From Timbuktu to Katrina: Sources in African-American History Volume 2

Front Cover......Page 1
Title Page......Page 2
Copyright......Page 3
Contents......Page 5
Preface......Page 10
About the Author......Page 13
CHAPTER 1: Race in a New Century......Page 16
George H. White's Farewell Address to Congress......Page 18
Black Soldiers on the Filipino Insurrection, 1901......Page 20
W. E. B. DuBois and the Talented Tenth......Page 21
The Niagara Movement......Page 23
W. E. B. DuBois Writes a Schoolgirl......Page 24
Brownsville, 1906......Page 25
The Crisis: The First Editorial, 1910......Page 26
Early Housing Discrimination: A 1911 St. Louis Restrictive Covenant......Page 27
The National Urban League......Page 28
CHAPTER 2: The Great Migration: Blacks in the Urban North......Page 32
Why They Leave the South......Page 34
Black Southerners Explain the Exodus......Page 35
East St. Louis, 1917: An American Pogrom......Page 37
“Close Ranks”......Page 40
“We Return Fighting”......Page 41
“Negroes Elect ‘Big Bill’ ” Mayor is Winner in Hard Fight......Page 42
Stores and Offices Shut......Page 43
Kill Scores Coming from Yards......Page 44
Stores Looted; Homes Burned......Page 45
Sweet Home, Chicago......Page 46
Mary McLeod Bethune on the Problems of the City Dweller......Page 48
CHAPTER 3: Prosperity and Depression......Page 52
Betterment Organizations Among Harlem Women......Page 54
Alain Locke Describes the “New Negro” in 1925......Page 58
Harlem Renaissance Poetry: “If We Must Die”......Page 60
Harlem Renaissance Poetry: “I Want to Die While You Love Me”......Page 61
To THE EDITOR OF THE NATION......Page 62
Marcus Garvey: A Seattle Woman Remembers......Page 67
A Lunatic or a Traitor......Page 68
The Messenger: A Black Socialist Newspaper......Page 69
Segregated Baseball, 1939......Page 75
A $200,000 Catcher......Page 76
CHAPTER 4: World War II......Page 78
A. Philip Randolph Calls for a March on Washington, 1941......Page 80
“Can Negroes Really Fly Airplanes”......Page 84
Lyn Childs Confronts a Racist Act......Page 85
African America and International Affairs: A Rising Wind......Page 87
Civil Rights and Organized Labor in the South: Moranda Smith Speaks......Page 92
Paul Robeson Sings on the Border......Page 98
CHAPTER 5: We Shall Overcome: 1950–1965......Page 102
Elizabeth Eckford at Little Rock's Central High School......Page 104
With All Deliberate Speed: Integration in Southern Schools, 1960......Page 107
The First Sit-In: Wichita, Kansas, 1958......Page 108
James Meredith at “Ole Miss”......Page 110
Martin Luther King, Jr., and the FBI......Page 113
Fannie Lou Hamer Testifies at the Democratic National Convention, 1964......Page 116
Murder in Mississippi......Page 118
President Johnson Proposes the Voting Rights Act......Page 120
CHAPTER 6: Black Power, 1965–1975......Page 122
Malcolm X “On White Oppression”......Page 123
The Assassination of Malcolm X......Page 125
The Kerner Commission on Race in America, 1967......Page 129
Black Power Comes to Cleveland: The Election of Carl Stokes......Page 132
“Death was a Distinct Possibility Last Night”......Page 133
The University of Washington Black Student Union......Page 135
CHAPTER 7: African America in a Conservative Era......Page 142
The Reginald Lewis Story......Page 150
Jesse Jackson and the Rainbow Coalition, 1984......Page 151
The Governor of Virginia......Page 152
South Africa and African Americans......Page 153
Blacks and Jews: The Politics of Resentment......Page 156
The New Black Conservatives......Page 161
The Language of Segregation......Page 163
Crippin’: The Rise of Black Gangs in Post-Watts Los Angeles......Page 165
CHAPTER 8: Into the Twenty-First Century, Complicating Identities......Page 172
Black Migration: The Return to the South......Page 174
Anita Hill Testifies Before Congress......Page 175
The Gender Gap in the Twenty-First Century......Page 178
The 2000 Census: Two or More Races Population......Page 183
Which Side Are You On?......Page 186
Huey P. Newton on the Gay and Women’s Liberation Movements......Page 189
Out of Africa: African Immigration to the United States......Page 192
Godwin Ajala at the World Trade Center......Page 195
Barack Obama’s Keynote Address at the Democratic National Convention, 2004......Page 197
African Americans and Environmental History: A Manifesto......Page 200