*Indicates documents that are new to or significantly expanded in the Second Edition.
List of Illustrations.
List of Maps.
Acknowledgements.
“Bones of the Past”: Using Primary Sources in African-American History.
About the Editor.
Editorial Statement.
1. Africans in the Atlantic Slave Trade.
Venture Smith, Capture and Sale in West Africa.
Olaudah Equiano, The Middle Passage.
2. Becoming African American: The Colonial Experience.
Olaudah Equiano, Culture Shock..
Charles Ball, African Culture in the Lowcountry.
John Marrant, The Impact of the Great Awakening.
3. Black Declarations of Independence: The American Revolution.
Phillis Wheatley, “Our Modern Egyptians.”
A Petition for Freedom in Massachusetts.
*Jehu Grant, Fighting for the Revolutionary Cause.
*Boston King, A Black Loyalist.
Benjamin Banneker, Challenging the Racist Views of a Founding Father.
4. Free Black Communities in the New Nation.
Maria W. Stewart, A Little Better Than Slavery.
Richard Allen, The Rise of African-American Churches.
Samuel Cornish, Jr. An Independent Press.
John B. Russwurm, Colonization Endorsed.
Peter Williams, Colonization Rejected.
5. Antebellum Slavery: Testimony from the Quarters.
Solomon Northup, Life and Labor on a Cotton Plantation.
*Frederick Douglass, Whipping Slaves (expanded from First Edition).
Louisa Picquet, The Experience of a Female Slave.
Peter Randolph, Culture and Religion in the Quarters.
Spirituals.
The Tar Baby Tale.
David Holmes, Escaping from Slavery.
The Confessions of Nat Turner.
6. Black Abolitionists.
David Walker, An Antislavery Appeal.
Lewis G. Clarke, The Testimony of a Former Slave.
Henry Highland Garnet, Let Your Motto Be Resistance.
Sojourner Truth, Women's Rights.
Martin R. Delany, A Call for Emigration.
7. Days of Jubilee: The Civil War and the End of Slavery.
William Summerson, Fleeing to Union Lines.
Frederick Douglass, “Men of Color, to Arms.”
Meunomennie L. Maimi, The Meaning of the War.
Susie King Taylor, Life in Camp.
Charlotte Forten, Teaching the Contrabands on the Sea Islands.
Felix Haywood, The Death of Slavery.
8. Dreams Deferred: The Promise and the Failure of Reconstruction.
The Freedmen's Agenda for Reconstruction.
Richard Harvey Cain, A Black Congressman Demands Equal Rights.
Harriet Hernandez, Political Terrorism by the Ku Klux Klan.
Bayley Wyatt, A Right to the Land.
Henry Blake, Working on Shares.
The Changing Plantation Landscape.
Henry Adams, Leaving the South.
9. The Color Line in the Era of Segregation.
*Mamie Garvin Fields, The Effects of the Jim Crow Laws.
*Pauli Murray, Jim Crow Signs.
Richard Wright, Learning Racial Etiquette.
A Lynching in Mississippi.
Mary Church Terrell, The Causes of Lynching.
*Counting Lynchings in the Negro Year Book.
10. Racial Alternatives in the Progressive Era.
Ida B. Wells-Barnett, Self Help.
Booker T. Washington, The “Atlanta Compromise.”
Henry McNeal Turner, Back to Africa.
John Hope, “Rise, Brothers!”
W. E. B. Du Bois, Organizing for Protest.
11. The Great War and the Great Migration.
Causes of the Migration.
W. E. B. Du Bois, Returning Soldiers.
Alain Locke, The New Negro.
Harlem Renaissance Poetry.
*Zora Neale Hurston, In Praise of Black Folk Culture.
Marcus Garvey, “African Fundamentalism.”
12. A New Deal for African Americans?
Joseph D. Bibb, Flirting with Radicalism.
Virgil Johnson, Switching Party Allegiance.
Mary McLeod Bethune, A Black Adviser to FDR.
Roy Wilkins, A Black Assessment of the New Deal.
13. Fighting on Two Fronts: World War II.
A. Philip Randolph, The March-on-Washington Movement.
Walter White, Race Relations in Wartime Detroit.
*Sybil Lewis, A Black Rosie the Riveter.
A Black Soldier in a Jim Crow Army.
14. The School Segregation Cases.
Charles Hamilton Houston, Launching the Campaign.
Septima Clark, Black Schools in the Jim Crow South.
The Argument in Brown v. Board of Education.
Elizabeth Eckford, The First Day of School in Little Rock.
15. The Civil Rights Movement.
Rosa Parks, The Montgomery Bus Boycott.
*Martin Luther King, “The Strategy of Nonviolent Direct Action.”
*Franklin McCain, The First Sit-Ins.
*Hank Thomas, The Freedom Rides.
*Songs of the Civil Rights Movement.
*Martin Luther King, “I Have a Dream.”
Fannie Lou Hamer, Fighting for the Vote in Mississippi.
Alice Walker, Changed by the Movement.
16. Black Power, Black Nationalism.
Malcolm X, Black Nationalism and Black Revolution.
Julius Lester, The Attractions of Black Power.
Stokely Carmichael, Black Power Defined.
The Black Panther Party Platform.
Amira Baraka, The Role of the Black Artist.
Nikki Giovanni, Black Nationalist Poetry.
17. Half Empty, Half Full: African Americans since 1968.
Benjamin L. Hooks, Continuing the Struggle.
*The Black Middle Class and the Black Poor: Growing Divergence.
Michele Wallace, Becoming a Black Feminist.
Molefi Kete Asante, Afrocentricity.
Rap Lyrics.
Maxine Waters, Causes of the L.A. Riots.
*Randall Robinson, A Call for Reparations.
*Manning Marable and Shelby Steele, The Debate over Reparation.
Credits.