Civil rights since 1787 : a reader on the Black struggle /

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Imprint:New York : New York University Press, c2000.
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
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Other authors / contributors:Birnbaum, Jonathan, 1956-
Taylor, Clarence.
ISBN:0814782159 (alk. paper)
0814782493 (pbk. : alk. paper)
Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
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