Letters from Black America
Intimate Portraits of the African American Experience
Herausgeber: Newkirk, Pamela
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The first-ever narrative history of African Americans told through their own letters Letters from Black America fills a literary and historical void by presenting the spectrum of African American experience in the most intimate way possible-through the heartfelt correspondence of those who lived through monumental changes and pivotal events, from the American Revolution to the war in Iraq, from slavery to the election of Obama.
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The first-ever narrative history of African Americans told through their own letters Letters from Black America fills a literary and historical void by presenting the spectrum of African American experience in the most intimate way possible-through the heartfelt correspondence of those who lived through monumental changes and pivotal events, from the American Revolution to the war in Iraq, from slavery to the election of Obama.
Produktdetails
- Produktdetails
- Verlag: Beacon Press
- Seitenzahl: 400
- Erscheinungstermin: 11. Januar 2011
- Englisch
- Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 23mm
- Gewicht: 647g
- ISBN-13: 9780807001158
- ISBN-10: 0807001155
- Artikelnr.: 30884938
- Verlag: Beacon Press
- Seitenzahl: 400
- Erscheinungstermin: 11. Januar 2011
- Englisch
- Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 23mm
- Gewicht: 647g
- ISBN-13: 9780807001158
- ISBN-10: 0807001155
- Artikelnr.: 30884938
Pamela Newkirk is the editor of A Love No Less: More Than Two Centuries of African American Love Letters and the author of Within the Veil: Black Journalists, White Media. An award-winning journalist and professor of journalism at New York University, she lives in New York City.
Introduction xvii A Note on the Text xxi PART I : Family Hannah Grover to Her Son Cato
June 3
1805 George Pleasant to Agnes Hobbs
September 6
1833 Lucy Smith to Sarah Boon
May 1
1842 Abream Scriven to Dinah Jones
September 19
1858 James Tate to His Wife
February 4
1863 Ann Valentine to Andrew Valentine
January 19
1864 Mandy McCinny to George McCinny
May 11
1864 Susanah Hart to Mark Hart
February 23
1865 Martha Bruce to John Edward Bruce
September 23
1887 Paul Laurence Dunbar to Matilda Dunbar
June 6
1893 Matilda Dunbar to Paul Laurence Dunbar
June 8
1895 Paul Laurence Dunbar to Matilda Dunbar
November 25
1897 Matilda Dunbar to Paul Laurence Dunbar
July 5
1901 Mary Church Terrell to Robert H. Terrell
July 9
1902 Robert H. Terrell to Mary Church Terrell
Undated Robert H. Terrell to Mary Church Terrell
December 30
1913 W.E.B. Du Bois to Yolande Du Bois
March 13
1907 W.E.B. Du Bois to Yolande Du Bois
October 29
1914 Dr. William R. R. Granger
Sr.
to Son
October 8
1911 Dr. William R. R. Granger
Sr.
to W.R.R. Granger
Jr.
September 30
1914 Dr. A. T. Granger to Dr. W.R.R. Granger
Jr.
August 5
1917 Lester B. Granger to Dr. W.R.R. Granger
Jr.
July 15
1930 Lester B. Granger to Dr. W.R.R. Granger
Jr.
February 23
1932 Madam C. J. Walker to A’Lelia Walker
May 16
1919 Grace Nail Johnson to James Weldon Johnson
June 19
1929 Leigh Whipper to Dr. Ionia Whipper
September 8
1930 Robert Murphy to Matilda Dunbar
October 30
1933 Ralph Ellison to Ida Millsap Ellison
April 20
1937 Ralph Ellison to Ida Millsap Ellison
August 30
1937 The Watson Children to Justice James S. Watson
Undated
1937 James L. Watson to Justice James S. Watson
May 16
1943 Doug Watson to Justice James S. Watson
September 29
1947 Martin Luther King
Jr.
to Martin Luther King
Sr.
June 15
1944 Julia Davis Rustin to Bayard Rustin
April 15
1946 Martin Luther King
Jr.
to Alberta King
October 1948 Edith Braithwaite to William Stanley Braithwaite
December 27
1954 William Stanley Braithwaite to Edith Braithwaite
September 27
1956 Adam Clayton Powell
Jr.
to Hazel Scott Powell
October 11
1957 Dr. Martin Luther King
Jr.
to Coretta Scott King
October 26
1960 Medgar Evers to Myrlie Evers and Children
November 27
1962 Urnestine Lewis to David Levering Lewis
September 7
1963 Derrick Bell
Jr.
to Derrick Bell
Sr.
July 26
1967 Joseph F. Beam to Mom and Dad
May 29
1976 Walter J. Leonard to Angela Leonard
April 16
1991 Walter J. Leonard to Mamie K. Singleton
November 10
1992 Queen Esther Gupton Cheatham Jones to Renée Cheatham Neblett
March 1993 Queen Esther Gupton Cheatham Jones to Renée Cheatham Neblett
Undated
circa 1996 Thomas Allen Harris to Lyle Ashton Harris
Undated
1998 Michael Leon Thomas to Mom and Dad
October 12
2000 Walter J. Leonard to Angela M. Leonard
May 12
2005 PART II : Courtship and Romance Nicey E. Bush to Harvey Moore
September 14
1869 Harvey Moore to Nicey E. Bush
October 26
1869 Harvey Moore to Nicey E. Bush
December 20
1869 Paul Laurence Dunbar to Alice Ruth Moore
March 7
1897 Roscoe Conkling Bruce to Clara Burrill
January 3
1903 Clara Burrill to Roscoe Conkling Bruce
Undated
1903 Roscoe Conkling Bruce to Clara Burrill
January 31
1903 Roscoe Conkling Bruce to Clara Burrill
February 19
[1903] Dr. James Arthur Kennedy to A’Lelia Walker
December 8
1921 Dr. Henry Arthur Callis to Myra Colson
December 24
1925 Dr. Henry Arthur Callis to Myra Colson
January 7
1926 Robert Keyes to Hattie Haynes
April 15
1928 Fredi Washington to Lawrence Brown
June 22
1932 Lawrence Brown to Fredi Washington
Undated Fredi Washington to Lawrence Brown
September 29
1934 Charles Drew to Minnie Lenore Robbins
April 9
1939 Charles Drew to Minnie Lenore Robbins
1939 Charles Drew to Minnie Lenore Robbins
April 21
1939 Martin Luther King
Jr.
to Coretta Scott
July 18
1952 Rev. Martin Luther King
Jr.
to Coretta Scott King
February 14
1957 Booker T. Washington III to Joyce Dodson Washington
February 4
1968 Walter D. Broadnax to Angel Wheelock Marshall
March 28
1984 Francesca Momplaisir to Nnabu Gogoh
May 8
1999 Nnabu Gogoh to Francesca Momplaisir
June 10
2000 Nnabu Gogoh to Francesca Momplaisir
September 28
2000 PART III : Politics and Social Justice Phillis Wheatley to Rev. Samson Occom
February 11
1774 Benjamin Banneker to Secretary of State Thomas Jefferson
August 19
1791 Frederick Douglass to Captain Thomas Auld
September 3
1848 Fugitive Slaves to Enslaved Brethren
November 5
1850 Annie Davis to President Abraham Lincoln
August 25
1864 Sojourner Truth to Rowland Johnson
November 17
1864 Frederick Douglass to Readers
June 13
1872 Whitefield McKinlay to Booker T. Washington
November 1
1901 Booker T. Washington to Whitefield McKinlay
November 6
1901 Booker T. Washington to Whitefield McKinlay
February 18
1902 Ida B. Wells-Barnett to Anti-Lynching Bureau
January 1
1902 Robert Smalls to Whitefield McKinlay
November 10
1909 Robert Smalls to Whitefield McKinlay
September 12
1912 W.E.B. Du Bois to President Woodrow Wilson
October 10
1916 James Weldon Johnson to President Warren G. Harding
September 19
1921 Arthur A. Schomburg to Wendell Dabney
December 12
1933 Roy Wilkins to Eleanor Roosevelt
Undated
1934 Walter White to Thurgood Marshall
March 1
1935 Claude McKay to James Weldon Johnson
May 8
1935 Congressman Adam Clayton Powell
Jr.
to Eleanor Roosevelt
November 5
1956 Congressman Adam Clayton Powell
Jr.
to U.S. Senator John F. Kennedy
November 5
1957 Dr. Martin Luther King
Jr.
to President John F. Kennedy
September 11
1962 Dr. Martin Luther King
Jr.
to White Clergymen
April 16
1963 James Baldwin to His Nephew James
1963 Rev. Adam Clayton Powell
Jr.
to Dr. Martin Luther King
Jr.
