Jim Crow : voices from a century of struggle. Part One, 1876-1919 : Reconstruction to the Red Summer

Jim Crow Voices from a century of struggle. Part One, 1876-1919 : Reconstruction to the Red Summer Part One, 1876-1919 : Reconstruction to the Red Summer /

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This collection of 80 dramatic firsthand writings by Frederick Douglass, Ida B. Wells, and others brings to life the struggle for racial justice from the Civil War to World War. A vital resource for the teaching of the history of race in America that traces the ascendancy of white supremacy after Reconstruction--and the outspoken resistance to it led by Black Americans and their allies. W.E.B. Du Bois famously identified "the problem of the color-line" as the defining issue in American life. The powerful writings gathered here reveal the many ways Americans, Black and white, fought against white supremacist efforts to police the color line, envisioning a better America in the face of disenfranchisement, segregation, and widespread... lynching, mob violence, and police brutality.

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Subjects
Racism > United States.
Racisme > États-Unis.
United States > History > 1865-1921.
United States > Race relations > History.
États-Unis > Histoire > 1865-1921.
États-Unis > Relations raciales > Histoire.
Nonfiction novels.
Genres
Nonfiction novels
Published
New York, N.Y. : Library of America [2024]
Language
English
Physical Description
xxxv, 728 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 632-700) and index.
ISBN
9781598537666
  • Introduction
  • 1876-1896
  • Frederick Douglass: Speech to the Republican National Convention, June 14, 1876
  • Protecting the Black Vote in the South
  • Denver Daily Tribune: "A Threatening Power," January 12, 1877
  • A Republican Newspaper Mocks Democratic Fears
  • St. Louis Globe Democrat: The Future of the Negro, April 27, 1877
  • "The new order of things"
  • National Colored Colonization Society: Address to Rutherford B. Hayes, September 15, 1877
  • "A worse state of slavery"
  • Hester Hickman: The Land That Gives Birth to Freedom, 1877; Extending Our Voices to Heaven
  • A Song of the Black Exodus
  • The New York Times: New Homes for Freedmen, January 23, 1879
  • "A territory for colored men"
  • The Chicago Tribune: The Debtor South, May 13, 1879
  • Sharecropping in Louisiana and Mississippi
  • Benjamin Singleton: from Testimony to the Senate Select Committee, April 17, 1880
  • "The father of the exodus"
  • Stephen Field: Opinion in Pace v. Alabama, January 29, 1883
  • Upholding Anti-Miscegenation Laws
  • John Marshall Harlan: Dissenting Opinion in Civil Rights Cases, October 15, 1883
  • "Universal freedom in this country"
  • New York Globe: The Civil Rights Decision, October 20, 1883
  • "Aliens in our native land"
  • Nathaniel S. Shaler: The Negro Problem, November 1884
  • "The real dangers that this African blood brings"
  • George Washington Cable: The Freedman's Case in Equity, January 1885
  • "The outrageousness of these tyrannies"
  • Thomas Miller: Speech in Congress on the Elections Bill, January 12, 1891
  • The Need for a Federal Elections Law
  • Ida B. Wells: Southern Horrors; Lynch Law in All Its Phases, 1892
  • A Crusade for Justice Begins
  • Frederick Douglass: from The Reason Why the Colored American is not in the World's Columbian Exposition, 1893
  • The Enduring Impact of Slavery
