Great Documents in Black American History
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Title
Great Documents in Black American History
This edition
"Great Documents in Black American History." Ed. George Ducas with Charles Van Doren. Intro. C. Eric Lincoln. New York: Praeger, 1970.
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Table of contents
● C. Eric Lincoln / Introduction
● John Woolman / Some Considerations on the Keeping of Negroes
● Thomas Jefferson / Notes on the State of Virginia
● Benjamin Banneker / Letter from Benjamin Banneker to the Secretary of State with His Answer
● "Othello" / Essay on Negro Slavery
● Gustavus Vassa / The Life of Olaudah Equiano, the African
● James Forten (and Russell Perrott?) / An Address to the Inhabitants of Philadelphia Against the Colonization Society
● David Walker / Appeal, in Four Articles, Together with a Preamble to the Colored Citizens of the World, but in Particular, and Very Expressly to Those of the United States of America
● Nat Turner / The Confessions of Nat Turner, the Leader of the Late Insurrection in Southampton, Va., as Fully and Voluntarily Made to Thomas R. Gray
● Frederick Douglass / Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave, Written by Himself [excerpt]
● Martin Robison Delany / The Condition, Elevation, Emigration, and Destiny of the Colored People of the United States
● Booker T. Washington / Speech at the Atlanta Exposition and What I Am Trying to Do
● W. E. Burghardt Du Bois / Of Mr. Booker T. Washington and Others and The Colored World Within
● Marcus Garvey / Philosophy and Opinions
● Alain Locke / The New Negro
● Langston Hughes / The Negro Artist and the Racial Mountain
● Richard Wright / How "Bigger" Was Born
● Earl Warren / Brown et al. v. Board of Education of Topeka et al.
● E. Franklin Frazier / Black Bourgeoisie
● Martin Luther King, Jr. / Letter from Birmingham Jail
● James Baldwin / My Dungeon Shook: Letter to My Nephew on the One Hundredth Anniversary of the Emancipation
● Malcolm X / Speech at the Harvard Law School Forum of December 16, 1964
● LeRoi Jones / The Legacy of Malcolm X, and the Coming of Age of the Black Nation
Sources
Index
● John Woolman / Some Considerations on the Keeping of Negroes
● Thomas Jefferson / Notes on the State of Virginia
● Benjamin Banneker / Letter from Benjamin Banneker to the Secretary of State with His Answer
● "Othello" / Essay on Negro Slavery
● Gustavus Vassa / The Life of Olaudah Equiano, the African
● James Forten (and Russell Perrott?) / An Address to the Inhabitants of Philadelphia Against the Colonization Society
● David Walker / Appeal, in Four Articles, Together with a Preamble to the Colored Citizens of the World, but in Particular, and Very Expressly to Those of the United States of America
● Nat Turner / The Confessions of Nat Turner, the Leader of the Late Insurrection in Southampton, Va., as Fully and Voluntarily Made to Thomas R. Gray
● Frederick Douglass / Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave, Written by Himself [excerpt]
● Martin Robison Delany / The Condition, Elevation, Emigration, and Destiny of the Colored People of the United States
● Booker T. Washington / Speech at the Atlanta Exposition and What I Am Trying to Do
● W. E. Burghardt Du Bois / Of Mr. Booker T. Washington and Others and The Colored World Within
● Marcus Garvey / Philosophy and Opinions
● Alain Locke / The New Negro
● Langston Hughes / The Negro Artist and the Racial Mountain
● Richard Wright / How "Bigger" Was Born
● Earl Warren / Brown et al. v. Board of Education of Topeka et al.
● E. Franklin Frazier / Black Bourgeoisie
● Martin Luther King, Jr. / Letter from Birmingham Jail
● James Baldwin / My Dungeon Shook: Letter to My Nephew on the One Hundredth Anniversary of the Emancipation
● Malcolm X / Speech at the Harvard Law School Forum of December 16, 1964
● LeRoi Jones / The Legacy of Malcolm X, and the Coming of Age of the Black Nation
Sources
Index
Item Number
A0556