January 27
1964 Shirley Du Bois to Langston Hughes
March 7
1965 Jean Fairfax to Minnie and A. J. Lewis
July 23
1965 U.S. Senator Edward W. Brooke III to President Richard M. Nixon
March 27
1969 U.S. Senator Edward W. Brooke III to Secretary of State William P. Rogers
May 27
1969 Bayard Rustin to Eldridge Cleaver
January 24
1977 Bayard Rustin to Mayor Edward I. Koch
February 25
1985 Rev. Jeremiah A. Wright
Jr.
to Jodi Kantor
March 2007 Toni Morrison to U.S. Senator Barack Obama
January 28
2008 AliceWalker to President-Elect Barack Obama
November 5
2008 PART IV: Education and the Art of Scholarship Booker T. Washington to Emily Howland
Undated W.E.B. Du Bois to Harvard University
October 29
1887 W.E.B. Du Bois to the John F. Slater Fund
March 10
1893 Booker T. Washington to W.E.B. Du Bois
July 15
1902 W.E.B. Du Bois to Vernealia Fereira
December 14
1904 John Hope to W.E.B. Du Bois
January 17
1910 W.E.B. Du Bois to John Hope
January 22
1910 Alice Dunbar to John Edward Bruce
March 23
1914 James Emman Kwegyir Aggrey to Sadie Peterson Delaney
March 14
1924 John Hope to W.E.B. Du Bois
November 15
1924 W.E.B. Du Bois to John Hope
March 25
1925 W.E.B. Du Bois to Bureau of Education Commissioner William John Cooper
December 18
1929 Carter G. Woodson to John Hope
December 24
1931 Alain Locke to James Weldon Johnson
March 7
1934 Countee Cullen to James Weldon Johnson
June 7
1934 Shirley Graham to W.E.B. Du Bois
June 23
1934 Sterling A. Brown to W.E.B. Du Bois
January 29
1935 Horace Mann Bond to Arthur A. Schomburg
September 19
1936 Arthur A. Schomburg to Jacob Drachler
January 10
1938 Kenneth B. Clark to Mr. Swift
September 17
1940 Congressman Adam Clayton Powell
Jr.
to Rev. Hugh Burr
March 16
1956 Jean Fairfax to U.S. Education Commissioner Francis Keppel
March 6
1967 Derrick Bell
Jr.
to Office for Civil Rights Staff
August 15
1967 U.S. Senator Edward W. Brooke III to President Richard M. Nixon
June 25
1969 Derrick Bell
Jr.
to Justice Thurgood Marshall
October 2
1969 Justice Thurgood Marshall to Derrick Bell
Jr.
October 1969 Kenneth B. Clark to The New York Times
August 7
1979 Derrick Bell
Jr.
to Dean Robert Clark
April 9
1990 Walter J. Leonard to Angela M. Leonard
July 28
1997 Walter J. Leonard to Angela M. Leonard
November 6
2002 Rev. Bernard Chris Dorsey to Walter Broadnax
April 17
2007 Dr. Frank L. Douglas to Claude Canizares
MIT Vice President for Research
June 1
2007 Dr. Frank L. Douglas to His MIT Colleagues and Friends
June 1
2007 PART V: War John Boston to His Wife
January 12
1862 Lewis Douglass to Amelia Loguen
July 20
1863 James Henry Gooding to President Abraham Lincoln
September 28
1863 Nancy Allcorn to Missouri Provost Marshall
May 16
1864 George Rodgers et al. to President Abraham Lincoln
August 1864 • Roanoke Island
North Carolina
Freedmen to Secretary of War Edwin M. Stanton
March 9
1865 M. W. Saddler to The Freeman Newspaper
September 1899 Patrick Mason to Editor of The Gazette Newspaper
November 19
1899 Unnamed Soldier to New York Age Editor
May 17
1900 James A. Davis to Pecola Johnson Davis
October 1
1918 Canute Frankson to a Dear Friend
July 6
1937 Canute Frankson to “My Dear
” July 23
1937 Canute Frankson to “Dearest
” April 13
1938 Leigh Whipper to Benjamin O. Davis
January 28
1941 Mr. and Mrs. James S. Watson to Private James L. Watson
January 23
1943 Lenwood Waller to Pauline Perry
May 7
1945 Bayard Rustin to Local Board No. 63
New York City
November 16
1943 A. Philip Randolph to Bayard Rustin
April 17
1944 A. Philip Randolph to Secretary of Defense George C. Marshall
October 30
1950 Lester B. Granger to Navy Secretary Dan A. Kimball
October 24
1952 U.S. Senator Edward W. Brooke III to President Richard M. Nixon
October 23
1969 U.S. Senator Edward W. Brooke III to President Richard M. Nixon
May 11
1970 Gen. Colin L. Powell to the Students of East Pike Elementary School
August 22
1991 Gen. Colin L. Powell to Friends of Sgt. Maj. William Harrington
March 26
1994 Capt. Eric Mitchell to Friends and Family
2003 Maj. David Scott Harris to Lois D. Cherry
March 23
2003 Lois D. Cherry to Maj. David Scott Harris
March 23
2003 Maj. David Scott Harris to Lois D. Cherry
April 3
2003 Commanding Officer Craig S. Prather
PE
MBA
to My Dalton Family
December 25
2006 PART VI : Art and Culture Phillis Wheatley to Gen. George Washington
October 26
1775 Paul Laurence Dunbar to Alice Ruth Moore
April 17
1895 Alice Ruth Moore to Paul Laurence Dunbar
May 7
1895 Paul Laurence Dunbar to Booker T. Washington
January 23
1902 Claude A. Barnett to Jean Toomer
April 23
1923 Jean Toomer to Claude A. Barnett
April 29
1923 Countee Cullen to Langston Hughes
May 14
1924 Countee Cullen to Langston Hughes
October 8
1924 W.E.B. Du Bois to Roland Hayes
November 30
1925 Roland Hayes to W.E.B. Du Bois
December 16
1925 Alain Locke to A’Lelia Walker
October 12
1928 Zora Neale Hurston to Langston Hughes
December 10
1929 Jean Toomer to James Weldon Johnson
July 11
1930 James Weldon Johnson to Jean Toomer
July 26
1930 Langston Hughes to James Weldon Johnson
August 14
1931 Zora Neale Hurston to James Weldon Johnson
April 16
1934 Zora Neale Hurston to Dorothy West
Undated Claude McKay to James Weldon Johnson
May 31
1935 Ralph Ellison to Langston Hughes
August 24
1936 Claude McKay to James Weldon Johnson
April 2
1937 Ralph Ellison to Langston Hughes
April 27
1937 Arthur A. Schomburg to Langston Hughes
January 3
1938 Arthur A. Schomburg to Caterina Jarboro
March 21
1938 Richard Wright to Antonio Frasconi
November 1944 Richard Wright to David L. Cohn
The Atlantic Monthly
May 1945 Langston Hughes to John Johnson
October 14
1945 Ralph Ellison to Langston Hughes
August 25
1947 Ralph Ellison to Kenneth Burke
August 25
1947 Fredi Washington to Darr Smith
August 2
1949 James Hubert “Eubie” Blake to Flournoy E. Miller
October 30
1949 Bobby Short to Fredi Washington
May 18
1952 Langston Hughes to Arna Bontemps
February 18
1953 Arna Bontemps to Langston Hughes
March 4
1953 Ralph Ellison to Mrs. Turner
March 31
1953 James Hubert “Eubie” Blake to Flournoy E. Miller
October 9
1954 Josephine Baker to Langston Hughes
December 23
1964 Alice Walker to Derrick Bell
Jr.
