Civil rights since 1787 : a reader on the Black struggle /
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Imprint: | New York : New York University Press, c2000. |
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Description: | xxi, 936 p. : ill. ; 26 cm. |
Language: | English |
Subject: | African Americans -- Civil rights -- History -- Sources. Civil rights movements -- United States -- History -- Sources. African Americans -- Civil rights. Civil rights movements. Race relations. United States -- Race relations -- Sources. United States. History. Sources. |
Format: | Print Book |
URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/4493485 |
Table of Contents:
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: It Didn't Start in 1954
- Part I. Slavery: America's First Compromise
- 1. Introduction: Original Sin
- 2. The International Slave Trade
- 3. Slavery, the Constitution, and the Founding Fathers
- 4. Our Pro-Slavery Constitution
- 5. Slave Religion, Rebellion, and Docility
- 6. 1787 Petition for Equal Educational Facilities
- 7. The Abolitionist Movement
- 8. Too Long Have Others Spoken for Us
- 9. Education for Black Women
- 10. Walker's Appeal
- 11. On African Rights and Liberty
- 12. The Liberator: Opening Editorial
- 13. An Address to the Slaves of the United States
- 14. Free Blacks and Suffrage
- 15. Silencing Debate: The Congressional Gag Rule
- 16. Equality before the Law
- 17. Free Blacks and the Fugitive Slave Act
- 18. The Fugitive Slave Law
- 19. What to the Slave Is the Fourth of July?
- 20. Dred Scott v. Sandford (1857)
- 21. Illinois No Longer a Free State
- 22. Literacy, Slavery, and Religion
- 23. Who Freed the Slaves?
- Part II. Reconstruction
- 24. Introduction: The Second American Revolution
- 25. The Second American Revolution
- 26. Schools for Freedom
- 27. The Southern Black Church
- 28. Forty Acres and a Mule: Special Field Order No. 15
- 29. A Proposal for Reconstruction
- 30. Woman's Rights
- 31. Woman Suffrage
- 32. Black Women during Reconstruction
- 33. Southern Discomfort
- 34. The Ku Klux Klan Conspiracy
- 35. Black Workers and Republicans in the South
- 36. The Reconstruction Myth
- 37. The Impeachment of President Andrew Johnson
- Part III. Segregation
- 38. Introduction: Separate and Unequal
- The Repression of Free Blacks
- 39. Plessy v. Ferguson (1896)
- 40. Newspapers on Plessy v. Ferguson
- 41. How Disenfranchisement Was Accomplished
- 42. Lynching
- 43. The Atlanta Massacre
- 44. The Race War in the North
- 45. Jim Crow and the Limits of Freedom, 1890-1940
- 46. Blacks and the First Red Scare
- 47. The Second Klan
- The Black and Progressive Response
- 48. Black Workers from Reconstruction to the Great Depression
- 49. The Atlanta Address
- 50. Of Mr. Booker T. Washington and Others
- 51. Report of the 1900 Pan-African Conference
- 52. The Niagara Movement Declaration of Principles
- 53. The Task for the Future
- 54. Returning Soldiers
- 55. Lynching a Domestic Question?
- 56. Address to President Wilson
- 57. The Higher Education of Women
- 58. Black Women and the Right to Vote
- 59. Woman Suffrage and the Fifteenth Amendment
- 60. Woman Suffrage and the Negro
- 61. The Great Migration
- 62. Migration and Political Power
- 63. The Objectives of the Universal Negro Improvement Association
- 64. The Garvey Milieu
- 65. The Scottsboro Case
- 66. Women and Lynching
- 67. Blacks and the New Deal
- 68. Mary McLeod Bethune and the Black Cabinet
- 69. Marian Anderson, Eleanor Roosevelt, and the D.A.R.
- 70. Blacks and the CIO
- 71. The Harlem Bus Boycott of 1941
- 72. The March on Washington Movement
- 73. Executive Order 8802: Establishing the FEPC
- 74. The Sharecroppers' Tale
- 75. The "Double V" Campaign
- 76. Nazi and Dixie Nordics
- 77. The Civil Rights Congress
- Part IV. The Second Reconstruction
- 78. Introduction: The Modern Civil Rights Movement
- The Legal Strategy
- 79. Charles Hamilton Houston and the NAACP Legal Strategy
- 80. The NAACP and Brown
- 81. Brown v. Board of Education (1954)
- 82. Mississippi Murders
- Labor Days
- 83. Labor, Radicals, and the Civil Rights Movement
- 84. Migration and Electoral Politics
- 85. To Secure These Rights
- 86. Executive Order 9981: Barring Segregation in the Armed Forces
- 87. The Second Red Scare: The Cold War in Black America
- 88. Remembering Jackie Robinson
- 89. Paul Robeson and the House Un-American Activities Committee
- 90. The Highlander School
- 91. If the Negro Wins, Labor Wins
- 92. CORE and the Pacifist Roots of Civil Rights
- The Churches' Hour
- 93. The Baton Rouge Bus Boycott
- 94. Rosa Parks and the Montgomery Bus Boycott
- 95. The Social Organization of Nonviolence
- 96. SCLC and "The Beloved Community"
- 97. On King's Influences and Borrowings
- 98. Women and Community Leadership
- 99. The Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee
- 100. SNCC Statement of Purpose
- 101. Suppose Not Negroes but Men of Property Were Being Beaten in Mississippi
- 102. Letter from Birmingham City Jail
- 103. Television Address on Civil Rights
- 104. What Really Happened at the March on Washington?
