Introduction

1. The Journey to Maturity and Self-Esteem: A Literary Analysis of Maya Angelou's I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

2. Violence and Intimidation as a Means of Social Control: A Historical Overview of Race Relations in the South FROM:

James P. Comer

"The Dynamics of Black and White Violence" (1969)

The Mob Still Rides: A Review of the Lynching Record, 1931-1935 (1936)

"Young Negro Lynched at Lepanto," (1936)

"Negro Lynched by Mob at Crossett," (1932)

"Tech 'Er Off, Charlie," in Tom E. Terrill and Jerrold Hirsch, eds., Such as Us: Southern Voices of the Thirties (1978)

3. Segregated Schools: An Institutional Method of Social Control FROM:

Ina Corinne Brown

National Survey of the Higher Education of Negroes (1942)

Charles S. Johnson

Growing Up in the Black Belt (1941)

U.S. Department of the Interior, Bureau of Education

"The Public School System of Arkansas" (1923)

Edward E. Redcay

County Training Schools and Public Secondary Education for Negroes in the South (1935)

Charles S. Johnson

Growing Up in the Black Belt (1941)

4. The African American Church FROM:

Harry V. Richardson

Foreword to Dark Glory (1947)

Charles S. Johnson

Growing Up in the Black Belt (1941)

Ralph A. Felton

These My Brethren: A Study of 570 Negro Churches and 1542 Negro Homes in the Rural South (1950)

James H. Cone

The Spirituals and the Blues: An Interpretation (1972)

U.S. Department of Commerce, Bureau of the Census

Religious Bodies: 1936 (1941)

5. The African American Family and Other Role Models FROM:

Abram Kardiner

Lionel Ovesey

The Mark of Oppression: Explorations in the Personality of the American Negro (1951)

"Thousands in Harlem Celebrate Louis Victory," New York Times (1935)

Eva Mueller

William Ladd

Negro-White Differences in Geographic Mobility (1964)

6. Child Sexual Abuse FROM:

U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Child Sexual Abuse: Incest, Assault and Sexual Exploitation (1981)

7. Censorship FROM:

Attacks on the Freedom to Learn: 1996 Report (1996)

Banned Books Week Resource Guide, 1997 (1997)

Attacks on the Freedom to Learn: 1996 Report (1996)

The Decatur [Alabama] Daily (1995-1996)

Bibliographic Essay

Chronology of Maya Angelou's Career

Index