May 20
1986 William T. Williams to David C. Driskell
October 5
1988 Howardena Pindell to Charles Reeve
editor of Art Papers
May 30
2002 PART VII : Across the Diaspora Mack Nichols et al. to Rev. Alexander Crummel
October 4
1865 George T. Downing to Alexander Crummel
May 18
1897 Alexander Crummel to John W. Cromwell
June 15
1897 John R. Archer to John Edward Bruce
January 17
1914 James Emman Kwegyir Aggrey to Arthur A. Schomburg
May 28
1918 James Emman Kwegyir Aggrey to John Edward Bruce
June 28
1922 J. E. Casely Hayford to John Edward Bruce
November 24
1923 W.E.B. Du Bois to Liberian President Honorable Charles Dunbar Burgess King
January 21
1924 Marcus Garvey to Negroes of the World
February 10
1925 W.E.B. Du Bois to Harvey S. Firestone
October 26
1925 Louis-Marie Dantès Bellegarde to Arthur A. Schomburg
March 11
1932 Arthur A. Schomburg to Louis-Marie Dantès Bellegarde
May 3
1934 Marcus Garvey to Norton Cruickshank
June 10
1937 Fredi Washington to Ademola Johnson
September 23
1949 WilliamAlphaeus Hunton
Jr.
to Ghanaian President Kwame Nkrumah
May 4
1962 Charles Adjei to Lois Okudzeto
June 2003 Acknowledgments Index
June 3
1805 George Pleasant to Agnes Hobbs
September 6
1833 Lucy Smith to Sarah Boon
May 1
1842 Abream Scriven to Dinah Jones
September 19
1858 James Tate to His Wife
February 4
1863 Ann Valentine to Andrew Valentine
January 19
1864 Mandy McCinny to George McCinny
May 11
1864 Susanah Hart to Mark Hart
February 23
1865 Martha Bruce to John Edward Bruce
September 23
1887 Paul Laurence Dunbar to Matilda Dunbar
June 6
1893 Matilda Dunbar to Paul Laurence Dunbar
June 8
1895 Paul Laurence Dunbar to Matilda Dunbar
November 25
1897 Matilda Dunbar to Paul Laurence Dunbar
July 5
1901 Mary Church Terrell to Robert H. Terrell
July 9
1902 Robert H. Terrell to Mary Church Terrell
Undated Robert H. Terrell to Mary Church Terrell
December 30
1913 W.E.B. Du Bois to Yolande Du Bois
March 13
1907 W.E.B. Du Bois to Yolande Du Bois
October 29
1914 Dr. William R. R. Granger
Sr.
to Son
October 8
1911 Dr. William R. R. Granger
Sr.
to W.R.R. Granger
Jr.
September 30
1914 Dr. A. T. Granger to Dr. W.R.R. Granger
Jr.
August 5
1917 Lester B. Granger to Dr. W.R.R. Granger
Jr.
July 15
1930 Lester B. Granger to Dr. W.R.R. Granger
Jr.
February 23
1932 Madam C. J. Walker to A’Lelia Walker
May 16
1919 Grace Nail Johnson to James Weldon Johnson
June 19
1929 Leigh Whipper to Dr. Ionia Whipper
September 8
1930 Robert Murphy to Matilda Dunbar
October 30
1933 Ralph Ellison to Ida Millsap Ellison
April 20
1937 Ralph Ellison to Ida Millsap Ellison
August 30
1937 The Watson Children to Justice James S. Watson
Undated
1937 James L. Watson to Justice James S. Watson
May 16
1943 Doug Watson to Justice James S. Watson
September 29
1947 Martin Luther King
Jr.
to Martin Luther King
Sr.
June 15
1944 Julia Davis Rustin to Bayard Rustin
April 15
1946 Martin Luther King
Jr.
to Alberta King
October 1948 Edith Braithwaite to William Stanley Braithwaite
December 27
1954 William Stanley Braithwaite to Edith Braithwaite
September 27
1956 Adam Clayton Powell
Jr.
to Hazel Scott Powell
October 11
1957 Dr. Martin Luther King
Jr.
to Coretta Scott King
October 26
1960 Medgar Evers to Myrlie Evers and Children
November 27
1962 Urnestine Lewis to David Levering Lewis
September 7
1963 Derrick Bell
Jr.
to Derrick Bell
Sr.
July 26
1967 Joseph F. Beam to Mom and Dad
May 29
1976 Walter J. Leonard to Angela Leonard
April 16
1991 Walter J. Leonard to Mamie K. Singleton
November 10
1992 Queen Esther Gupton Cheatham Jones to Renée Cheatham Neblett
March 1993 Queen Esther Gupton Cheatham Jones to Renée Cheatham Neblett
Undated
circa 1996 Thomas Allen Harris to Lyle Ashton Harris
Undated
1998 Michael Leon Thomas to Mom and Dad
October 12
2000 Walter J. Leonard to Angela M. Leonard
May 12
2005 PART II : Courtship and Romance Nicey E. Bush to Harvey Moore
September 14
1869 Harvey Moore to Nicey E. Bush
October 26
1869 Harvey Moore to Nicey E. Bush
December 20
1869 Paul Laurence Dunbar to Alice Ruth Moore
March 7
1897 Roscoe Conkling Bruce to Clara Burrill
January 3
1903 Clara Burrill to Roscoe Conkling Bruce
Undated
1903 Roscoe Conkling Bruce to Clara Burrill
January 31
1903 Roscoe Conkling Bruce to Clara Burrill
February 19
[1903] Dr. James Arthur Kennedy to A’Lelia Walker
December 8
1921 Dr. Henry Arthur Callis to Myra Colson
December 24
1925 Dr. Henry Arthur Callis to Myra Colson
January 7
1926 Robert Keyes to Hattie Haynes
April 15
1928 Fredi Washington to Lawrence Brown
June 22
1932 Lawrence Brown to Fredi Washington
Undated Fredi Washington to Lawrence Brown
September 29
1934 Charles Drew to Minnie Lenore Robbins
April 9
1939 Charles Drew to Minnie Lenore Robbins
1939 Charles Drew to Minnie Lenore Robbins
April 21
1939 Martin Luther King
Jr.
to Coretta Scott
July 18
1952 Rev. Martin Luther King
Jr.
to Coretta Scott King
February 14
1957 Booker T. Washington III to Joyce Dodson Washington
February 4
1968 Walter D. Broadnax to Angel Wheelock Marshall
March 28
1984 Francesca Momplaisir to Nnabu Gogoh
May 8
1999 Nnabu Gogoh to Francesca Momplaisir
June 10
2000 Nnabu Gogoh to Francesca Momplaisir
September 28
2000 PART III : Politics and Social Justice Phillis Wheatley to Rev. Samson Occom
February 11
1774 Benjamin Banneker to Secretary of State Thomas Jefferson
August 19
1791 Frederick Douglass to Captain Thomas Auld
September 3
1848 Fugitive Slaves to Enslaved Brethren
November 5
1850 Annie Davis to President Abraham Lincoln
August 25
1864 Sojourner Truth to Rowland Johnson
November 17
1864 Frederick Douglass to Readers
June 13
1872 Whitefield McKinlay to Booker T. Washington
November 1
1901 Booker T. Washington to Whitefield McKinlay
November 6
1901 Booker T. Washington to Whitefield McKinlay
February 18
1902 Ida B. Wells-Barnett to Anti-Lynching Bureau
January 1
1902 Robert Smalls to Whitefield McKinlay
November 10
1909 Robert Smalls to Whitefield McKinlay
September 12
1912 W.E.B. Du Bois to President Woodrow Wilson
October 10
1916 James Weldon Johnson to President Warren G. Harding
September 19
1921 Arthur A. Schomburg to Wendell Dabney
December 12
1933 Roy Wilkins to Eleanor Roosevelt
Undated
1934 Walter White to Thurgood Marshall
March 1
1935 Claude McKay to James Weldon Johnson
May 8
1935 Congressman Adam Clayton Powell
Jr.
to Eleanor Roosevelt
November 5
1956 Congressman Adam Clayton Powell
Jr.
to U.S. Senator John F. Kennedy
November 5
1957 Dr. Martin Luther King
Jr.
to President John F. Kennedy
September 11
1962 Dr. Martin Luther King
Jr.
to White Clergymen
April 16
1963 James Baldwin to His Nephew James
1963 Rev. Adam Clayton Powell
Jr.
to Dr. Martin Luther King
Jr.
