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Tables of Contents for The African-American Odyssey Since 1863
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PART III THE CIVIL WAR, EMANCIPATION, AND BLACK RECONSTRUCTION: THE SECOND AMERICNA REVOLUTION
The Meaning of Freedom: The Promise of Reconstruction, 1865--1868
Life on the Sea Islands, 1864
1
1
Charlotte Forten
The Freedmen's Bureau Bill, 1865
2
1
Black Code of Mississippi, 1865
3
3
Speech to the American Anti-Slavery Society, 1865
6
1
Frederick Douglass
The Civil Rights Act of 1866
7
1
President Johnson's Veto of the Civil Rights Act 1866
8
3
The First Reconstruction Act, 1867
11
2
The Meaning of Freedom: The Failure of Reconstruction
Organization and Principles of the Ku Klux Klan, 1868
13
1
Speech in the Senate
14
2
Blanche K. Bruce
PART IV SEARCHING FOR SAFE SPACES
White Supremacy Triumphant: African Americans in the South in the Late Nineteenth Century
A Sharecrop Contract, 1882
16
1
Testimony on Southern Textile Industry, 1883
17
3
John Hill
A Red Record, 1895
20
2
Ida B. Wells
From A Voice from the South: By a Black Woman of the South, 1892
22
5
Anna Julia Cooper
Black Southerners Challenge White Supremacy
The Atlanta Exposition Address
27
2
Booker T. Washington
From Plessy v. Ferguson, 1896
29
1
Conciliation, Agitation, and Migration: African Americans in the Early Twentieth Century
The Niagara Movement, Declaration of Principles, 1905
30
2
War Message to Congress, 1917
32
1
Woodrow Wilson
Letters from the Great Migration, 1916--1917
33
2
from The Souls of Black Folks, 1903
35
1
W.E.B. Du Bois
Platform Adopted by the National Negro Committee, 1909
36
2
African Americans and the 1920s
The Klan's Fight for Americanism, 1926
38
1
Hiram Evans
The City Negro, 1925
39
2
Charles S. Johnson
``I Too,'' 1926
41
1
Langston Hughes
from The New Negro, 1925
42
2
Alain Locke
PART V THE GREAT DEPRESSION AND WORLD WAR II
The Great Depression and the New Deal
First Inaugural Address, 1933
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1
Franklin D. Roosevelt
National Labor Relations Act, 1935
45
3
The Victims of the Ku Klux Klan, 1935
48
2
Black Culture and Society in the 1930s and 1940s
``Welcome Home Rally,'' June 19, 1949
50
6
Paul Robeson
How the Blues Came to Be, 1941
56
4
W.C. Handy
``Easter Sunday''
60
Marian Anderson
On Black Movies
64
1
Ethel Waters
``Are We Solving America's Race Problem?'', 1945
65
2
Richard Wright
The World War II Era and Seeds of a Revolution
Executive Order 8802, 1941
67
1
Brown v. Board of Education, 1954
68
2
``The Legal Attack to Secure Civil Rights,'' 1942
70
4
Thurgood Marshall
Jim Crow In The Army Camps, 1940 and Jim-Crow Army, 1941
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2
Radio Address, 1948
76
2
Henry Wallace
McLaurin v. Oklahoma State Regents, 1950
78
3
PART VI THE BLACK REVOLUTION
Freedom Movement, 1954--1965
Jo Ann Gibson Robinson, Bus Boycott
81
3
Southern Manifesto, 1956
84
2
Sit-ins and the Origins of SNCC, 1960
86
6
Julian Bond
Letter from Birmingham City Jail, 1963
92
7
Martin Luther King Jr.
Voting Rights in Mississippi, 1962--1964
99
2
Fannie Lou Hamer
Letters from Mississippi
101
8
The Struggle Continues, 1965--1980
Lyndon B. Johnson and The Great Society, 1964
109
2
Stokely Carmichael and ``Black Power,'' 1966
111
5
``Conscience and the Vietnam War,'' 1967
116
4
Martin Luther King Jr.
Civil Disorders
120
9
Affirmative Action in Atlanta, ``Can Atlanta Succeed Where America has Failed?''
129
3
Modern Black America, 1980 to Present
The Urban Underclass
132
4
William Julius Wilson
Why the New Right is Winning, 1981
136
3
Richard Viguerie
Common Ground, 1988
139
2
Jessie Jackson
Remarks on the Bicentennial of the Constitution, 1987
141
2
Thurgood Marshall
``Talking to Teen Mothers''
143
Elaine Bell Kaplan