1st Edition

African-American Social and Political Thought 1850-1920

626 Pages

by Routledge

626 Pages

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628 Pages

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In bringing together the most characteristic and serious writings by black scholars, authors, journalists, and educators from the years that preceded the modem civil rights movement, 'African-American Social and Political Thought' provides a comprehensive guide to the range and diversity of black thought. The volume offers a deep history of how the terms of contemporary debate over the future of... Read more

INTRODUCTION TO THE TRANSACTION EDITION
FOREWORD
PREFACE
INTRODUCTION TO THE ORIGINAL EDITION: A GUIDE TO THE MATERIALS

PART I Emigration

MARTIN R . DELANY
   The Condition, Elevation, Emigration, and Destiny
       of the Colored People of the United States
       (abridged)
   Official Report of the Niger Valley Exploring
       Party (excerpt)
EDWARD W. BLYDEN
   The Call of Providence to the D e s c e h t s of
       Africa in America
   The African Problem and the Method of Its Solution
JAMES T. HOLLY
   A Vindication of the Cafiacity of the Negro Race
       for Self-Government a d Civilized Progress
ALEXANDER CRUMMELL
   The Relations and Duties of Free Colored Men in
       America to Africa (excerpt)
   The Race Problem in America
AFRICAN CIVILIZATION SOCIETY
   Constitution

Part II Assimilation

HENRY HIGHLAND GARNET
   The Past and the Present Condition, a d the Destiny
   of the Colored Race (excerpt)
FREDERICK DOUGLASS
   What Are the Colored People Doing for Themselves?
   An Address to the Colored People of the United States
   Prejudice Not Natural
   The Nature of Slavery
   Letter to Harriet Beecher Stowe
   The Claims of the Negro Ethnologically Considered
   The Doom of the Black Power
   Speech on the Dred Scott Decision
   African Civilization Society
   The Present and Future of the Colored Race in America
   What the Black Man Wants
   Address before the Tennessee Colored Agricultural
       and Mechanical Association
   The Civil Rights Case
   The Future of the Negro
   The Future of the Colored Race
   The Nation's Problem
   The Folly of Colonization
T. THOMAS FORTUNE
   Education
   Political Independence of the Negro
   Solution of the Political Problem
BOOKER T. WASHINGTON
   The Educational Outlook in the South
   Atlanta Exposition Address
   Our New Citizen
   Democracy and Education
   Address Delivered at Hampton Institute
   Letter to the Louisiana State Constitutional Convention
   An Interview on the Hardwick Bill
   On Making Our Race Life Count in the Life of the Nation
   Early Problems of Freedom
   Progress of the American Negro
   The Negro and the Labor Problem of the South
   The Fruits of Industrial Truining
   The American Negro and His Economic Value
   The Intellectuals and the Boston Mob
   The Mistakes and the Future of Negro Education
   Is the Negro Having a Fair Chance?
   My View of Segregation Laws
ARCHIBALD H. GRIMKE
   Modern Industrialism and the Negroes of the United States

PART III Cultural Nationalism

WILLIAM EDWARD BURGHARDT DU BOIS
   The Conservation of Races
   The Philadelphia Negro (excerpt)
   Of Mr. Booker T. Washington and Others
   The Talented Tenth
   Declaration of Principles of the Niagara Movement
   Resolutions of the Niagara Movement
   The Evolution of the Race Problem

PART IV The Revival of Political Nationalism

MARCUS GARVEY
   Race Assimilation
   The True Solution of the Negro Problem
   An Appeal to the Soul of White America
   Racial Reforms and Reformers
   Who and What Is a Negro?
   An Appeal to the Conscience of the Black Race to See Itself
   The Negro's Place in World Reorganization
   Aims and Objects of Mouement for Solution of Negro Problem
   Racial Ideals
Sources and Acknowledgments
Index