January 27
1964 Shirley Du Bois to Langston Hughes
March 7
1965 Jean Fairfax to Minnie and A. J. Lewis
July 23
1965 U.S. Senator Edward W. Brooke III to President Richard M. Nixon
March 27
1969 U.S. Senator Edward W. Brooke III to Secretary of State William P. Rogers
May 27
1969 Bayard Rustin to Eldridge Cleaver
January 24
1977 Bayard Rustin to Mayor Edward I. Koch
February 25
1985 Rev. Jeremiah A. Wright
Jr.
to Jodi Kantor
March 2007 Toni Morrison to U.S. Senator Barack Obama
January 28
2008 AliceWalker to President-Elect Barack Obama
November 5
2008 PART IV: Education and the Art of Scholarship Booker T. Washington to Emily Howland
Undated W.E.B. Du Bois to Harvard University
October 29
1887 W.E.B. Du Bois to the John F. Slater Fund
March 10
1893 Booker T. Washington to W.E.B. Du Bois
July 15
1902 W.E.B. Du Bois to Vernealia Fereira
December 14
1904 John Hope to W.E.B. Du Bois
January 17
1910 W.E.B. Du Bois to John Hope
January 22
1910 Alice Dunbar to John Edward Bruce
March 23
1914 James Emman Kwegyir Aggrey to Sadie Peterson Delaney
March 14
1924 John Hope to W.E.B. Du Bois
November 15
1924 W.E.B. Du Bois to John Hope
March 25
1925 W.E.B. Du Bois to Bureau of Education Commissioner William John Cooper
December 18
1929 Carter G. Woodson to John Hope
December 24
1931 Alain Locke to James Weldon Johnson
March 7
1934 Countee Cullen to James Weldon Johnson
June 7
1934 Shirley Graham to W.E.B. Du Bois
June 23
1934 Sterling A. Brown to W.E.B. Du Bois
January 29
1935 Horace Mann Bond to Arthur A. Schomburg
September 19
1936 Arthur A. Schomburg to Jacob Drachler
January 10
1938 Kenneth B. Clark to Mr. Swift
September 17
1940 Congressman Adam Clayton Powell
Jr.
to Rev. Hugh Burr
March 16
1956 Jean Fairfax to U.S. Education Commissioner Francis Keppel
March 6
1967 Derrick Bell
Jr.
to Office for Civil Rights Staff
August 15
1967 U.S. Senator Edward W. Brooke III to President Richard M. Nixon
June 25
1969 Derrick Bell
Jr.
to Justice Thurgood Marshall
October 2
1969 Justice Thurgood Marshall to Derrick Bell
Jr.
October 1969 Kenneth B. Clark to The New York Times
August 7
1979 Derrick Bell
Jr.
to Dean Robert Clark
April 9
1990 Walter J. Leonard to Angela M. Leonard
July 28
1997 Walter J. Leonard to Angela M. Leonard
November 6
2002 Rev. Bernard Chris Dorsey to Walter Broadnax
April 17
2007 Dr. Frank L. Douglas to Claude Canizares
MIT Vice President for Research
June 1
2007 Dr. Frank L. Douglas to His MIT Colleagues and Friends
June 1
2007 PART V: War John Boston to His Wife
January 12
1862 Lewis Douglass to Amelia Loguen
July 20
1863 James Henry Gooding to President Abraham Lincoln
September 28
1863 Nancy Allcorn to Missouri Provost Marshall
May 16
1864 George Rodgers et al. to President Abraham Lincoln
August 1864 • Roanoke Island
North Carolina
Freedmen to Secretary of War Edwin M. Stanton
March 9
1865 M. W. Saddler to The Freeman Newspaper
September 1899 Patrick Mason to Editor of The Gazette Newspaper
November 19
1899 Unnamed Soldier to New York Age Editor
May 17
1900 James A. Davis to Pecola Johnson Davis
October 1
1918 Canute Frankson to a Dear Friend
July 6
1937 Canute Frankson to “My Dear
” July 23
1937 Canute Frankson to “Dearest
” April 13
1938 Leigh Whipper to Benjamin O. Davis
January 28
1941 Mr. and Mrs. James S. Watson to Private James L. Watson
January 23
1943 Lenwood Waller to Pauline Perry
May 7
1945 Bayard Rustin to Local Board No. 63
New York City
November 16
1943 A. Philip Randolph to Bayard Rustin
April 17
1944 A. Philip Randolph to Secretary of Defense George C. Marshall
October 30
1950 Lester B. Granger to Navy Secretary Dan A. Kimball
October 24
1952 U.S. Senator Edward W. Brooke III to President Richard M. Nixon
October 23
1969 U.S. Senator Edward W. Brooke III to President Richard M. Nixon
May 11
1970 Gen. Colin L. Powell to the Students of East Pike Elementary School
August 22
1991 Gen. Colin L. Powell to Friends of Sgt. Maj. William Harrington
March 26
1994 Capt. Eric Mitchell to Friends and Family
2003 Maj. David Scott Harris to Lois D. Cherry
March 23
2003 Lois D. Cherry to Maj. David Scott Harris
March 23
2003 Maj. David Scott Harris to Lois D. Cherry
April 3
2003 Commanding Officer Craig S. Prather
PE
MBA
to My Dalton Family
December 25
2006 PART VI : Art and Culture Phillis Wheatley to Gen. George Washington
October 26
1775 Paul Laurence Dunbar to Alice Ruth Moore
April 17
1895 Alice Ruth Moore to Paul Laurence Dunbar
May 7
1895 Paul Laurence Dunbar to Booker T. Washington
January 23
1902 Claude A. Barnett to Jean Toomer
April 23
1923 Jean Toomer to Claude A. Barnett
April 29
1923 Countee Cullen to Langston Hughes
May 14
1924 Countee Cullen to Langston Hughes
October 8
1924 W.E.B. Du Bois to Roland Hayes
November 30
1925 Roland Hayes to W.E.B. Du Bois
December 16
1925 Alain Locke to A’Lelia Walker
October 12
1928 Zora Neale Hurston to Langston Hughes
December 10
1929 Jean Toomer to James Weldon Johnson
July 11
1930 James Weldon Johnson to Jean Toomer
July 26
1930 Langston Hughes to James Weldon Johnson
August 14
1931 Zora Neale Hurston to James Weldon Johnson
April 16
1934 Zora Neale Hurston to Dorothy West
Undated Claude McKay to James Weldon Johnson
May 31
1935 Ralph Ellison to Langston Hughes
August 24
1936 Claude McKay to James Weldon Johnson
April 2
1937 Ralph Ellison to Langston Hughes
April 27
1937 Arthur A. Schomburg to Langston Hughes
January 3
1938 Arthur A. Schomburg to Caterina Jarboro
March 21
1938 Richard Wright to Antonio Frasconi
November 1944 Richard Wright to David L. Cohn
The Atlantic Monthly
May 1945 Langston Hughes to John Johnson
October 14
1945 Ralph Ellison to Langston Hughes
August 25
1947 Ralph Ellison to Kenneth Burke
August 25
1947 Fredi Washington to Darr Smith
August 2
1949 James Hubert “Eubie” Blake to Flournoy E. Miller
October 30
1949 Bobby Short to Fredi Washington
May 18
1952 Langston Hughes to Arna Bontemps
February 18
1953 Arna Bontemps to Langston Hughes
March 4
1953 Ralph Ellison to Mrs. Turner
March 31
1953 James Hubert “Eubie” Blake to Flournoy E. Miller
October 9
1954 Josephine Baker to Langston Hughes
December 23
1964 Alice Walker to Derrick Bell
Jr.
