The Schlager Anthology of Black America: A Student's Guide to Essential Primary Sources

Editor: Royles, Dan
Publication Year: 2021
Publisher: Schlager Group Inc.

Price: Core Collection Only
ISBN: 978-1-93-530658-0
Category: History - United States -- History
Image Count: 199
Book Status: Available
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The Schlager Anthology of Black America offers a modern, original sourcebook covering Black history from the 1500s to the present.

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Table of Contents

  • Reader’s Guide
  • Contributors
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction
  • Part 1: 1540s-1874
  • Chapter 1: Many Thousands Gone: Black Experiences in Colonial America
  • “Narratives of Estevanico el Negro in the Southwest”
  • Virginia’s Act XII: Negro Women’s Children to Serve according to the Condition of the Mother
  • Virginia’s Act III: Baptism Does Not Exempt Slaves from Bondage
  • “A Minute Against Slavery, Addressed to Germantown Monthly Meeting”
  • Maryland: An Act Concerning Negro Slaves
  • Virginia: An Act Concerning Servants and Slaves
  • Louisiana’s Code Noir
  • James Oglethorpe: “An Account of the Negroe Insurrection in South Carolina”
  • John Woolman: Some Considerations on Keeping Negroes
  • Antoine Simone Le Page du Pratz: The History of Louisiana
  • Alexander Falconbridge: An Account of the Slave Trade on the Coast of Africa
  • The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, or Gustavus Vassa, the African
  • Venture Smith: A Narrative of the Life and Adventures of Venture, a Native of Africa
  • Chapter 2: In Hope of Liberty: African American Life in the Age of Revolution
  • Lord Dunmore’s Proclamation
  • Phillis Wheatley: “His Excellency General Washington”
  • Petition of Prince Hall and Other African Americans to the Massachusetts General Court
  • Pennsylvania: An Act for the Gradual Abolition of Slavery
  • “An Account of the Life of Mr. David George”
  • Chapter 3: Now Comes the Test: Race, Nation, and the Limits of Freedom in the Early Republic
  • Benjamin Banneker: Letter to Thomas Jefferson
  • Fugitive Slave Act of 1793
  • Richard Allen: “An Address to Those Who Keep Slaves, and Approve the Practice”
  • Prince Hall: “A Charge Delivered to the African Lodge”
  • Ohio Black Code
  • Letter of William C.C. Claiborne to James Madison
  • Peter Williams Jr.: “Oration on the Abolition of the Slave Trade”
  • Laws of the Creek Nation
  • Benjamin Latrobe: “New Orleans and Its People”
  • Missouri Compromise
  • Laws of the Cherokee Nation
  • Zephaniah Kingsley: “A Treatise on the Patriarchal System of Slavery”
  • “Jim Crow”
  • James Creecy: “Language, Dances, Etc. in New Orleans”
  • John C. Calhoun: “Slavery a Positive Good”
  • Victor Séjour: “The Mulatto”
  • United States v. Amistad
  • Salmon P. Chase: Reclamation of Fugitives from Service
  • Oregon Exclusion Law
  • Charles K. Whipple: “Slavery among the Cherokees and the Choctaws”
  • Chapter 4: There Is a River: Abolitionism and Black Protest in Antebellum America
  • Samuel Cornish and John Russwurm: First Freedom’s Journal Editorial
  • David Walker: Appeal to the Coloured Citizens of the World
  • William Lloyd Garrison: First Liberator Editorial
  • The Confessions of Nat Turner
  • Lydia Maria Child: An Appeal in Favor of That Class of Americans Called Africans
  • Henry Highland Garnet: “An Address to the Slaves of the United States of America”
  • William Lloyd Garrison: “Address to the Friends of Freedom and Emancipation in the United States”
  • Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
  • William Wells Brown: “Slavery As It Is”
  • Frederick Douglass: First Editorial of the North Star
  • Frederick Douglass: “Letter To My Old Master”
  • Bureel W. Mann: Letter to the American Colonization Society
  • Sojourner Truth: “Ain’t I a Woman?”
