Daily Life of African Americans in Primary Documents

[2 Volumes]
Herausgeber: Covey, Herbert C; Eisnach, Dwight

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Produktbeschreibung

Daily Life of African Americans in Primary Documents takes readers on an insightful journey through the life experiences of African Americans over the centuries, capturing African American experiences, challenges, accomplishments, and daily lives, often in their own words. This two-volume set provides readers with a balanced collection of materials that captures the wide-ranging experiences of African American people over the history of North America. Volume 1 begins with the enslavement and transportation of slaves to North America and ends with the Civil War; Volume 2 continues with the beginning of Reconstruction through the election of Barack Obama to the U.S. presidency. Each volume provides a chronology of major events, a historic overview, and sections devoted to domestic, material, economic, intellectual, political, leisure, and religious life of African Americans for the respective time spans. Volume 1 covers a wide variety of topics from a multitude of perspectives in such areas as enslavement, life during the Civil War, common foods, housing, clothing, political opinions, and similar topics. Volume 2 addresses the civil rights movement, court cases, life under Jim Crow, Reconstruction, busing, housing segregation, and more. Each volume includes 100-110 primary sources with suggested readings from government publications, court testimony, census data, interviews, newspaper accounts, period appropriate letters, Works Progress Administration interviews, sermons, laws, diaries, and reports.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
• Seitenzahl: 760
• Erscheinungstermin: 24. November 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 259mm x 183mm x 53mm
• Gewicht: 1973g
• ISBN-13: 9781440866647
• ISBN-10: 1440866643
• Artikelnr.: 68503476