May 20
1986 William T. Williams to David C. Driskell
October 5
1988 Howardena Pindell to Charles Reeve
editor of Art Papers
May 30
2002 PART VII : Across the Diaspora Mack Nichols et al. to Rev. Alexander Crummel
October 4
1865 George T. Downing to Alexander Crummel
May 18
1897 Alexander Crummel to John W. Cromwell
June 15
1897 John R. Archer to John Edward Bruce
January 17
1914 James Emman Kwegyir Aggrey to Arthur A. Schomburg
May 28
1918 James Emman Kwegyir Aggrey to John Edward Bruce
June 28
1922 J. E. Casely Hayford to John Edward Bruce
November 24
1923 W.E.B. Du Bois to Liberian President Honorable Charles Dunbar Burgess King
January 21
1924 Marcus Garvey to Negroes of the World
February 10
1925 W.E.B. Du Bois to Harvey S. Firestone
October 26
1925 Louis-Marie Dantès Bellegarde to Arthur A. Schomburg
March 11
1932 Arthur A. Schomburg to Louis-Marie Dantès Bellegarde
May 3
1934 Marcus Garvey to Norton Cruickshank
June 10
1937 Fredi Washington to Ademola Johnson
September 23
1949 WilliamAlphaeus Hunton
Jr.
to Ghanaian President Kwame Nkrumah
May 4
1962 Charles Adjei to Lois Okudzeto
June 2003 Acknowledgments Index
Introduction xvii A Note on the Text xxi PART I : Family Hannah Grover to Her Son Cato
June 3
1805 George Pleasant to Agnes Hobbs
September 6
1833 Lucy Smith to Sarah Boon
May 1
1842 Abream Scriven to Dinah Jones
September 19
1858 James Tate to His Wife
February 4
1863 Ann Valentine to Andrew Valentine
January 19
1864 Mandy McCinny to George McCinny
May 11
1864 Susanah Hart to Mark Hart
February 23
1865 Martha Bruce to John Edward Bruce
September 23
1887 Paul Laurence Dunbar to Matilda Dunbar
June 6
1893 Matilda Dunbar to Paul Laurence Dunbar
June 8
1895 Paul Laurence Dunbar to Matilda Dunbar
November 25
1897 Matilda Dunbar to Paul Laurence Dunbar
July 5
1901 Mary Church Terrell to Robert H. Terrell
July 9
1902 Robert H. Terrell to Mary Church Terrell
Undated Robert H. Terrell to Mary Church Terrell
December 30
1913 W.E.B. Du Bois to Yolande Du Bois
March 13
1907 W.E.B. Du Bois to Yolande Du Bois
October 29
1914 Dr. William R. R. Granger
Sr.
to Son
October 8
1911 Dr. William R. R. Granger
Sr.
to W.R.R. Granger
Jr.
September 30
1914 Dr. A. T. Granger to Dr. W.R.R. Granger
Jr.
August 5
1917 Lester B. Granger to Dr. W.R.R. Granger
Jr.
July 15
1930 Lester B. Granger to Dr. W.R.R. Granger
Jr.
February 23
1932 Madam C. J. Walker to A’Lelia Walker
May 16
1919 Grace Nail Johnson to James Weldon Johnson
June 19
1929 Leigh Whipper to Dr. Ionia Whipper
September 8
1930 Robert Murphy to Matilda Dunbar
October 30
1933 Ralph Ellison to Ida Millsap Ellison
April 20
1937 Ralph Ellison to Ida Millsap Ellison
August 30
1937 The Watson Children to Justice James S. Watson
Undated
1937 James L. Watson to Justice James S. Watson
May 16
1943 Doug Watson to Justice James S. Watson
September 29
1947 Martin Luther King
Jr.
to Martin Luther King
Sr.
June 15
1944 Julia Davis Rustin to Bayard Rustin
April 15
1946 Martin Luther King
Jr.
to Alberta King
October 1948 Edith Braithwaite to William Stanley Braithwaite
December 27
1954 William Stanley Braithwaite to Edith Braithwaite
September 27
1956 Adam Clayton Powell
Jr.
to Hazel Scott Powell
October 11
1957 Dr. Martin Luther King
Jr.
to Coretta Scott King
October 26
1960 Medgar Evers to Myrlie Evers and Children
November 27
1962 Urnestine Lewis to David Levering Lewis
September 7
1963 Derrick Bell
Jr.
to Derrick Bell
Sr.
July 26
1967 Joseph F. Beam to Mom and Dad
May 29
1976 Walter J. Leonard to Angela Leonard
April 16
1991 Walter J. Leonard to Mamie K. Singleton
November 10
1992 Queen Esther Gupton Cheatham Jones to Renée Cheatham Neblett
March 1993 Queen Esther Gupton Cheatham Jones to Renée Cheatham Neblett
Undated
circa 1996 Thomas Allen Harris to Lyle Ashton Harris
Undated
1998 Michael Leon Thomas to Mom and Dad
October 12
2000 Walter J. Leonard to Angela M. Leonard
May 12
2005 PART II : Courtship and Romance Nicey E. Bush to Harvey Moore
September 14
1869 Harvey Moore to Nicey E. Bush
October 26
1869 Harvey Moore to Nicey E. Bush
December 20
1869 Paul Laurence Dunbar to Alice Ruth Moore
March 7
1897 Roscoe Conkling Bruce to Clara Burrill
January 3
1903 Clara Burrill to Roscoe Conkling Bruce
Undated
1903 Roscoe Conkling Bruce to Clara Burrill
January 31
1903 Roscoe Conkling Bruce to Clara Burrill
February 19
[1903] Dr. James Arthur Kennedy to A’Lelia Walker
December 8
1921 Dr. Henry Arthur Callis to Myra Colson
December 24
1925 Dr. Henry Arthur Callis to Myra Colson
January 7
1926 Robert Keyes to Hattie Haynes
April 15
1928 Fredi Washington to Lawrence Brown
June 22
1932 Lawrence Brown to Fredi Washington
Undated Fredi Washington to Lawrence Brown
September 29
1934 Charles Drew to Minnie Lenore Robbins
April 9
1939 Charles Drew to Minnie Lenore Robbins
1939 Charles Drew to Minnie Lenore Robbins
April 21
1939 Martin Luther King
Jr.
to Coretta Scott
July 18
1952 Rev. Martin Luther King
Jr.
to Coretta Scott King
February 14
1957 Booker T. Washington III to Joyce Dodson Washington
February 4
1968 Walter D. Broadnax to Angel Wheelock Marshall
March 28
1984 Francesca Momplaisir to Nnabu Gogoh
May 8
1999 Nnabu Gogoh to Francesca Momplaisir
June 10
2000 Nnabu Gogoh to Francesca Momplaisir
September 28
2000 PART III : Politics and Social Justice Phillis Wheatley to Rev. Samson Occom
February 11
1774 Benjamin Banneker to Secretary of State Thomas Jefferson
August 19
1791 Frederick Douglass to Captain Thomas Auld
September 3
1848 Fugitive Slaves to Enslaved Brethren
November 5
1850 Annie Davis to President Abraham Lincoln
August 25
1864 Sojourner Truth to Rowland Johnson
November 17
1864 Frederick Douglass to Readers
June 13
1872 Whitefield McKinlay to Booker T. Washington
November 1
1901 Booker T. Washington to Whitefield McKinlay
November 6
1901 Booker T. Washington to Whitefield McKinlay
February 18
1902 Ida B. Wells-Barnett to Anti-Lynching Bureau
January 1
1902 Robert Smalls to Whitefield McKinlay
November 10
1909 Robert Smalls to Whitefield McKinlay
September 12
1912 W.E.B. Du Bois to President Woodrow Wilson
October 10
1916 James Weldon Johnson to President Warren G. Harding
September 19
1921 Arthur A. Schomburg to Wendell Dabney
December 12
1933 Roy Wilkins to Eleanor Roosevelt
Undated
1934 Walter White to Thurgood Marshall
March 1
1935 Claude McKay to James Weldon Johnson
May 8
1935 Congressman Adam Clayton Powell
Jr.
to Eleanor Roosevelt
November 5
1956 Congressman Adam Clayton Powell
Jr.
to U.S. Senator John F. Kennedy
November 5
1957 Dr. Martin Luther King
Jr.
to President John F. Kennedy
September 11
1962 Dr. Martin Luther King
Jr.
to White Clergymen
April 16
1963 James Baldwin to His Nephew James
1963 Rev. Adam Clayton Powell
Jr.
to Dr. Martin Luther King
Jr.
