Daily life of African Americans in primary documents. (2020)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Herbert C. Covey and Dwight Eisnach, editors.
• Editors: Covey, Herbert C; Eisnach, Dwight
• Contents: Acknowledgments, Set Introduction, Chronology of Selected Events, 1865–2020, PART I HISTORICAL OVERVIEW, 1865–2020THE COLLAPSE OF THE CONFEDERACY AND RECONSTRUCTION (1865–1877), THE JIM CROW SOUTH, MASS MIGRATIONS, PROTESTS AND MASSACRES, THE GREAT DEPRESSION, WORLD WAR II, AND THE 1940s, 1950s–1970s, 1980s–1990s, 2000–2020, PART II DOMESTIC LIFELIFE AFTER SLAVERY, SUCCESSFUL BLACK COMMUNITIES, 1. "Boley (An Exclusively Negro Town in Oklahoma), " R. Edgar Iles (1925), RACE MASSACRES, 2. The Freedmen's Bureau Report on the Memphis Race Riots of 1866, T. W. Gilbreth, May 22 (1866), 3. The Tulsa Race Riot, B. C. Franklin (1921), DAILY LIFE UNDER JIM CROW, 4. "The Ethics of Living Jim Crow: An Autobiographical Sketch, " Richard Wright (1937), 5. "'My Dungeon Shook': A Letter to My Nephew, " James Baldwin, January 1 (1962), DAILY LIFE UNDER SEGREGATION, 6. "Editorial, Intermarriage, " W. E. B. Du Bois, February 5 (1913), 7. Senator Hiram Revels Calls for Desegregation of D.C. Schools (1871), 8. M. Jay Lockard, Account of School Boycott and Shootings at the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party Center, August 16 (1965), 9. Massachusetts Black Caucus Letter to Judge Arthur Garrity Regarding the Dangers of School Busing in Boston (1974), PART III ECONOMIC AND MATERIAL LIFEECONOMIC LIFE AFTER SLAVERY, THE GREAT DEPRESSION, AFRICAN AMERICAN SOCIOECONOMIC STATUS, FOOD, CLOTHING, HEALTH CARE, 1. Special Field Orders No. 15—"Forty Acres and a Mule, " General William Tecumseh Sherman, January 16 (1865), 2. Freedmen's Contract between Isham G. Bailey and Freedmen Cooper Hughs and Charles Roberts, January 1 (1867), 3. "The Negro as He Really Is, " W. E. B. Du Bois (1901), 4. Nine Indicted for Peonage, June 3 (1909), 5. More Slavery at the South, by a Negro Nurse, January 25 (1912), 6. Interview with Dave Stephens, Tenant Farmer—North Carolina, September 18 (1938), LABOR UNIONS, 7. "Knocks Pullman Co., " May 22 (1915), BUSINESS SUCCESS, 8. "The Negro in Business, " W. E. B. Du Bois (1899), 9. Madam Walker Comments at the Annual Convention of the National Negro Business League, Chicago (1912), SOCIOECONOMIC STATUS of BLACK AMERICANS, 10. The Colored Woman as Bread Winner, Mary Ovington (1911), 11. Economic Justice in the Black Community, U.S. House of Representatives, Monday, February 5 (2018), 12. Statistical Snapshot of Census Bureau Estimates for African Americans (2018), PART IV INTELLECTUAL LIFETHE GREAT DEBATE, 1. "Atlanta Compromise Speech, " Booker T. Washington, September 18 (1895), 2. "Address to the Country, " W. E. B. Du Bois, August 16 (1900), 3. An Open Letter to College Men, The Meaning of the Niagara Movement and the Junior Niagara Movement, Mason A. Hawkins (1909), EDUCATION AND LEARNING, 4. Education in the Southern States, Harper's Weekly, November 9 (1867), 5. "What Does American Democracy Mean to Me?" America's Town Meeting of the Air, New York City, Mary McLeod Bethune, November 23 (1939), CONTRIBUTIONS TO SCIENCE AND CULTURE, 6. What Mrs. Fisher Knows about Old Southern Cooking, Abby Fisher (1881), 7. African American Inventors Secure 1, 000 Patents from Emancipation to 1908 (1908), 8. How to Grow the Peanut and 105 Ways of Preparing It for Human Consumption, George Washington Carver (1918/1925), HARLEM RENAISSANCE AND THE GREAT MIGRATION, 9. Migrant Letters to The Chicago Defender and the Great Migration (1917), 10. "If We Must Die, " Claude McKay (1919), 11. "Black Woman, " Georgia Douglas Johnson (1922), 12. The New Negro, Alain Locke (1925), 13. "Ballad of Booker T., " Langston Hughes (1941), PART V POLITICAL LIFELAWS, 1. The Civil War Amendments (1865–1870), 2. Speech of Honorable T. B. Van Buren, on the Bill to Ratify the Amendment to the Constitution of the United States Prohibiting Slavery: In the New York House of Assembly, March 15 (1865), 3. U.S. House of Representatives Thirteenth Amendment Speech by Thaddeus Stevens, January 13 (1865), 4. Albert S. Pillsbury's Letter of Witnessing the Passage of the Thirteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution (1865), BLACK CODES, 5. Black Code of South Carolina (1865), RECONSTRUCTION, 6. A Black Man and a White Man Exchange Views on Reconstruction (1867), 7. Letter on Ku Klux Klan Activities. Some of the Outrages, Letter from Judge Tourgée to Senator Abbott (1870), ELECTED AFRICAN AMERICANS, 8. The Political Trials of Robert Smalls (1878), 9. Speech Made in Reply to an Attack upon the Colored State Legislators of South Carolina by Representative Cox of New York, Joseph H. Rainey (1871), 