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Title
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Let Nobody Turn Us Around: Voices of Resistance, Reform, and Renewal: An African American Anthology (2nd ed.)
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This edition
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"Let Nobody Turn Us Around: Voices of Resistance, Reform, and Renewal: An African American Anthology" . Ed. Manning Marable and Leith Mullings. 2nd ed. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2009. xxix+676 pp.
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Table of contents
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[Items new to this edition are marked with an asterisk in parentheses (*). Some items that were included in the first edition have been dropped here.]
● Manning Marable and Leith Mullings / Preface to the First Edition
● Manning Marable and Leith Mullings / Preface to the Second Edition (*)
● Manning Marable and Leith Mullings / Introduction: Resistance, Reform, and Renewal in the Black Experience
Section One: Foundations: Slavery and Abolitionism, 1768-1861
● Phillis Wheatley / On Being Brought from Africa to America (1768) (*)
● Olaudah Equiano / “The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano” (1789)
● Prince Hall / “Thus Doth Ethiopia Stretch Forth Her Hand from Slavery, to Freedom and Equality” (1797)
● Richard Allen / The Founding of the African Methodist Episcopal Church (1816)
● David Walker / David Walker’s “Appeal” (1829-1830)
● The Statement of Nat Turner (1831)
● Slaves Are Prohibited to Read and Write by Law
● Maria W. Stewart / “What If I Am a Woman?” (1833)
● A Slave Denied the Rights to Marry (Letter of Milo Thompson, Slave) (1834)
● The Selling of Slaves (Advertisement) (1835)
● Solomon Northrup / Solomon Northrup Describes a New Orleans Slave Auction (1841)
● Cinque and the Amistad Revolt (1841)
● Henry Highland Garnet / “Let Your Motto Be Resistance!” (1843)
● William Wells Brown / “Slavery as It Is” (1847)
● Sojourner Truth / “A’n’t I a Woman?” (1851)
● Mary Ann Shadd Cary / A Plea for Emigration, or, Notes of Canada West (1852) (*)
● Martin R. Delany / A Black Nationalist Manifesto (1852)
● Frederick Douglass / “What to the Slave Is the Fourth of July?” (1852)
● “No Rights That a White Man Is Bound to Respect”: The Dred Scott Case and Its Aftermath
● John S. Rock / “Whenever the Colored Man Is Elevated, It Will Be by His Own Exertions” (1858)
● The Spirituals / “Go Down, Moses”
● The Spirituals / “Didn’t My Lord Deliver Daniel”
Section Two: Reconstruction and Reaction: The Aftermath of Slavery and the Dawn of Segregation, 1861-1915
● Frederick Douglass / “What the Black Man Wants” (1865)
● Henry McNeal Turner, Black Christian Nationalist
● Black Urban Workers during Reconstruction / Anonymous Document on the National Colored Labor Convention (1869)
● Black Urban Workers during Reconstruction / New York Tribune Article on African-American Workers (1870)
● T. Thomas Fortune / “Labor and Capital Are in Deadly Conflict” (1886)
● Edward Wilmot Blyden / Edward Wilmot Blyden and the African Diaspora
● Alexander Crummell / “The Democratic Idea Is Humanity” (1888)
● Anna Julia Cooper / “A Voice from the South” (1892)
● Mary Church Terrell and Josephine St. Pierre Ruffin / The National Association of Colored Women: Mary Church Terrell and Josephine St. Pierre Ruffin
● Paul Lawrence Dunbar / “I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings”
● Booker T. Washington / Booker T. Washington and the Politics of Accommodation: “Atlanta Exposition Address”
● Booker T. Washington / Booker T. Washington and the Politics of Accommodation: “My View of Segregation Laws”
● William Monroe Trotter / William Monroe Trotter and the Boston Guardian
● Anon. / Race and the Southern Worker: “A Negro Woman Speaks”
● Anon. / Race and the Southern Worker: “The Race Question a Class Question”
● Anon. / Race and the Southern Worker: “Negro Workers!”