January 27
1964 Shirley Du Bois to Langston Hughes
March 7
1965 Jean Fairfax to Minnie and A. J. Lewis
July 23
1965 U.S. Senator Edward W. Brooke III to President Richard M. Nixon
March 27
1969 U.S. Senator Edward W. Brooke III to Secretary of State William P. Rogers
May 27
1969 Bayard Rustin to Eldridge Cleaver
January 24
1977 Bayard Rustin to Mayor Edward I. Koch
February 25
1985 Rev. Jeremiah A. Wright
Jr.
to Jodi Kantor
March 2007 Toni Morrison to U.S. Senator Barack Obama
January 28
2008 AliceWalker to President-Elect Barack Obama
November 5
2008 PART IV: Education and the Art of Scholarship Booker T. Washington to Emily Howland
Undated W.E.B. Du Bois to Harvard University
October 29
1887 W.E.B. Du Bois to the John F. Slater Fund
March 10
1893 Booker T. Washington to W.E.B. Du Bois
July 15
1902 W.E.B. Du Bois to Vernealia Fereira
December 14
1904 John Hope to W.E.B. Du Bois
January 17
1910 W.E.B. Du Bois to John Hope
January 22
1910 Alice Dunbar to John Edward Bruce
March 23
1914 James Emman Kwegyir Aggrey to Sadie Peterson Delaney
March 14
1924 John Hope to W.E.B. Du Bois
November 15
1924 W.E.B. Du Bois to John Hope
March 25
1925 W.E.B. Du Bois to Bureau of Education Commissioner William John Cooper
December 18
1929 Carter G. Woodson to John Hope
December 24
1931 Alain Locke to James Weldon Johnson
March 7
1934 Countee Cullen to James Weldon Johnson
June 7
1934 Shirley Graham to W.E.B. Du Bois
June 23
1934 Sterling A. Brown to W.E.B. Du Bois
January 29
1935 Horace Mann Bond to Arthur A. Schomburg
September 19
1936 Arthur A. Schomburg to Jacob Drachler
January 10
1938 Kenneth B. Clark to Mr. Swift
September 17
1940 Congressman Adam Clayton Powell
Jr.
to Rev. Hugh Burr
March 16
1956 Jean Fairfax to U.S. Education Commissioner Francis Keppel
March 6
1967 Derrick Bell
Jr.
to Office for Civil Rights Staff
August 15
1967 U.S. Senator Edward W. Brooke III to President Richard M. Nixon
June 25
1969 Derrick Bell
Jr.
to Justice Thurgood Marshall
October 2
1969 Justice Thurgood Marshall to Derrick Bell
Jr.
October 1969 Kenneth B. Clark to The New York Times
August 7
1979 Derrick Bell
Jr.
to Dean Robert Clark
April 9
1990 Walter J. Leonard to Angela M. Leonard
July 28
1997 Walter J. Leonard to Angela M. Leonard
November 6
2002 Rev. Bernard Chris Dorsey to Walter Broadnax
April 17
2007 Dr. Frank L. Douglas to Claude Canizares
MIT Vice President for Research
June 1
2007 Dr. Frank L. Douglas to His MIT Colleagues and Friends
June 1
2007 PART V: War John Boston to His Wife
January 12
1862 Lewis Douglass to Amelia Loguen
July 20
1863 James Henry Gooding to President Abraham Lincoln
September 28
1863 Nancy Allcorn to Missouri Provost Marshall
May 16
1864 George Rodgers et al. to President Abraham Lincoln
August 1864 • Roanoke Island
North Carolina
Freedmen to Secretary of War Edwin M. Stanton
March 9
1865 M. W. Saddler to The Freeman Newspaper
September 1899 Patrick Mason to Editor of The Gazette Newspaper
November 19
1899 Unnamed Soldier to New York Age Editor
May 17
1900 James A. Davis to Pecola Johnson Davis
October 1
1918 Canute Frankson to a Dear Friend
July 6
1937 Canute Frankson to “My Dear
” July 23
1937 Canute Frankson to “Dearest
” April 13
1938 Leigh Whipper to Benjamin O. Davis
January 28
1941 Mr. and Mrs. James S. Watson to Private James L. Watson
January 23
1943 Lenwood Waller to Pauline Perry
May 7
1945 Bayard Rustin to Local Board No. 63
New York City
November 16
1943 A. Philip Randolph to Bayard Rustin
April 17
1944 A. Philip Randolph to Secretary of Defense George C. Marshall
October 30
1950 Lester B. Granger to Navy Secretary Dan A. Kimball
October 24
1952 U.S. Senator Edward W. Brooke III to President Richard M. Nixon
October 23
1969 U.S. Senator Edward W. Brooke III to President Richard M. Nixon
May 11
1970 Gen. Colin L. Powell to the Students of East Pike Elementary School
August 22
1991 Gen. Colin L. Powell to Friends of Sgt. Maj. William Harrington
March 26
1994 Capt. Eric Mitchell to Friends and Family
2003 Maj. David Scott Harris to Lois D. Cherry
March 23
2003 Lois D. Cherry to Maj. David Scott Harris
March 23
2003 Maj. David Scott Harris to Lois D. Cherry
April 3
2003 Commanding Officer Craig S. Prather
PE
MBA
to My Dalton Family
December 25
2006 PART VI : Art and Culture Phillis Wheatley to Gen. George Washington
October 26
1775 Paul Laurence Dunbar to Alice Ruth Moore
April 17
1895 Alice Ruth Moore to Paul Laurence Dunbar
May 7
1895 Paul Laurence Dunbar to Booker T. Washington
January 23
1902 Claude A. Barnett to Jean Toomer
April 23
1923 Jean Toomer to Claude A. Barnett
April 29
1923 Countee Cullen to Langston Hughes
May 14
1924 Countee Cullen to Langston Hughes
October 8
1924 W.E.B. Du Bois to Roland Hayes
November 30
1925 Roland Hayes to W.E.B. Du Bois
December 16
1925 Alain Locke to A’Lelia Walker
October 12
1928 Zora Neale Hurston to Langston Hughes
December 10
1929 Jean Toomer to James Weldon Johnson
July 11
1930 James Weldon Johnson to Jean Toomer
July 26
1930 Langston Hughes to James Weldon Johnson
August 14
1931 Zora Neale Hurston to James Weldon Johnson
April 16
1934 Zora Neale Hurston to Dorothy West
Undated Claude McKay to James Weldon Johnson
May 31
1935 Ralph Ellison to Langston Hughes
August 24
1936 Claude McKay to James Weldon Johnson
April 2
1937 Ralph Ellison to Langston Hughes
April 27
1937 Arthur A. Schomburg to Langston Hughes
January 3
1938 Arthur A. Schomburg to Caterina Jarboro
March 21
1938 Richard Wright to Antonio Frasconi
November 1944 Richard Wright to David L. Cohn
The Atlantic Monthly
May 1945 Langston Hughes to John Johnson
October 14
1945 Ralph Ellison to Langston Hughes
August 25
1947 Ralph Ellison to Kenneth Burke
August 25
1947 Fredi Washington to Darr Smith
August 2
1949 James Hubert “Eubie” Blake to Flournoy E. Miller
October 30
1949 Bobby Short to Fredi Washington
May 18
1952 Langston Hughes to Arna Bontemps
February 18
1953 Arna Bontemps to Langston Hughes
March 4
1953 Ralph Ellison to Mrs. Turner
March 31
1953 James Hubert “Eubie” Blake to Flournoy E. Miller
October 9
1954 Josephine Baker to Langston Hughes
December 23
1964 Alice Walker to Derrick Bell
Jr.
