Freedom on my mind: the Columbia documentary history of the African American experience

Ch. 1. Women and Gender

1. Selected Speeches / Sojourner Truth

2. Jealous Mistress / Harriet Ann Jacobs

3. Womanhood: A Vital Element in the Regeneration and Progress of a Race / Anna Julia Cooper

4. Damnation of Women / W. E. B. Du Bois

5. Women's Most Serious Problem / Alice Moore Dunbar-Nelson

6. On Being Young - A Woman - and Colored / Marita Bonner

7. Century of Progress of Negro Women / Mary McLeod Bethune

8. To All Black Women, from All Black Men / Eldridge Cleaver

9. Double Jeopardy: To Be Black and Female / Frances Beal

10. Feminism and Black Liberation / Audre Lorde

11. Approaching Obsolescence of Housework / Angela Davis

12. Statement of Anita Hill to the Senate Judiciary Committee, October 11, 1991 / Anita Hill

13. Establishing Black Feminism / Barbara Smith

14. Toward a Black Feminist Liberation Agenda: Race Gender and Violence / Kristen Clarke

Ch. 2. Kinship and Community

1. Kidnappers! / Lewis Williamson

2. To His Son, 2/2/1850 / William J. Walker

3. Childhood / Harriet Jacobs

4. For My People / Margaret Walker

5. Untitled Excerpt from Writings About her Childhood / Ella Baker

6. Notes of a Native Son / James Baldwin

7. Playing Hardball / Henry Louis Gates

8. From a Black Woman to a Black Man / Maya Angelou

9. In My Father's House / Manning Marable

10. Kwanzaa and the Ethics of Sharing: Forging Our Future in a New Era / Maulana Karenga

Ch. 3. Imagining the Black World

1. Poems / Phillis Wheatley

2. Argument for Colonization / John Russwurm

3. Ethiopia / Frances Ellen Watkins Harper

4. West India Emancipation / Frederick Douglass

5. American Negro and His Fatherland / Henry McNeal Turner

6. Declaration of the Rights of Negro Peoples of the World / Marcus Garvey

7. Heritage / Countee Cullen

8. Writings / Paul Robeson

9. Letters from Abroad / Malcolm X

10. Selected Essays / Audre Lorde

11. "The Continuity of Struggle" / Assata Shakur

Ch. 4. Political Leadership and Social Protest

1. Petitions: Petition of the Africans, Living in Boston, Felix; Anonymous Appeal to William, Earl of Dartmouth; and The Earliest Extant Negro Petition to Congress / Jupiter Nicholson, Jacob Nicholson, Joe Albert and Thomas Pritchet

2. Letter to Thomas Jefferson / Benjamin Banneker

3. Oration on the Abolition of the Slave Trade / Peter Williams, Jr.

4. Editorial from the First Edition of Freedom's Journal / Samuel Cornish and John Russwurm

5. Men of Color, To Arms! / Frederick Douglass

6. Speech to the Georgia Legislature / Henry McNeal Turner

7. Letter of Nimrod Rowley to Abraham Lincoln, August 1864

8. Address Delivered at the Centennial Anniversary of the Pennsylvania Society for Promoting the Abolition of Slavery / Frances Ellen Watkins Harper

9. Letter to the Editor of the Birmingham Age-Herald / Booker T. Washington

10. Of Mr. Booker T. Washington and Others / W. E. B. Du Bois

11. Selected Poems / Claude McKay

12. Letter from a Birmingham Jail / Martin Luther King, Jr.

13. From Protest to Politics / Bayard Rustin

14. Business of America is War, and It Is Time for a Change / Shirley Chisholm

15. Struggle Continues / Jesse Jackson

Ch. 5. In Pursuit of Justice

1. Speech on the Fugitive Slave Bill / Samuel Rinngold Ward

2. Hannah Johnson to Abraham Lincoln, July 31, 1863

3. Sojourner Truth: Extracts from Her Lecture on Capital Punishment

4. Lynch Law in All Its Phases / Ida B. Wells-Barnett

5. Songs of the Prison Plantation

6. Lynching / Claude McKay

7. Freedom Songs

8. To Praise Our Bridges / Fannie Lou Hamer

9. Resistant Spirit / Robert Williams

10. Life In Prison / George Jackson

11. Legacy of George Jackson / Angela Davis

12. B-Block Days and Nightmares / Mumia Abu-Jamal

Ch. 6. Work, Labor, and Economic Development

1. Work Songs

2. Industrial Education for the Negro / Thomas McCants Stewart

3. Harvest Song / Jean Toomer

4. Song to a Negro Wash-woman / Langston Hughes

5. Why Should We March? / A. Philip Randolph

6. Black Boy: A Record of Childhood and Youth / Richard Wright

7. Giant Step Toward Unity / William Simons

8. All God's Dangers / Ned Cobb

Ch. 7. Vision of Democracy

1. America / James Monroe Whitfield

2. On American "Democracy" and the Negro / Robert Purvis

3. Negro Patriotism and Devotion / Kelly Miller

4. Our Democracy and the Ballot / James Weldon Johnson

5. Shame of America / Archibald Grimke

6. Kind of Democracy the Negro Race Expects / William Pickens

7. Selected Poems / Lanston Hughes

8. I, Too, Am American / Paul Robeson

9. American Dream and the American Negro / James Baldwin

10. Who Then Will Speak for the Common Good? / Barbara Jordan

Ch. 8. Popular Culture

1. Folk Tales

2. Prize Fighter, editorial in Crisis

3. Negro Spirituals / Alain Locke

4. Dilemma of the Negro Author / James Weldon Johnson

5. It Don't Mean a Thing (If It Ain't Got That Swing) / Duke Ellington

6. High Tide in Harlem / Richard Wright

7. Revolution Will Not Be Televised / Gil Scott-Heron

8. Where Are the Films About Real Black Men and Women? / Ellen Holly

9. Signifying Monkey / Henry Louis Gates, Jr.

10. What America Would Be Like Without Blacks / Ralph Ellison

11. O. J. Simpson and Our Trial by Fire / Michael Eric Dyson

Ch. 9. Faith and Spirituality

1. Spirituals

2. Spiritual Song / Richard Allen

3. Thanksgiving Sermon / Absalom Jones

4. Excerpt from Clotel / William Wells Brown

5. Excerpt from A Brand Plucked from the Fire / Julia A. Foote

6. Antebellum Sermon / Paul Laurence Dunbar

7. Writings / Fenton Johnson

8. Go Down Death / James Weldon Johnson

9. Faith Hasn't Got No Eyes / Zora Neale Hurston

10. Salvation / Langston Hughes

11. Most Durable Power / Martin Luther King, Jr.

12. Black Theology and Black Power / James H. Cone

13. Black Church and Socialist Politics / Cornel West

14. Torchlight for America / Louis Farrakhan.