  • Narrative of the Life of Henry Box Brown, Written by Himself
  • Frederick Douglass: “Fourth of July” Speech
  • Martin Delany: The Condition, Elevation, Emigration, and Destiny of the Colored People of the United States
  • American Colonization Society: “Things Which Every Emigrant to Liberia Ought to Know”
  • Solomon Northup: Twelve Years a Slave
  • Elizabeth Cady Stanton: Speech for the Anniversary of the American Anti-Slavery Society
  • H. Ford Douglas: “Independence Day”
  • Harriet Jacobs: Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl
  • Chapter 5: A Divided Nation: The Turbulent Fifties
  • Compromise of 1850
  • Fugitive Slave Act of 1850
  • Dred Scott v. Sandford
  • John S. Rock: “Whenever the Colored Man Is Elevated, It Will Be by His Own Exertions”
  • William Lloyd Garrison: Speech Relating to the Execution of John Brown
  • Wendell Phillips: “The Puritan Principle and John Brown”
  • Virginia Slave Code
  • Osborne P. Anderson: A Voice from Harper’s Ferry
  • Chapter 6: The Dawn of Freedom: The Civil War and the Reconstruction of a Nation
  • W. L. Harris: Address to the Georgia General Assembly
  • Emancipation Proclamation
  • Frederick Douglass: “Men of Color, To Arms!”
  • U.S. War Department General Order 143
  • “An Ordinance to Organize and Establish Patrols for the Police of Slaves in the Parish of St. Landry”
  • Arnold Bertonneau: “Every Man Should Stand Equal before the Law”
  • James H. Payne: Letter about “Sister Penny”
  • Thomas Morris Chester: Civil War Dispatches
  • John Jones: “The Black Laws of Illinois: And a Few Reasons Why They Should Be Repealed”
  • William T. Sherman: Special Field Order No. 15
  • Thirteenth Amendment
  • Convention of Colored Men: Address to the Loyal Citizens of the United States and to Congress
  • Black Code of Mississippi
  • Testimony before the Joint Committee on Reconstruction on Atrocities in the South against Blacks
  • Wesley Norris: “Testimony of Wesley Norris”
  • Fourteenth Amendment
  • Henry McNeal Turner: Speech on His Expulsion from the Georgia Legislature
  • Initiation Charge of the Ku Klux Klan
  • Fifteenth Amendment
  • Richard Harvey Cain: “All That We Ask Is Equal Laws, Equal Legislation, and Equal Rights”
  • Part 2: 1877-1959
  • Chapter 7: The Betrayal of the Negro: Black Accommodation and Black Protest in the Era of Jim Crow
  • “The Largest Colored Colony in America”
  • Frederick Douglass: “Our National Capitol” Lecture
  • Report of the Minority, in Report and Testimony of the Select Committee to Investigate the Causes of the Removal of the Negroes from the Southern States to the Northern States
  • Pace v. Alabama
  • Report of the Select Committee to Inquire into the Mississippi Election of 1883
  • Lucy Parsons: “The Negro: Let Him Leave Politics to the Politician and Prayers to the Preacher”
  • Anna Julia Cooper: “Womanhood: A Vital Element in the Regeneration and Progress of a Race”
  • George Washington Williams: Open Letter to King Leopold on the Congo
  • John L. Moore: “In the Lion’s Mouth”
  • Josephine St. Pierre Ruffin: “Address to the First National Conference of Colored Women”
  • Booker T. Washington: Atlanta Exposition Address
  • Plessy v. Ferguson
  • W. E. B. Du Bois: “Strivings of the Negro People”
  • Mary Church Terrell: “The Progress of Colored Women”
  • H. T. Johnson: “The Black Man’s Burden”
  • James W. Poe: “The Slaughter in the Philippines and Its Relation to Massacres of Our People in the South”
  • John W. Galloway: Black Soldier’s Letter from the Philippines
  • James Weldon Johnson: “Lift Every Voice and Sing”
  • George H. White: Farewell Address to Congress
  • W. E. B. Du Bois: The Souls of Black Folk
  • W. E. B. Du Bois: “The Parting of the Ways”
  • Ida B. Wells: “Booker T. Washington and His Critics”
  • Niagara Movement Declaration of Principles
  • Kelly Miller: “The Economic Handicap of the Negro in the North”
  • Booker T. Washington: Letter to William Howard Taft
  • Ida B. Wells: “Lynching: Our National Crime”
  • Arthur A. Schomburg: “Racial Integrity: A Plea for the Establishment of a Chair of Negro History in Our Schools and Colleges, etc.”
  • Monroe Trotter: Protest to Woodrow Wilson
  • W. E. B. Du Bois: The Star of Ethiopia: A Pageant
  • “A Memorial to the Atlanta, Georgia, Board of Education”
  • Chapter 8: If We Must Die: World War I and the New Negro Renaissance
  • W. E. B. Du Bois: “The Migration of Negroes”
  • Robert Russa Moton: “The American Negro and the World War”
  • “The Colored Americans in France”
  • “Africa and the World Democracy”
  • W. E. B. Du Bois: “Returning Soldiers”
  • Claude McKay: “If We Must Die”
  • “How to Stop Lynching”
  • “The Negro and the Labor Union: An NAACP Report”
  • “The Riot at Longview, Texas”
  • William Pickens: “The Woman Voter Hits the Color Line”
  • Cyril Briggs: Summary of the Program and Aims of the African Blood Brotherhood
  • Walter F. White: “Election Day in Florida”
  • William Pickens: “Lynching and Debt Slavery”
  • Walter F. White: “The Eruption of Tulsa”
  • “To the World” (Manifesto of the Second Pan-African Congress)
  • Jessie Redmon Fauset: “Some Notes on Color”
  • Marcus Garvey: “The Principles of the Universal Negro Improvement Association”
  • Claude McKay: “Soviet Russia and the Negro”
  • Horace Mann Bond: “Intelligence Tests and Propaganda”
  • Eric D. Walrond: “Imperator Africanus—Marcus Garvey: Menace or Promise?”
