What Country Have I?: Political Writings by Black Americans

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What Country Have I?: Political Writings by Black Americans

This edition

"What Country Have I?: Political Writings by Black Americans." Comp. Herbert J. Storing. New York: St. Martin's P, 1970. x+235 pp.

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Table of contents

● A. Washington / African colonization
● Frederick Douglass / Fourth of July oration (abridged)
● Frederick Douglass / The destiny of colored Americans
● Frederick Douglass / What are the colored people doing for themselves?
● Frederick Douglass / Oration in memory of Abraham Lincoln
● Booker T. Washington / Atlanta Exposition address
● Booker T. Washington / Our new citizen
● Booker T. Washington / Democracy and education
● W. E. B. Du Bois / The conservation of races
● W. E. B. Du Bois / Of our spiritual strivings
● W. E. B. Du Bois / Of Mr. Booker T. Washington and others
● W. E. B. Du Bois / The talented tenth (excerpt)
● J. W. Johnson / Isolation or integration?
● Martin Luther King, Jr. / Pilgrimage to nonviolence
● Martin Luther King, Jr. / Letter from Birmingham jail
● J. H. Jackson / Annual address to the National Baptist Convention, 1964 (abridged)
● Malcolm X / The ballot or the bullet
● Stokely Carmichael and Charles V. Hamilton / Black power: its need and substance
● Eldridge Cleaver / The land question
● Julius Lester / Look out, Whitey! Black power's goin' get your mama
● Albert B. Cleage, Jr. / "We are God's chosen people"
● James Baldwin / Stranger in the village
Bibliography (p. 227-230).

See also

Other relevant writings by the editor, Herbert J. Storing, include:
● "Frederick Douglass." "American Political Thought: The Philosophic Dimensions of American Statesmanship." Ed. Morton J. Frisch and Richard G. Stevens. Second edition. Itasca, IL: Peacock, 1983.
● "Slavery and the Moral Foundations of the American Republic." "Slavery and Its Consequences: The Constitution, Equality, and Race." Ed. Robert A. Goldwin and Art Kaufman. Waldorf, MD: AEI Press, 1988. (Also in Robert H. Horwitz, ed. "The Moral Foundations of the American Republic." Charlottesville, VA: University of Virginia Press, 1986; reprinted in 2001.)
● "The Founders and Slavery." "College" 28.2 (July 1976).
● "The School of Slavery: A Reconsideration of Booker T. Washington." "One Hundred Years of Emancipation." Ed. Robert A. Goldwin. Chicago: Rand McNally, 1964.

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A0564

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