● Ida B. Wells-Barnett, Crusader for Justice
● William Edward Burghardt Du Bois / Excerpts from “The Conversation of Races”
● William Edward Burghardt Du Bois / Excerpts from The Souls of Black Folk
● The Niagara Movement (1905)
● Hubert Henry Harrison, Black Revolutionary Nationalist
Section Three: From Plantation to Ghetto: The Great Migration, Harlem Renaissance, and World War, 1915-1954
● W.E.B. Du Bois / Black Conflict over World War I: “Close Ranks”
● Hubert H. Harrison / Black Conflict over World War I: “The Descent of Du Bois”
● W.E.B. Du Bois / Black Conflict over World War I: “Returning Soldiers”
● Claude McKay / “If We Must Die” (1919)
● Cyril V. Briggs / Black Bolsheviks: Cyril V. Briggs and Claude McKay: “What the African Blood Brotherhood Stands For”
Claude McKay / Black Bolsheviks: Cyril V. Briggs and Claude McKay: “Soviet Russia and the Negro”
● Marcus Garvey / Marcus Garvey and the Universal Negro Improvement Association: “Declaration of Rights of the Negro Peoples of the World”
● Marcus Garvey / Marcus Garvey and the Universal Negro Improvement Association: “An Appeal to the Conscience of the Black Race to See Itself”
● Amy Euphemia Jacques Garvey / “Women as Leaders” (1925)
● Langston Hughes / Langston Hughes and the Harlem Renaissance: “The Negro Artists and the Racial Mountain”
● Langston Hughes / Langston Hughes and the Harlem Renaissance: “My America”
● Langston Hughes / Langston Hughes and the Harlem Renaissance: Poems
● Alice Moore Dunbar-Nelson / “The Negro Woman and the Ballot” (1927)
● James Weldon Johnson / James Weldon Johnson and Harlem in the 1920s: “Harlem: The Culture Capital”
● Black Workers in the Great Depression
● The Scottsboro Trials, 1930s
● Angelo Herndon / “You Cannot Kill the Working Class,” 1933: “Speech to the Jury, January 17, 1933”
● Angelo Herndon / “You Cannot Kill the Working Class,” 1933: Excerpt from You Cannot Kill the Working Class
● Hosea Hudson, Black Communist Activist
● Mary McLeod Bethune / “Breaking the Bars to Brotherhood” (1935)
● Adam Clayton Powell, Jr. / Adam Clayton Powell, Jr., and the Fight for Black Employment in Harlem
● Elaine Ellis / Black Women Workers during the Great Depression: “Women of the Cotton Fields”
● Naomi Ward / Black Women Workers during the Great Depression: “I Am a Domestic”
● Southern Negro Youth Conference (1939)
● A. Philip Randolph / A. Philip Randolph and the Negro March on the Washington Movement, (1941)
● Charles Hamilton Houston / Charles Hamilton Houston and the War Effort among African Americans (1941)
● Claudia Jones / “An End to the Neglect of the Problems of the Negro Woman!” (1949)
● Paul Robeson / “The Negro Artist Looks Ahead” (1951)
● Thurgood Marshall / Thurgood Marshall: The Brown Decision and the Struggle for School Desegregation
Section Four: We Shall Overcome: The Second Reconstruction, 1954-1975
● Jo Ann Robinson / Rosa Parks, Jo Ann Robinson, and the Montgomery Bus Boycott, 1955-1956: Jo Ann Robinson’s Letter to the Mayor of Montgomery
● Anon. / Rosa Parks, Jo Ann Robinson, and the Montgomery Bus Boycott, 1955-1956: Interview with Rosa Parks
● Jo Ann Robinson / Rosa Parks, Jo Ann Robinson, and the Montgomery Bus Boycott, 1955-1956: Excerpts from Jo Ann Robinson’s Account of the Boycott
● Roy Wilkins / Roy Wilkins and the NAACP
● The Southern Christian Leadership Conference (1957)
● Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee and the Sit-In Movement (1960)
● Freedom Songs, 1960: “We Shall Overcome”
● Freedom Songs, 1960: “Ain’t Gonna Let Nobody Turn Me ‘Round”
● Ella Baker / “We Need Group-Centered Leadership”
● Martin Luther King, Jr. / Martin Luther King, Jr., and Nonviolence: Excerpt from “Nonviolence and Racial Justice” (1957)
● Martin Luther King, Jr. / Martin Luther King, Jr., and Nonviolence: “I Have a Dream” (1963)
● John R. Lewis / “The Revolution Is at Hand” (1963)
● W.E.B. Du Bois / “The Salvation of American Negroes Lies in Socialism”
● Fannie Lou Hamer / “The Special Plight and the Role of the Black Woman”
● “SNCC Position Paper: Women in the Movement” (1964)
● Elijah Muhammad / Elijah Muhammad and the Nation of Islam
● Malcolm X / Malcolm X and Revolutionary Black Nationalism: “The Ballot or the Bullet”
● Malcolm X / Malcolm X and Revolutionary Black Nationalism: “Statement of the Organization of Afro-American Unity”
● Stokely Carmichael / Black Power: “What We Want”
● Black Power: SNCC, “Position Paper on Black Power”
● Bayard Rustin / Black Power: “‘Black Power’ and Coalition Politics”
● Floyd McKissick / “CORE Endorses Black Power” (1967)