  • Ida B. Wells: from The Reason Why the Colored American is not in the World's Columbian Exposition, 1893
  • Class Legislation and the Convict Lease System
  • Richard T. Greener: The White Problem, May 1894
  • "The so-called 'Caucasian' intellect"
  • Ida B. Wells: from A Red Record, 1895
  • Examining Excuses for Lynching
  • Booker T. Washington: Address at the Atlanta Exposition, September 18, 1895
  • "As separate as the fingers"
  • Clark Howell: To the Editor of The World, September 19, 1895
  • A Southern Newspaper Editor Praises Washington
  • Republican Members of the South Carolina Convention: To the Editor of The World, September 30, 1895
  • Defending Black Suffrage
  • Grover Cleveland: To Booker T. Washington, October 6, 1895
  • Praise from the President
  • Robert Smalls: from Speech in the South Carolina Convention, October 26, 1895
  • Arguing Against Disenfranchisement
  • Albion W. Tourgée: Brief for the Plaintiff in Plessy v. Ferguson, c. 1895
  • The Unconstitutionality of Railroad Segregation
  • Henry B. Brown: Opinion in Plessy v. Ferguson, May 18, 1896
  • Upholding "equal but separate" Accommodations
  • John Marshall Harlan: Dissenting Opinion in Plessy v. Ferguson, May 18, 1896
  • "The wrong thisnday done"
  • 1897-1909
  • The Washington Evening Star: Negro Emigration, October 21, 1897
  • An Interview with Bishop Henry McNeal Turner
  • The Wilmington Morning Star: Mrs. Felton Speaks, August 18, 1898
  • A White Southern Woman Defends Lynching
  • The Wilmington Morning Star: A Horrid Slander, August 30, 1898
  • A Black Editor Responds to Rebecca Felton
  • The Raleigh News and Observer: Defamer Must Go, November 10, 1898
  • Inciting the Wilmington Insurrection
  • W. H. Councill: The Future of the Negro, July 1899
  • "The terrible, stern reality of the situation"
  • The New Orleans Daily Picayune: To Protect the City; End of a Desperado, July 28, 1900
  • The Deadly Manhunt for Robert Charles
  • The Richmond Planet: The Butchery at New Orleans; With a Rifle in His Hand, August 4, 1900
  • Praising Robert Charles: "Bold and defiant to the last"
  • The Navasota Daily Examiner: Campaign Oratory, September 29, 1900
  • The White Man's Union Holds a Rally
  • George H. White: Speech in Congress in Defense of the Negro Race, January 29, 1901
  • A Black Congressman's Valedictory Address
  • The Independent: The Negro Problem: How It Appeals to a Southern Colored Woman, September 18, 1902
  • "Why are we forgotten?"
  • Benjamin R. Tillman: from Speech in the Senate on the Race Problem, February 24, 1903
  • Advocating White Supremacy
  • The Joptin Daily Globe: Murderer of Leslie Lynched by Angry Mob, April 16, 1903
  • The Lynching of Thomas Gilyard
  • W.E.B. Du Bois: Of Mr. Booker T. Washington and Others, 1903
  • Criticizing Washington's Leadership
  • Charles W. Chesnutt: The Disfranchisement of the Negro, 1903
  • The Nullification of the Fifteenth Amendment
  • Charles Brandey Aycock: from Speech to the North Carolina Society, December 18, 1903
  • A Southern Governor Celebrates Disfranchisement
  • William Monroe Trotter to W.E.B. Du Bois, March 26, 1905
  • Challenging Washington's Leadership
  • Aida Overton Walker: Colored Men and Women on the Stage, October 1905
  • A Black Vaudeville Star Speaks
  • Mary Church Terrell: What It Means to Be Colored in the Capital of the United States, October 10, 1906
  • Segregation in Washington, D.C.