Autorenporträt

Herbert C. Covey has a PhD in sociology from the University of Colorado at Boulder and is acting director of the Adams County Human Services Department. Dwight Eisnach has a BA in journalism from the University of Colorado at Boulder and is a freelance writer.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments
Set Introduction
Chronology of Selected Events
1865-2020
PART I HISTORICAL OVERVIEW
1865-2020 THE COLLAPSE OF THE CONFEDERACY AND RECONSTRUCTION (1865-1877)
THE JIM CROW SOUTH
MASS MIGRATIONS
PROTESTS AND MASSACRES
THE GREAT DEPRESSION
WORLD WAR II
AND THE 1940s
1950s-1970s
1980s-1990s
2000-2020
PART II DOMESTIC LIFE LIFE AFTER SLAVERY
SUCCESSFUL BLACK COMMUNITIES
1. "Boley (An Exclusively Negro Town in Oklahoma)
" R. Edgar Iles (1925)
RACE MASSACRES
2. The Freedmen's Bureau Report on the Memphis Race Riots of 1866
T. W. Gilbreth
May 22 (1866)
3. The Tulsa Race Riot
B. C. Franklin (1921)
DAILY LIFE UNDER JIM CROW
4. "The Ethics of Living Jim Crow: An Autobiographical Sketch
" Richard Wright (1937)
5. "'My Dungeon Shook': A Letter to My Nephew
" James Baldwin
January 1 (1962)
DAILY LIFE UNDER SEGREGATION
6. "Editorial
Intermarriage
" W. E. B. Du Bois
February 5 (1913)
7. Senator Hiram Revels Calls for Desegregation of D.C. Schools (1871)
8. M. Jay Lockard
Account of School Boycott and Shootings at the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party Center
August 16 (1965)
9. Massachusetts Black Caucus Letter to Judge Arthur Garrity Regarding the Dangers of School Busing in Boston (1974)
PART III ECONOMIC AND MATERIAL LIFE ECONOMIC LIFE AFTER SLAVERY
THE GREAT DEPRESSION
AFRICAN AMERICAN SOCIOECONOMIC STATUS
FOOD
CLOTHING
HEALTH CARE
1. Special Field Orders No. 15-"Forty Acres and a Mule
" General William Tecumseh Sherman
January 16 (1865)
2. Freedmen's Contract between Isham G. Bailey and Freedmen Cooper Hughs and Charles Roberts
January 1 (1867)
3. "The Negro as He Really Is
" W. E. B. Du Bois (1901)
4. Nine Indicted for Peonage
June 3 (1909)
5. More Slavery at the South
by a Negro Nurse
January 25 (1912)
6. Interview with Dave Stephens
Tenant Farmer-North Carolina
September 18 (1938)
LABOR UNIONS
7. "Knocks Pullman Co.
" May 22 (1915)
BUSINESS SUCCESS
8. "The Negro in Business
" W. E. B. Du Bois (1899)
9. Madam Walker Comments at the Annual Convention of the National Negro Business League
Chicago (1912)
SOCIOECONOMIC STATUS of BLACK AMERICANS
10. The Colored Woman as Bread Winner
Mary Ovington (1911)
11. Economic Justice in the Black Community
U.S. House of Representatives
Monday
February 5 (2018)
12. Statistical Snapshot of Census Bureau Estimates for African Americans (2018)
PART IV INTELLECTUAL LIFE THE GREAT DEBATE
1. "Atlanta Compromise Speech
" Booker T. Washington
September 18 (1895)
2. "Address to the Country
" W. E. B. Du Bois
August 16 (1900)
3. An Open Letter to College Men
The Meaning of the Niagara Movement and the Junior Niagara Movement
Mason A. Hawkins (1909)
EDUCATION AND LEARNING
4. Education in the Southern States
Harper's Weekly
November 9 (1867)
5. "What Does American Democracy Mean to Me?" America's Town Meeting of the Air
New York City
Mary McLeod Bethune
November 23 (1939)
CONTRIBUTIONS TO SCIENCE AND CULTURE
6. What Mrs. Fisher Knows about Old Southern Cooking
Abby Fisher (1881)
7. African American Inventors Secure 1
000 Patents from Emancipation to 1908 (1908)
8. How to Grow the Peanut and 105 Ways of Preparing It for Human Consumption
George Washington Carver (1918/1925)
HARLEM RENAISSANCE AND THE GREAT MIGRATION
9. Migrant Letters to The Chicago Defender and the Great Migration (1917)
10. "If We Must Die
" Claude McKay (1919)
11. "Black Woman
" Georgia Douglas Johnson (1922)
12. The New Negro
Alain Locke (1925)
13. "Ballad of Booker T.
" Langston Hughes (1941)
PART V POLITICAL LIFE LAWS
1. The Civil War Amendments (1865-1870)
2. Speech of Honorable T. B. Van Buren
on the Bill to Ratify the Amendment to the Constitution of the United States Prohibiting Slavery: In the New York House of Assembly
March 15 (1865)
3. U.S. House of Representatives Thirteenth Amendment Speech by Thaddeus Stevens
January 13 (1865)
4. Albert S. Pillsbury's Letter of Witnessing the Passage of the Thirteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution (1865)
BLACK CODES
5. Black Code of South Carolina (1865)
RECONSTRUCTION
6. A Black Man and a White Man Exchange Views on Reconstruction (1867)