● Martin Luther King, Jr. / “To Atone for Our Sins and Errors in Vietnam” (1967)
● Huey P. Newton / Huey P. Newton and the Black Panther Party for Self-Defense
● Fred Hampton / “The People Have to Have the Power”
● Angela Y. Davis / “I Am Revolutionary Black Woman” (1970)
● “Our Thing Is DRUM!” (The League of Revolutionary Black Workers)
● Attica: “The Fury of Those Who Are Oppressed” (1971)
● The National Black Political Convention, Gary, Indiana (March 1972)
● Amiri Baraka / “There Is No Revolution Without the People”: “The Pan-African Party and the Black Nation” (1972)
● Amiri Baraka / “There Is No Revolution Without the People”: poem
● Henry Winston / “My Sight Is Gone But My Vision Remains”: “On Returning to the Struggle”
● Henry Winston / “My Sight Is Gone But My Vision Remains”: “A Letter to My Brothers and Sisters”
Section Five: The Future in the Present: Contemporary African-American Thought, 1975 to the Present
● Combahee River Collective Statement (1977)
● Assata Shakur / “Women in Prison: How We Are” (1978)
● Harold Washington / “It’s Our Turn” (1983)
● Audre Lorde / “I Am Your Sister” (1984)
● bell hooks / “Shaping Feminist Theory” (1984)
● Jesse Jackson / The Movement Against Apartheid: Jesse Jackson and Randall Robinson: “Don’t Adjust to Apartheid”
● Clarence Lusane and Randall Robinson / The Movement Against Apartheid: Jesse Jackson and Randall Robinson: “State of the U.S. Anti-Apartheid Movement: An Interview with Randall Robinson”
● Jesse Jackson / “Keep Hope Alive” (1988)
● Molefi Asante / “Afrocentricity” (1991)
● Barbara Ransby, Elsa Barkley Brown, and Deborah King / The Anita Hill—Clarence Thomas Controversy (1991): “African-American Women in Defense of Ourselves”
● June Jordan / The Anita Hill—Clarence Hill Controversy (1991): “Can I Get a Witness?”
● Cornel West / “Race Matters” (1991)
● Henry Louis Gates, Jr. / “Black Anti-Semitism” (1992)
● Jarvis Tyner / “Crime—Causes and Cures” (1994)
● Louis Farrakhan / Louis Farrakhan: The Million Man March (1995)
● Mumia Abu-Jamal / “A Voice from Death Row”
● “Let Justice Roll Down Like Waters,” (African-American Prisoners in Sing-Sing) (1998): “Statement by Sing Sing Prisoners”
● Michael J. Love / “Let Justice Roll Down Like Waters” (African-American Prisoners in Sing-Sing) (1998): “The Prison-Industrial Complex: An Investment in Failure”
● Willis L. Steele, Jr. / “Let Justice Roll Down Like Waters,” (African-American Prisoners in Sing-Sing) (1998): “River Hudson”
● Black Radical Congress (1998): “Principles of Unity”
● Black Radical Congress (1998): “The Struggle Continues: Setting a Black Liberation Agenda for the 21st Century”
● Black Radical Congress (1998): “The Freedom Agenda”
● Mary Frances Berry / 2000 Presidential Election: Letter to Governor Bush from Chairperson Mary Frances Berry (2001) (*)
● Hip-Hop Action Summit Network / Hip-Hop Activism: "What We Want" Statement (2001) (*)
● Hip-Hop Activism: "Tookie Protocol for Peace" (2004) (*)
● World Conference Against Racism--Durban, South Africa (*)
● Barbara Lee / African Americans Respond to Terrorism and War: Barbara Lee's Stand (2001) (*)
● Iraq Veterans Against the War / African Americans Respond to Terrorism and War: 10 Points (2001) (*)
● Bill Cosby / The Cosby vs. Dyson Debate, 2004-2005: Summary of "Dr. Bill Cosby Speaks at the 50th Anniversary Commemoration of the Brown vs. Topeka Board of Education Supreme Court Decision" (*)
● Michael Eric Dyson / The Cosby vs. Dyson Debate, 2004-2005: Excerpt from "Is Bill Cosby Right?: or Has the Black Middle Class Lost Its Mind?" (*)
● U.S. Senate Resolution Against Lynching (2005) (*)
● Malik Rahim / Hurricane Katrina Crisis, 2005: "This Is Criminal": Malik Rahim Reports from New Orleans (2005) (*)
● Barack Obama / Barack Obama's Presidential Campaign, 2007-2008: Excerpt from Obama's National Democratic Party Convention Speech (2004) (*)
● Barack Obama / Barack Obama's Presidential Campaign, 2007-2008: "A More Perfect Union" (2008) (*)
● Permissions
● Index
● About the Editors
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About the anthology
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This edition drops some items from the first edition (2000) and adds a few new items. The newly added items are marked with an asterisk in the table of contents listed above.
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Item Number
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A0619
Let Nobody Turn Us Around: Voices of Resistance, Reform, and Renewal: An African American Anthology
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