Freedom on my mind : the Columbia documentary history of the African American experience / Manning Marable, general editor ; Nishani Frazier and John McMillian, assistant editors.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Ch. 1. Women and Gender -- 1. Selected Speeches / Sojourner Truth -- 2. The Jealous Mistress / Harriet Ann Jacobs -- 3. Womanhood: A Vital Element in the Regeneration and Progress of a Race / Anna Julia Cooper -- 4. The Damnation of Women / W. E. B. Du Bois -- 5. Women's Most Serious Problem / Alice Moore Dunbar-Nelson -- 6. On Being Young - A Woman - and Colored / Marita Bonner -- 7. A Century of Progress of Negro Women / Mary McLeod Bethune -- 8. To All Black Women, from All Black Men / Eldridge Cleaver -- 9. Double Jeopardy: To Be Black and Female / Frances Beal -- 10. Feminism and Black Liberation / Audre Lorde -- 11. The Approaching Obsolescence of Housework / Angela Davis -- 12. Statement of Anita Hill to the Senate Judiciary Committee, October 11, 1991 / Anita Hill -- 13. Establishing Black Feminism / Barbara Smith -- 14. Toward a Black Feminist Liberation Agenda: Race Gender and Violence / Kristen Clarke -- Ch. 2. Kinship and Community -- 1. Kidnappers! / Lewis Williamson -- 2. To His Son, 2/2/1850 / William J. Walker -- 3. Childhood / Harriet Jacobs -- 4. For My People / Margaret Walker -- 5. Untitled Excerpt from Writings About her Childhood / Ella Baker -- 6. Notes of a Native Son / James Baldwin -- 7. Playing Hardball / Henry Louis Gates -- 8. From a Black Woman to a Black Man / Maya Angelou -- 9. In My Father's House / Manning Marable -- 10. Kwanzaa and the Ethics of Sharing: Forging Our Future in a New Era / Maulana Karenga -- Ch. 3. Imagining the Black World -- 1. Poems / Phillis Wheatley -- 2. Argument for Colonization / John Russwurm -- 3. Ethiopia / Frances Ellen Watkins Harper -- 4. West India Emancipation / Frederick Douglass -- 5. The American Negro and His Fatherland / Henry McNeal Turner -- 6. Declaration of the Rights of Negro Peoples of the World / Marcus Garvey -- 7. Heritage / Countee Cullen -- 8. Writings / Paul Robeson -- 9. Letters from Abroad / Malcolm X -- 10. Selected Essays / Audre Lorde -- 11. "The Continuity of Struggle" / Assata Shakur -- Ch. 4. Political Leadership and Social Protest -- 1. Petitions: Petition of the Africans, Living in Boston, Felix; Anonymous Appeal to William, Earl of Dartmouth; and The Earliest Extant Negro Petition to Congress / Jupiter Nicholson, Jacob Nicholson, Joe Albert and Thomas Pritchet -- 2. Letter to Thomas Jefferson / Benjamin Banneker -- 3. Oration on the Abolition of the Slave Trade / Peter Williams, Jr. -- 4. Editorial from the First Edition of Freedom's Journal / Samuel Cornish and John Russwurm -- 5. Men of Color, To Arms! / Frederick Douglass -- 6. Speech to the Georgia Legislature / Henry McNeal Turner -- 7. Letter of Nimrod Rowley to Abraham Lincoln, August 1864 -- 8. An Address Delivered at the Centennial Anniversary of the Pennsylvania Society for Promoting the Abolition of Slavery / Frances Ellen Watkins Harper -- 9. Letter to the Editor of the Birmingham Age-Herald / Booker T. Washington -- 10. Of Mr. Booker T. Washington and Others / W. E. B. Du Bois -- 11. Selected Poems / Claude McKay -- 12. Letter from a Birmingham Jail / Martin Luther King, Jr. -- 13. From Protest to Politics / Bayard Rustin -- 14. The Business of America is War, and It Is Time for a Change / Shirley Chisholm -- 15. The Struggle Continues / Jesse Jackson -- Ch. 5. In Pursuit of Justice -- 1. Speech on the Fugitive Slave Bill / Samuel Rinngold Ward -- 2. Hannah Johnson to Abraham Lincoln, July 31, 1863 -- 3. Sojourner Truth: Extracts from Her Lecture on Capital Punishment -- 4. Lynch Law in All Its Phases / Ida B. Wells-Barnett -- 5. Songs of the Prison Plantation -- 6. The Lynching / Claude McKay -- 7. Freedom Songs -- 8. To Praise Our Bridges / Fannie Lou Hamer -- 9. The Resistant Spirit / Robert Williams -- 10. Life In Prison / George Jackson -- 11. The Legacy of George Jackson / Angela Davis -- 12. B-Block Days and Nightmares / Mumia Abu-Jamal -- Ch. 6. Work, Labor, and Economic Development -- 1. Work Songs -- 2. Industrial Education for the Negro / Thomas McCants Stewart -- 3. Harvest Song / Jean Toomer -- 4. Song to a Negro Wash-woman / Langston Hughes -- 5. Why Should We March? / A. Philip Randolph -- 6. Black Boy: A Record of Childhood and Youth / Richard Wright -- 7. A Giant Step Toward Unity / William Simons -- 8. All God's Dangers / Ned Cobb -- Ch. 7. A Vision of Democracy -- 1. America / James Monroe Whitfield -- 2. On American "Democracy" and the Negro / Robert Purvis -- 3. Negro Patriotism and Devotion / Kelly Miller -- 4. Our Democracy and the Ballot / James Weldon Johnson -- 5. The Shame of America / Archibald Grimke -- 6. The Kind of Democracy the Negro Race Expects / William Pickens -- 7. Selected Poems / Lanston Hughes -- 8. I, Too, Am American / Paul Robeson -- 9. The American Dream and the American Negro / James Baldwin -- 10. Who Then Will Speak for the Common Good? / Barbara Jordan -- Ch. 8. Popular Culture -- 1. Folk Tales -- 2. The Prize Fighter, editorial in Crisis -- 3. The Negro Spirituals / Alain Locke -- 4. The Dilemma of the Negro Author / James Weldon Johnson -- 5. It Don't Mean a Thing (If It Ain't Got That Swing) / Duke Ellington -- 6. High Tide in Harlem / Richard Wright -- 7. The Revolution Will Not Be Televised / Gil Scott-Heron -- 8. Where Are the Films About Real Black Men and Women? / Ellen Holly -- 9. The Signifying Monkey / Henry Louis Gates, Jr. -- 10. What America Would Be Like Without Blacks / Ralph Ellison -- 11. O. J. Simpson and Our Trial by Fire / Michael Eric Dyson -- Ch. 9. Faith and Spirituality -- 1. Spirituals -- 2. Spiritual Song / Richard Allen -- 3. A Thanksgiving Sermon / Absalom Jones -- 4. Excerpt from Clotel / William Wells Brown -- 5. Excerpt from A Brand Plucked from the Fire / Julia A. Foote -- 6. An Antebellum Sermon / Paul Laurence Dunbar -- 7. Writings / Fenton Johnson -- 8. Go Down Death / James Weldon Johnson -- 9. Faith Hasn't Got No Eyes / Zora Neale Hurston -- 10. Salvation / Langston Hughes -- 11. The Most Durable Power / Martin Luther King, Jr. -- 12. Black Theology and Black Power / James H. Cone -- 13. The Black Church and Socialist Politics / Cornel West -- 14. A Torchlight for America / Louis Farrakhan.

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