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Freedom on my mind: the Columbia documentary history of the African American experience
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Columbia University Press
Publication Date
c2003
Language
English
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From the Book
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.
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