  • The New York Times: Negro Pastors Assail Roosevelt's Army Order, November 19, 1906
  • Protesting the Brownsville Dismissals
  • Mary Church Terrell: Peonage in the United States: The Convict Lease System and the Chain Gangs, August 1907
  • "Violation of the thirteenth amendment"
  • Sally Nash: Interview about Life in Rentiesville, Oklahoma, 1903-08, June 22, 1937
  • Remembering a Black Town in the Southwest
  • San Pedro Daily News: The Candidates and the Negro, October 14, 1908
  • Rallying the Black Vote for the Republicans
  • The New York Evening Post: Conference on Negroes, February 13, 1909
  • "The renewal of the struggle for civil and political liberty"
  • Platform Adopted by the National Negro Committee, June 1, 1909
  • Founding the NAACP
  • 1909-1919
  • Hanford Daily Journal: Lynching Bees in Present Year Numerous, December 17, 1909
  • Seventy Victims of Mob Violence
  • Los Angeles Times: The Fight and Its Consequences, July 6, 1910
  • The Johnson-Jeffries Fight
  • William Pickens: Talladega College Professor Speaks on Reno Fight, July 30, 1910
  • Celebrating Jack Johnson's Victory
  • Lester A. Walton: Concert at Carnegie Hall, May 9, 1912
  • James Reese Europe and the Clef Club
  • The Austin Daily Statesman: Negroes to Gather Here by Thousands, May 20, 1912
  • Celebrating Juneteenth
  • Moorfield Storey, W.E.B. Du Bois, Oswald Garrison Villard to Woodrow Wilson, August 15, 1913
  • Protesting the Segregation of Federal Workers
  • William Monroe Trotter: Address to Woodrow Wilson, November 12, 1914
  • "A gratuitous blow against ever-loyal citizens"
  • Woodrow Wilson and William Monroe Trotter: An Exchange, November 12, 1914
  • A White House Confrontation
  • Provisional Directorate of the Revolutionary Plan: The Plan of San Diego, January 6, 1915
  • Plotting the Overthrow of "Yankee tyranny"
  • Francis Hackett: Brotherly Love, March 20, 1915
  • Reviewing The Birth of a Nation: "vicious and defamatory"
  • Outlook: The Birth of a Nation, April 14, 1915
  • "An exaltation of race war"
  • W.E.B. Du Bois: "We Should Worry," June 1917
  • Wartime Opportunities
  • The New York Times: Mob of 3,000 Rules in East St. Louis, May 29, 1917
  • Mob Attacks on Black Workers
  • Carlos F. Hurd: Post-Dispatch Man, An Eye-Witness, Describes Massacre of Negroes, July 3, 1917
  • A Deadly Riot in East St. Louis
  • John Pero: from Testimony to the House Select Committee, October 24, 1917
  • Racial Tensions in East St. Louis
  • James Weldon Johnson: An Army with Banners, August 2, 1917
  • A Silent March in New York City
  • Ralph Van Deman: Army Intelligence Memorandum on William Monroe Trotter, October 2, 1917
  • Watching a "Radical colored man"
  • Martha Gruening: Houston: An N.A.A.C.P. Investigation, November 1917
  • A Rebellion by Black Soldiers
  • The Chicago Defender: Migration and Its Effect, April 20, 1918
  • The Great Migration North
  • Leonidas C. Dyer: Speech in Congress on the Anti-Lynching Bill, May 7, 1918
  • The Constitutionality of a Federal Law
  • W.E.B. Du Bois: Close Ranks, July 1918
  • "The crisis of the world"
  • Cyril Briggs: The American Race Problem, September-December 1918
  • "Hatred of the unlike"
  • The Right-About: Hell-Fighters Cheered on Homecoming, February 19, 1919
  • A Black Regiment Returns from France
  • W.E.B. Du Bois: Returning Soldiers, May 1919
  • "This country . . . is yet a shameful land"
  • Jeannette Carter: Negroes of Washington Were Forced to Protect Themselves, August 2, 1919
  • "Striking terror into . . . the white mob"
  • James E. Scott: Statement on Attack by Rioters in Washington, D.C., August 4, 1919
  • "Lynch him"
  • Martina Simms: Washington Riot, August 15, 1919
  • "They will fight"
  • The Chicago Daily Tribune: Report Two Killed, Fifty Hurt, in Race Riots, July 28, 1919
  • A City Erupts
  • The Chicago Daily Tnbune: Negroes Call on Mayor, Lowden, to Stop Riots, July 31, 1919
  • "The Causes and Cure" for the Riot
  • A. Philip Randolph: Our Reason for Being, August 1919
  • A Program for "Negro labor radicalism"
  • Marcus Garvey: Speech in New York City, August 25, 1919
  • "For a free and independent race"
  • W. A. Domingo and Claude McKay: If We Must Die, September 1919
  • "The New Negro has arrived"
  • Chronology
  • Note on the Texts
  • Notes
  • Index

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