  • Alain Locke: “Enter the New Negro”
  • James Weldon Johnson: “Harlem: The Culture Capital”
  • Marita O. Bonner: “On Being Young—A Woman—And Colored”
  • Helene Johnson: “Sonnet to a Negro in Harlem”
  • Alice Moore Dunbar-Nelson: “The Negro Woman and the Ballot”
  • Zora Neale Hurston: “How It Feels to Be Colored Me”
  • James Weldon Johnson: “Race Prejudice and the Negro Artist”
  • Manhattan Medical Society: “Equal Opportunity: No More, No Less!”
  • Carter G. Woodson: “The Miseducation of the Negro”
  • Buck Colbert Franklin: “The Tulsa Race Riot and Three of Its Victims”
  • Sterling Brown: “Ma Rainey”
  • Chapter 9: Making a New Deal: African Americans, Organized Labor, and Shifting Political Alliances
  • Elmer A. Carter: “Communism and the Negro Tenant Farmer”
  • “Appeal of the Scottsboro Mothers”
  • Cyril Briggs: “War in the East”
  • William Patterson: “Manifesto to the Negro People”
  • W. E. B. Du Bois: “Marxism and the Negro Problem”
  • Letter from Benjamin J. Davis to Samuel Leibowitz
  • Robert Clifton Weaver: “The New Deal and the Negro: A Look at the Facts”
  • Walter F. White: “U.S. Department of (White) Justice”
  • African Americans’ New Deal Letters to Franklin D. Roosevelt
  • John Henry: “Landlord, What in the Heaven Is the Matter with You?”
  • Richard Wright: “Blueprint for Negro Writing”
  • Mary McLeod Bethune: “What Does American Democracy Mean to Me?”
  • Folk Music of the United States, Album III: Afro-American Spirituals, Work Songs, and Ballads
  • Chapter 10: Double V: African Americans, World War II, and the Cold War
  • A. Philip Randolph: “Call to Negro America to March on Washington”
  • Bayard Rustin: “The Negro and Nonviolence”
  • National War Labor Board: Case No. 771 in the Matter of Southport Petroleum Company (Texas City, Texas) and Oil Workers’ International Union
  • Richard Wright: “The White Problem in the United States”
  • W. E. B. Du Bois: “An Appeal to the World”
  • To Secure These Rights
  • Charles Hamilton Houston: Petition in Hurd v. Hodge
  • Ralph J. Bunche: “The Barriers of Race Can Be Surmounted”
  • Civil Rights Congress: “We Charge Genocide”
  • Paul Robeson: “Ho Chi Minh Is the Toussaint L’Ouverture of Indo-China”
  • Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka
  • Adam Clayton Powell Jr.: Speech on Civil Rights
  • James W. May and William Gordon: “What I Tell My Child about Color”
  • Bayard Rustin: Montgomery Diary
  • The Southern Manifesto (Declaration of Constitutional Principles)
  • Paul Robeson: Testimony before HUAC
  • George McMillan: “The Ordeal of Bobby Cain”
  • Roy Wilkins: “The Clock Will Not Be Turned Back”
  • Charles C. Diggs Jr.: “Indifferent—or Irresponsible? U.S. Policy on Africa”
  • Part 3: 1955-2017
  • Chapter 11: From Montgomery to Selma: The Modern Civil Rights Movement
  • “Negroes’ Most Urgent Needs”
  • Ella Baker: “Bigger than a Hamburger”
  • George McMillan: “Mr. Local Custom Must Die”
  • Jeśus Colón: “Greetings from Washington” (from A Puerto Rican in New York)
  • Martin Luther King Jr.: “Letter from Birmingham Jail”
  • March on Washington Organizing Manual No. 2
  • Martin Luther King Jr.: “I Have a Dream”
  • Malcolm X: “Message to the Grass Roots”
  • Malcolm X: “The Ballot or the Bullet”
  • Fannie Lou Hamer: Testimony at the Democratic National Convention
  • Moynihan Report
  • Martin Luther King Jr.: “Beyond Vietnam: A Time to Break Silence”
  • Loving v. Virginia
  • Adam Clayton Powell Jr.: “Black Power: A Form of Godly Power”
  • Kerner Commission Report
  • Ella Baker: “The Black Woman in the Civil Rights Struggle”
  • Ella Baker: “Developing Community Leadership”
  • Interview with Gussie Nesbitt