May 20
1986 William T. Williams to David C. Driskell
October 5
1988 Howardena Pindell to Charles Reeve
editor of Art Papers
May 30
2002 PART VII : Across the Diaspora Mack Nichols et al. to Rev. Alexander Crummel
October 4
1865 George T. Downing to Alexander Crummel
May 18
1897 Alexander Crummel to John W. Cromwell
June 15
1897 John R. Archer to John Edward Bruce
January 17
1914 James Emman Kwegyir Aggrey to Arthur A. Schomburg
May 28
1918 James Emman Kwegyir Aggrey to John Edward Bruce
June 28
1922 J. E. Casely Hayford to John Edward Bruce
November 24
1923 W.E.B. Du Bois to Liberian President Honorable Charles Dunbar Burgess King
January 21
1924 Marcus Garvey to Negroes of the World
February 10
1925 W.E.B. Du Bois to Harvey S. Firestone
October 26
1925 Louis-Marie Dantès Bellegarde to Arthur A. Schomburg
March 11
1932 Arthur A. Schomburg to Louis-Marie Dantès Bellegarde
May 3
1934 Marcus Garvey to Norton Cruickshank
June 10
1937 Fredi Washington to Ademola Johnson
September 23
1949 WilliamAlphaeus Hunton
Jr.
to Ghanaian President Kwame Nkrumah
May 4
1962 Charles Adjei to Lois Okudzeto
June 2003 Acknowledgments Index
June 3
1805 George Pleasant to Agnes Hobbs
September 6
1833 Lucy Smith to Sarah Boon
May 1
1842 Abream Scriven to Dinah Jones
September 19
1858 James Tate to His Wife
February 4
1863 Ann Valentine to Andrew Valentine
January 19
1864 Mandy McCinny to George McCinny
May 11
1864 Susanah Hart to Mark Hart
February 23
1865 Martha Bruce to John Edward Bruce
September 23
1887 Paul Laurence Dunbar to Matilda Dunbar
June 6
1893 Matilda Dunbar to Paul Laurence Dunbar
June 8
1895 Paul Laurence Dunbar to Matilda Dunbar
November 25
1897 Matilda Dunbar to Paul Laurence Dunbar
July 5
1901 Mary Church Terrell to Robert H. Terrell
July 9
1902 Robert H. Terrell to Mary Church Terrell
Undated Robert H. Terrell to Mary Church Terrell
December 30
1913 W.E.B. Du Bois to Yolande Du Bois
March 13
1907 W.E.B. Du Bois to Yolande Du Bois
October 29
1914 Dr. William R. R. Granger
Sr.
to Son
October 8
1911 Dr. William R. R. Granger
Sr.
to W.R.R. Granger
Jr.
September 30
1914 Dr. A. T. Granger to Dr. W.R.R. Granger
Jr.
August 5
1917 Lester B. Granger to Dr. W.R.R. Granger
Jr.
July 15
1930 Lester B. Granger to Dr. W.R.R. Granger
Jr.
February 23
1932 Madam C. J. Walker to A’Lelia Walker
May 16
1919 Grace Nail Johnson to James Weldon Johnson
June 19
1929 Leigh Whipper to Dr. Ionia Whipper
September 8
1930 Robert Murphy to Matilda Dunbar
October 30
1933 Ralph Ellison to Ida Millsap Ellison
April 20
1937 Ralph Ellison to Ida Millsap Ellison
August 30
1937 The Watson Children to Justice James S. Watson
Undated
1937 James L. Watson to Justice James S. Watson
May 16
1943 Doug Watson to Justice James S. Watson
September 29
1947 Martin Luther King
Jr.
to Martin Luther King
Sr.
June 15
1944 Julia Davis Rustin to Bayard Rustin
April 15
1946 Martin Luther King
Jr.
to Alberta King
October 1948 Edith Braithwaite to William Stanley Braithwaite
December 27
1954 William Stanley Braithwaite to Edith Braithwaite
September 27
1956 Adam Clayton Powell
Jr.
to Hazel Scott Powell
October 11
1957 Dr. Martin Luther King
Jr.
to Coretta Scott King
October 26
1960 Medgar Evers to Myrlie Evers and Children
November 27
1962 Urnestine Lewis to David Levering Lewis
September 7
1963 Derrick Bell
Jr.
to Derrick Bell
Sr.
July 26
1967 Joseph F. Beam to Mom and Dad
May 29
1976 Walter J. Leonard to Angela Leonard
April 16
1991 Walter J. Leonard to Mamie K. Singleton
November 10
1992 Queen Esther Gupton Cheatham Jones to Renée Cheatham Neblett
March 1993 Queen Esther Gupton Cheatham Jones to Renée Cheatham Neblett
Undated
circa 1996 Thomas Allen Harris to Lyle Ashton Harris
Undated
1998 Michael Leon Thomas to Mom and Dad
October 12
2000 Walter J. Leonard to Angela M. Leonard
May 12
2005 PART II : Courtship and Romance Nicey E. Bush to Harvey Moore
September 14
1869 Harvey Moore to Nicey E. Bush
October 26
1869 Harvey Moore to Nicey E. Bush
December 20
1869 Paul Laurence Dunbar to Alice Ruth Moore
March 7
1897 Roscoe Conkling Bruce to Clara Burrill
January 3
1903 Clara Burrill to Roscoe Conkling Bruce
Undated
1903 Roscoe Conkling Bruce to Clara Burrill
January 31
1903 Roscoe Conkling Bruce to Clara Burrill
February 19
[1903] Dr. James Arthur Kennedy to A’Lelia Walker
December 8
1921 Dr. Henry Arthur Callis to Myra Colson
December 24
1925 Dr. Henry Arthur Callis to Myra Colson
January 7
1926 Robert Keyes to Hattie Haynes
April 15
1928 Fredi Washington to Lawrence Brown
June 22
1932 Lawrence Brown to Fredi Washington
Undated Fredi Washington to Lawrence Brown
September 29
1934 Charles Drew to Minnie Lenore Robbins
April 9
1939 Charles Drew to Minnie Lenore Robbins
1939 Charles Drew to Minnie Lenore Robbins
April 21
1939 Martin Luther King
Jr.
to Coretta Scott
July 18
1952 Rev. Martin Luther King
Jr.
to Coretta Scott King
February 14
1957 Booker T. Washington III to Joyce Dodson Washington
February 4
1968 Walter D. Broadnax to Angel Wheelock Marshall
March 28
1984 Francesca Momplaisir to Nnabu Gogoh
May 8
1999 Nnabu Gogoh to Francesca Momplaisir
June 10
2000 Nnabu Gogoh to Francesca Momplaisir
September 28
2000 PART III : Politics and Social Justice Phillis Wheatley to Rev. Samson Occom
February 11
1774 Benjamin Banneker to Secretary of State Thomas Jefferson
August 19
1791 Frederick Douglass to Captain Thomas Auld
September 3
1848 Fugitive Slaves to Enslaved Brethren
November 5
1850 Annie Davis to President Abraham Lincoln
August 25
1864 Sojourner Truth to Rowland Johnson
November 17
1864 Frederick Douglass to Readers
June 13
1872 Whitefield McKinlay to Booker T. Washington
November 1
1901 Booker T. Washington to Whitefield McKinlay
November 6
1901 Booker T. Washington to Whitefield McKinlay
February 18
1902 Ida B. Wells-Barnett to Anti-Lynching Bureau
January 1
1902 Robert Smalls to Whitefield McKinlay
November 10
1909 Robert Smalls to Whitefield McKinlay
September 12
1912 W.E.B. Du Bois to President Woodrow Wilson
October 10
1916 James Weldon Johnson to President Warren G. Harding
September 19
1921 Arthur A. Schomburg to Wendell Dabney
December 12
1933 Roy Wilkins to Eleanor Roosevelt
Undated
1934 Walter White to Thurgood Marshall
March 1
1935 Claude McKay to James Weldon Johnson
May 8
1935 Congressman Adam Clayton Powell
Jr.
to Eleanor Roosevelt
November 5
1956 Congressman Adam Clayton Powell
Jr.
to U.S. Senator John F. Kennedy
November 5
1957 Dr. Martin Luther King
Jr.
to President John F. Kennedy
September 11
1962 Dr. Martin Luther King
Jr.
to White Clergymen
April 16
1963 James Baldwin to His Nephew James
1963 Rev. Adam Clayton Powell
Jr.
to Dr. Martin Luther King
Jr.