7. Letter on Ku Klux Klan Activities. Some of the Outrages
Letter from Judge Tourgée to Senator Abbott (1870)
ELECTED AFRICAN AMERICANS
8. The Political Trials of Robert Smalls (1878)
9. Speech Made in Reply to an Attack upon the Colored State Legislators of South Carolina by Representative Cox of New York
Joseph H. Rainey (1871)
10. Congressman George H. White's Farewell Address to Congress (1896)
11. The Conflict in Vietnam
Shirley Chisholm (1969)
12. Statement on the Articles of Impeachment
July 25
1974
House Judiciary Committee
Representative Barbara Charline Jordan (1974)
13. A More Perfect Union
Senator Barrack Obama (2008)
BLACK POWER
14. The Basis of Black Power
Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee Position Paper on White Participation (1966)
15. Ten-Point Program and Platform of the Black Student Unions
February (1969)
16. Bobby G. Seale's Handwritten Request for Legal Representation at the Chicago 8 Trial (1969)
PART VI THE STRUGGLE FOR CIVIL RIGHTS CIVIL RIGHTS ORGANIZATIONS
THE DECADE OF PROTEST
CIVIL RIGHTS MARTYRS
COURT CASES
1. The Dissenting Opinion of Justice John Marshall Harlan in Plessey v. Ferguson (1896)
2. Excerpts from the Testimony of Ruby Bates at the Heywood Patterson Scottsboro Boys Trial (1933)
3. U.S. Supreme Court Opinion on Brown v. Board of Education
Topeka
Kansas (1954)
LYNCHING
4. "Lynching and the Excuse for It
" Ida B. Wells Barnett (1901)
5. Letter
Eleanor Roosevelt to Walter Francis White Detailing the First Lady's Lobbying Efforts for Federal Action against Lynching
March 19 (1936)
6. "40
000 at Till Youth's Funeral: Two Men Held on Murder Indictment" (1955)
ASSASINATIONS
7. Speech on Assassination of Martin Luther King Jr.
Robert F. Kennedy (1968)
VOTING RIGHTS
8. First African American Voter in New York
March 1
1901
Died at the Age of 117 Years
Born a Slave in Ulster County-The First Negro Voter in This State
9. Sections 2 and 5 of the Voting Rights Act of 1965
MEDICAL EXPERIMENTATION
10. The Manhattan District Experiments
The Case of Ebb Cade (1945)
CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT
11. General Rufus B. Saxton on Freed Blacks' Desire to Acquire Arms
February 21 (1866)
12. "Racial Segregation
" William Pickens Field (1927)
13. Montgomery Police Department
Arrest Warrant for Rosa Parks (1955)
14. House Committee on Un-American Activities (HUAC) Hearings and African Americans (1956)
15. Radio and Television Report to the American People on Civil Rights
President John F. Kennedy
June 11
1963
16. Civil Rights Act Public Law 88-352 (78 Stat. 241) (1964)
POLICE AND CRIMINAL JUSTICE RELATIONS
17. Excerpts from Federal Bureau of Investigation of Malcolm X (1965)
18. Vermont High School Students Speak Out about Police Brutality (1999)
PART VII MILITARY LIFE MILITARY INTERVENTION IN CIVIL AFFAIRS
1. The Brownsville "Affray" (1906)
MILITARY SERVICE AND SEGREGATION
2. Tribute to the Negro Soldier
General John J. Pershing (1919)
3. Against Discrimination
Honorable Newton D. Baker
Secretary of War (1919)
4. Transcript of Executive Order 9981: Desegregation of the Armed Forces
President Harry Truman (1948)
5. Interview with Martha Putney
World War II Veteran
March 26 (2004)
6. Interview with George Dunn
Vietnam Veteran August 12 (2003)
PART VIII LEISURE LIFE ENTERTAINMENT
1. Lyrics to "Nobody" and "The Phrenologist Coon" (1905 and 1901)
2. Amusements for Young People
W. E. B. Du Bois (1914)
3. Black Entertainers in the Age of Swing
Lena Horne (1920s-1940s)
4. The Negro Travelers' Green Book
Victor H. Green (1956)
5. "Ice Cube on Ghostwriting
Diss Tracks and Straight Outta Compton's Timeliness" (2015)
LITERATURE
6. "We Wear the Mask
" Paul Laurence Dunbar (1895)
7. Three Negro Poets: George M. Horton
Mrs. Francis Ellen Watkins Harper
and Albery A. Whitman
Benjamin Brawley (1917)
8. "Still I Rise
" Maya Angelou (1994)
MUSIC
9. "Lift Ev'ry Voice and Sing
" James Weldon Johnson (1900)
10. "Memphis Blues
" W. C. Handy (1912)
SPORTS
PART IX RELIGIOUS LIFE ALTERNATIVES TO CHRISTIANITY
THE BLACK CHURCH IN THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY
AFRICAN AMERICAN SPIRITUALS
1. "Swing Low
Sweet Chariot
" Wallace Willis (1871)
2. "Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child" (1918)
SERMONS
3. A Sermon upon the Doctrine of Sanctification
Elder Joseph Baysmore (1887)
4. Black Religion in the Post-Reconstruction South
William Wells Brown (1880)
Suggested Readings
Index
About the Editors