10. Congressman George H. White's Farewell Address to Congress (1896), 11. The Conflict in Vietnam, Shirley Chisholm (1969), 12. Statement on the Articles of Impeachment, July 25, 1974, House Judiciary Committee, Representative Barbara Charline Jordan (1974), 13. A More Perfect Union, Senator Barrack Obama (2008), BLACK POWER, 14. The Basis of Black Power, Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee Position Paper on White Participation (1966), 15. Ten-Point Program and Platform of the Black Student Unions, February (1969), 16. Bobby G. Seale's Handwritten Request for Legal Representation at the Chicago 8 Trial (1969), PART VI THE STRUGGLE FOR CIVIL RIGHTSCIVIL RIGHTS ORGANIZATIONS, THE DECADE OF PROTEST, CIVIL RIGHTS MARTYRS, COURT CASES, 1. The Dissenting Opinion of Justice John Marshall Harlan in Plessey v. Ferguson (1896), 2. Excerpts from the Testimony of Ruby Bates at the Heywood Patterson Scottsboro Boys Trial (1933), 3. U.S. Supreme Court Opinion on Brown v. Board of Education, Topeka, Kansas (1954), LYNCHING, 4. "Lynching and the Excuse for It, " Ida B. Wells Barnett (1901), 5. Letter, Eleanor Roosevelt to Walter Francis White Detailing the First Lady's Lobbying Efforts for Federal Action against Lynching, March 19 (1936), 6. "40, 000 at Till Youth's Funeral: Two Men Held on Murder Indictment" (1955), ASSASINATIONS, 7. Speech on Assassination of Martin Luther King Jr., Robert F. Kennedy (1968), VOTING RIGHTS, 8. First African American Voter in New York, March 1, 1901, Died at the Age of 117 Years, Born a Slave in Ulster County—The First Negro Voter in This State, 9. Sections 2 and 5 of the Voting Rights Act of 1965, MEDICAL EXPERIMENTATION, 10. The Manhattan District Experiments, The Case of Ebb Cade (1945), CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT, 11. General Rufus B. Saxton on Freed Blacks' Desire to Acquire Arms, February 21 (1866), 12. "Racial Segregation, " William Pickens Field (1927), 13. Montgomery Police Department, Arrest Warrant for Rosa Parks (1955), 14. House Committee on Un-American Activities (HUAC) Hearings and African Americans (1956), 15. Radio and Television Report to the American People on Civil Rights, President John F. Kennedy, June 11, 1963, 16. Civil Rights Act Public Law 88-352 (78 Stat. 241) (1964), POLICE AND CRIMINAL JUSTICE RELATIONS, 17. Excerpts from Federal Bureau of Investigation of Malcolm X (1965), 18. Vermont High School Students Speak Out about Police Brutality (1999), PART VII MILITARY LIFEMILITARY INTERVENTION IN CIVIL AFFAIRS, 1. The Brownsville "Affray" (1906), MILITARY SERVICE AND SEGREGATION, 2. Tribute to the Negro Soldier, General John J. Pershing (1919), 3. Against Discrimination, Honorable Newton D. Baker, Secretary of War (1919), 4. Transcript of Executive Order 9981: Desegregation of the Armed Forces, President Harry Truman (1948), 5. Interview with Martha Putney, World War II Veteran, March 26 (2004), 6. Interview with George Dunn, Vietnam Veteran August 12 (2003), PART VIII LEISURE LIFEENTERTAINMENT, 1. Lyrics to "Nobody" and "The Phrenologist Coon" (1905 and 1901), 2. Amusements for Young People, W. E. B. Du Bois (1914), 3. Black Entertainers in the Age of Swing, Lena Horne (1920s–1940s), 4. The Negro Travelers' Green Book, Victor H. Green (1956), 5. "Ice Cube on Ghostwriting, Diss Tracks and Straight Outta Compton's Timeliness" (2015), LITERATURE, 6. "We Wear the Mask, " Paul Laurence Dunbar (1895), 7. Three Negro Poets: George M. Horton, Mrs. Francis Ellen Watkins Harper, and Albery A. Whitman, Benjamin Brawley (1917), 8. "Still I Rise, " Maya Angelou (1994), MUSIC, 9. "Lift Ev'ry Voice and Sing, " James Weldon Johnson (1900), 10. "Memphis Blues, " W. C. Handy (1912), SPORTS, PART IX RELIGIOUS LIFEALTERNATIVES TO CHRISTIANITY, THE BLACK CHURCH IN THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY, AFRICAN AMERICAN SPIRITUALS, 1. "Swing Low, Sweet Chariot, " Wallace Willis (1871), 2. "Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child" (1918), SERMONS, 3. A Sermon upon the Doctrine of Sanctification, Elder Joseph Baysmore (1887), 4. Black Religion in the Post-Reconstruction South, William Wells Brown (1880), Suggested Readings, Index, About the Editors.
• Publisher Details: New York : Greenwood
• Publication Date: 2020
• Extent: 1 online resource (760 pages)
• Subjects: 305.896/073; Social Science -- Ethnic Studies -- African American Studies; African Americans -- Social conditions -- Sources; African Americans -- Social life and customs -- Sources; African Americans -- History -- Sources; Social Science -- Discrimination & Race Relations; History
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9798216071334
• Related ISBNs: 9781440866647
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