January 27
1964 Shirley Du Bois to Langston Hughes
March 7
1965 Jean Fairfax to Minnie and A. J. Lewis
July 23
1965 U.S. Senator Edward W. Brooke III to President Richard M. Nixon
March 27
1969 U.S. Senator Edward W. Brooke III to Secretary of State William P. Rogers
May 27
1969 Bayard Rustin to Eldridge Cleaver
January 24
1977 Bayard Rustin to Mayor Edward I. Koch
February 25
1985 Rev. Jeremiah A. Wright
Jr.
to Jodi Kantor
March 2007 Toni Morrison to U.S. Senator Barack Obama
January 28
2008 AliceWalker to President-Elect Barack Obama
November 5
2008 PART IV: Education and the Art of Scholarship Booker T. Washington to Emily Howland
Undated W.E.B. Du Bois to Harvard University
October 29
1887 W.E.B. Du Bois to the John F. Slater Fund
March 10
1893 Booker T. Washington to W.E.B. Du Bois
July 15
1902 W.E.B. Du Bois to Vernealia Fereira
December 14
1904 John Hope to W.E.B. Du Bois
January 17
1910 W.E.B. Du Bois to John Hope
January 22
1910 Alice Dunbar to John Edward Bruce
March 23
1914 James Emman Kwegyir Aggrey to Sadie Peterson Delaney
March 14
1924 John Hope to W.E.B. Du Bois
November 15
1924 W.E.B. Du Bois to John Hope
March 25
1925 W.E.B. Du Bois to Bureau of Education Commissioner William John Cooper
December 18
1929 Carter G. Woodson to John Hope
December 24
1931 Alain Locke to James Weldon Johnson
March 7
1934 Countee Cullen to James Weldon Johnson
June 7
1934 Shirley Graham to W.E.B. Du Bois
June 23
1934 Sterling A. Brown to W.E.B. Du Bois
January 29
1935 Horace Mann Bond to Arthur A. Schomburg
September 19
1936 Arthur A. Schomburg to Jacob Drachler
January 10
1938 Kenneth B. Clark to Mr. Swift
September 17
1940 Congressman Adam Clayton Powell
Jr.
to Rev. Hugh Burr
March 16
1956 Jean Fairfax to U.S. Education Commissioner Francis Keppel
March 6
1967 Derrick Bell
Jr.
to Office for Civil Rights Staff
August 15
1967 U.S. Senator Edward W. Brooke III to President Richard M. Nixon
June 25
1969 Derrick Bell
Jr.
to Justice Thurgood Marshall
October 2
1969 Justice Thurgood Marshall to Derrick Bell
Jr.
October 1969 Kenneth B. Clark to The New York Times
August 7
1979 Derrick Bell
Jr.
to Dean Robert Clark
April 9
1990 Walter J. Leonard to Angela M. Leonard
July 28
1997 Walter J. Leonard to Angela M. Leonard
November 6
2002 Rev. Bernard Chris Dorsey to Walter Broadnax
April 17
2007 Dr. Frank L. Douglas to Claude Canizares
MIT Vice President for Research
June 1
2007 Dr. Frank L. Douglas to His MIT Colleagues and Friends
June 1
2007 PART V: War John Boston to His Wife
January 12
1862 Lewis Douglass to Amelia Loguen
July 20
1863 James Henry Gooding to President Abraham Lincoln
September 28
1863 Nancy Allcorn to Missouri Provost Marshall
May 16
1864 George Rodgers et al. to President Abraham Lincoln
August 1864 • Roanoke Island
North Carolina
Freedmen to Secretary of War Edwin M. Stanton
March 9
1865 M. W. Saddler to The Freeman Newspaper
September 1899 Patrick Mason to Editor of The Gazette Newspaper
November 19
1899 Unnamed Soldier to New York Age Editor
May 17
1900 James A. Davis to Pecola Johnson Davis
October 1
1918 Canute Frankson to a Dear Friend
July 6
1937 Canute Frankson to “My Dear
” July 23
1937 Canute Frankson to “Dearest
” April 13
1938 Leigh Whipper to Benjamin O. Davis
January 28
1941 Mr. and Mrs. James S. Watson to Private James L. Watson
January 23
1943 Lenwood Waller to Pauline Perry
May 7
1945 Bayard Rustin to Local Board No. 63
New York City
November 16
1943 A. Philip Randolph to Bayard Rustin
April 17
1944 A. Philip Randolph to Secretary of Defense George C. Marshall
October 30
1950 Lester B. Granger to Navy Secretary Dan A. Kimball
October 24
1952 U.S. Senator Edward W. Brooke III to President Richard M. Nixon
October 23
1969 U.S. Senator Edward W. Brooke III to President Richard M. Nixon
May 11
1970 Gen. Colin L. Powell to the Students of East Pike Elementary School
August 22
1991 Gen. Colin L. Powell to Friends of Sgt. Maj. William Harrington
March 26
1994 Capt. Eric Mitchell to Friends and Family
2003 Maj. David Scott Harris to Lois D. Cherry
March 23
2003 Lois D. Cherry to Maj. David Scott Harris
March 23
2003 Maj. David Scott Harris to Lois D. Cherry
April 3
2003 Commanding Officer Craig S. Prather
PE
MBA
to My Dalton Family
December 25
2006 PART VI : Art and Culture Phillis Wheatley to Gen. George Washington
October 26
1775 Paul Laurence Dunbar to Alice Ruth Moore
April 17
1895 Alice Ruth Moore to Paul Laurence Dunbar
May 7
1895 Paul Laurence Dunbar to Booker T. Washington
January 23
1902 Claude A. Barnett to Jean Toomer
April 23
1923 Jean Toomer to Claude A. Barnett
April 29
1923 Countee Cullen to Langston Hughes
May 14
1924 Countee Cullen to Langston Hughes
October 8
1924 W.E.B. Du Bois to Roland Hayes
November 30
1925 Roland Hayes to W.E.B. Du Bois
December 16
1925 Alain Locke to A’Lelia Walker
October 12
1928 Zora Neale Hurston to Langston Hughes
December 10
1929 Jean Toomer to James Weldon Johnson
July 11
1930 James Weldon Johnson to Jean Toomer
July 26
1930 Langston Hughes to James Weldon Johnson
August 14
1931 Zora Neale Hurston to James Weldon Johnson
April 16
1934 Zora Neale Hurston to Dorothy West
Undated Claude McKay to James Weldon Johnson
May 31
1935 Ralph Ellison to Langston Hughes
August 24
1936 Claude McKay to James Weldon Johnson
April 2
1937 Ralph Ellison to Langston Hughes
April 27
1937 Arthur A. Schomburg to Langston Hughes
January 3
1938 Arthur A. Schomburg to Caterina Jarboro
March 21
1938 Richard Wright to Antonio Frasconi
November 1944 Richard Wright to David L. Cohn
The Atlantic Monthly
May 1945 Langston Hughes to John Johnson
October 14
1945 Ralph Ellison to Langston Hughes
August 25
1947 Ralph Ellison to Kenneth Burke
August 25
1947 Fredi Washington to Darr Smith
August 2
1949 James Hubert “Eubie” Blake to Flournoy E. Miller
October 30
1949 Bobby Short to Fredi Washington
May 18
1952 Langston Hughes to Arna Bontemps
February 18
1953 Arna Bontemps to Langston Hughes
March 4
1953 Ralph Ellison to Mrs. Turner
March 31
1953 James Hubert “Eubie” Blake to Flournoy E. Miller
October 9
1954 Josephine Baker to Langston Hughes
December 23
1964 Alice Walker to Derrick Bell
Jr.
May 20
1986 William T. Williams to David C. Driskell
October 5
1988 Howardena Pindell to Charles Reeve
editor of Art Papers
May 30
2002 PART VII : Across the Diaspora Mack Nichols et al. to Rev. Alexander Crummel
October 4
1865 George T. Downing to Alexander Crummel
May 18
1897 Alexander Crummel to John W. Cromwell
June 15
1897 John R. Archer to John Edward Bruce
January 17
1914 James Emman Kwegyir Aggrey to Arthur A. Schomburg
May 28
1918 James Emman Kwegyir Aggrey to John Edward Bruce
June 28
1922 J. E. Casely Hayford to John Edward Bruce
November 24
1923 W.E.B. Du Bois to Liberian President Honorable Charles Dunbar Burgess King
January 21
1924 Marcus Garvey to Negroes of the World
February 10
1925 W.E.B. Du Bois to Harvey S. Firestone
October 26
1925 Louis-Marie Dantès Bellegarde to Arthur A. Schomburg
March 11
1932 Arthur A. Schomburg to Louis-Marie Dantès Bellegarde
May 3
1934 Marcus Garvey to Norton Cruickshank
June 10
1937 Fredi Washington to Ademola Johnson
September 23
1949 WilliamAlphaeus Hunton
Jr.
to Ghanaian President Kwame Nkrumah
May 4
1962 Charles Adjei to Lois Okudzeto
June 2003 Acknowledgments Index