  • Jo Ann Gibson Robinson: The Montgomery Bus Boycott and the Women Who Started It
  • Chapter 12: Say It Loud: Black Power and the Search for a New Radical Paradigm
  • Carlos Cooks: “Hair Conking, Buy Black”
  • Black Panther Party: “What We Want, What We Believe”
  • Stokely Carmichael: “Black Power”
  • Nguzo Saba (The Seven Principles)
  • Piri Thomas: “Brothers Under the Skin” (from Down These Mean Streets)
  • Hoyt Fuller: “Towards a Black Aesthetic”
  • “Ron Karenga and Black Cultural Nationalism”
  • “Mboya’s Rebuttal”
  • Eldridge Cleaver: “Education and Revolution”
  • Jesse Owens: Blackthink: My Life as Black Man and White Man
  • Statement by the Polaroid Revolutionary Workers Movement
  • Angela Davis: “Political Prisoners, Prisons, and Black Liberation”
  • Adam Clayton Powell Jr.: “Black Power and the Future of Black America”
  • Ishmael Reed: “Neo-HooDoo Manifesto”
  • FBI Report on Elijah Muhammad
  • Chapter 13: From the Bullet to the Ballot: Black Politics in the Post-Civil Rights Decade
  • National Black Political Convention: Gary Declaration
  • Final Report of the Tuskegee Syphilis Study Ad Hoc Advisory Panel
  • Time: “Cities: New Men for Detroit and Atlanta”
  • Shirley Chisholm: “The Black Woman in Contemporary America”
  • Regents of the University of California v. Bakke
  • Thurgood Marshall: Equality Speech
  • U.S. Commission on Civil Rights: “Affirmative Action in the 1980s: Dismantling the Process of Discrimination”
  • Chapter 14: “I Rise”: Black Feminism, Gender, and Sexuality
  • “Combahee River Collective Statement”
  • Audre Lorde: “Poetry Is Not a Luxury”
  • Melvin Boozer: Address to the Democratic National Convention
  • Cheryl Clarke: “The Failure to Transform: Homophobia in the Black Community”
  • Clarence M. Pendleton Jr.: “Comparable Worth Is Not Pay Equity: Looney Tunes and the Tooth Fairy”
  • Joseph Beam: “Brother to Brother: Words from the Heart”
  • June Jordan: “A New Politics of Sexuality”
  • Chapter 15: A Different World: African American Life and Politics at the End of the Millennium
  • Jesse Jackson: Democratic National Convention Keynote Address
  • Philadelphia Special Investigation Commission Report
  • Jesse Jackson: “The Struggle Continues”
  • John Conyers: H.R. 3745: Commission to Study Reparation Proposals for African Americans Act
  • Anita Hill: Opening Statement at the Senate Confirmation Hearing of Clarence Thomas
  • “African American Women in Defense of Ourselves”
  • A. Leon Higginbotham: “An Open Letter to Justice Clarence Thomas from a Federal Judicial Colleague”
  • Barbara Jordan: “Change: From What to What?”
  • The African American Clergy’s Declaration of War on HIV/AIDS
  • Colin Powell: Commencement Address at Howard University
  • Louis Farrakhan: Million Man March Pledge
  • Cornel West: “The Black Church Beyond Homophobia”
  • One America in the 21st Century
  • Clarence Thomas: Concurrence/Dissent in Grutter v. Bollinger
  • Jesse Jackson: “The Fight for Civil Rights Continues”
  • Chapter 16: From Katrina to Obama and Beyond
  • Congressional Report on the Response to Hurricane Katrina
  • Adolph L. Reed Jr.: “When Government Shrugs: Lessons of Katrina”
  • Barack Obama: “A More Perfect Union”
  • Barack Obama: First Inaugural Address
  • U.S. Senate Resolution Apologizing for the Enslavement and Racial Segregation of African Americans
  • Barack Obama: Address to the NAACP Centennial Convention
  • Tamara Winfrey Harris: “All Hail the Queen?”
  • Ruth Bader Ginsburg: Dissent in Shelby County v. Holder
  • Alicia Garza: “A Herstory of the #BlackLivesMatter Movement”
  • “Movement for Black Lives”: Vision for Black Lives Preamble
  • Barack Obama: Farewell Address
  • List of Documents by Category