- 105. Which Side Is the Federal Government On?
- 106. I Have a Dream
- 107. Movie Myths about Mississippi Summer
- 108. Freedom Schools
- 109. The Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party
- 110. Testimony before the 1964 DNC Credentials Committee
- 111. Civil Rights and Black Protest Music
- 112. From Protest to Politics
- 113. The Selma Movement and the Voting Rights Act of 1965
- 114. Address on Voting Rights
- Economic Justice: The North Has Problems Too
- 115. Report of the National Advisory Commission on Civil Disorders
- 116. The Watts Uprising
- 117. The Great Society
- 118. The SCLC and Chicago
- 119. Resurrection City and the Poor People's Campaign
- 120. The Welfare Rights Movement
- Black Power
- 121. We Must Have Justice
- 122. The Ballot or the Bullet
- 123. Malcolm and Martin: A Common Solution
- 124. What We Want
- 125. The Black Panther Party Ten-Point Program
- 126. The Black Panther Party
- 127. Women and the Black Panther Party
- 128. Black Power and Labor
- Electoral and Street Politics
- 129. The Nixon Administration and Civil Rights
- 130. The Gary Black Political Convention of 1972
- 131. Police Violence and Riots
- 132. Rodney King, Police Brutality, and Riots
- 133. Black Power in the Age of Jackson
- 134. Race and the Democrats
- 135. Mississippi Abolishes Slavery
- 136. Undercounting Minorities
- 137. The Color of Money
- Discrimination: Ongoing Examples
- 138. The Possessive Investment in Whiteness
- 139. Discrimination and Racism Continue
- 140. Education's "Savage Inequalities"
- 141. Shopping While Black
- 142. Environmental Racism
- Affirmative Action
- 143. Affirmative Action and History
- 144. The Great White Myth
- 145. How the Press Frames Affirmative Action
- 146. Position Paper on Affirmative Action
- Part V. Backlash Redux
- 147. Introduction: Redemption II
- The Roots of Backlash
- 148. The Southern Manifesto
- 149. George Wallace and the Roots of Modern Republicanism
- 150. Segregation Forever
- 151. The Southern Strategy
- 152. The Nixon That Black Folks Knew
- 153. The FBI, COINTELPRO, and the Repression of Civil Rights
- 154. The Urban Fiscal Crisis and the Rebirth of Conservatism
- 155. Boston's Battle over Busing
- Backlash
- 156. The Tax Revolt
- 157. Campus Racism and the Reagan Budget Cuts
- 158. The War against the Poor
- 159. David Duke and the Southern Strategy
- 160. The Civil Rights Act of 1991
- 161. How "Welfare" Became a Dirty Word
- 162. Lazy Lies about Welfare
- 163. Race and the "New Democrats"
- 164. Defunding the Congressional Black Caucus
- 165. Vouchers, the Right, and the Race Card
- 166. The Prison Industrial Complex
- 167. Felony Disenfranchisement
- 168. Chain Gang Blues
- 169. Breaking Thurgood Marshall's Promise
- Part VI. Toward a Third Reconstruction
- 170. Introduction: Where Do We Go from Here?
- 171. Time for a Third Reconstruction
- 172. Toward a New Protest Paradigm
- 173. Why Inter-Ethnic Anti-Racism Matters Now
- 174. How the New Working Class Can Transform Urban America
- 175. What Works to Reduce Inequality?
- 176. A Workers' Bill of Rights
- 177. A Ten-Point Plan
- 178. Both Race and Class: A Time for Anger
- 179. Fear of a Black Feminist Planet
- 180. Response to the Million Man March
- 181. What Farrakhan Left Out
- 182. Clean-Money Campaign Finance Reform
- 183. Proportional Representation
- 184. We Can Educate All Our Children
- 185. Algebra as Civil Rights: An Interview with Bob Moses
- 186. Pulpit Politics: Religion and the Black Radical Tradition
- 187. Some Truths Are Not Self-Evident
- 188. We Don't Need Another Dr. King
- Index
- About the Editors