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The Schlager Anthology of Black America  
A Student’s Guide to Essential Primary Sources
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The Schlager Anthology of Black America offers a modern, original sourcebook covering Black history from the 1500s to the present. From the creators and publishers of Milestone Documents in American History, this new three-volume set is built on the principles of inclusivity and accessibility. While presenting the essential primary sources from Black history, from iconic figures such as Frederick Douglass, W.E.B. Du Bois, and Martin Luther King Jr., this anthology also emphasizes often-marginalized voices, from women to those in the LGBTQ community. In addition, document texts are abridged to remain brief and accessible, even to struggling readers (including ESL students), while activity questions range in difficulty from basic to more advanced. Edited by Dan Royles (To Make the Wounded Whole) and featuring the contributions of numerous scholars, The Schlager Anthology of Black America covers more than 250 milestone sources from African American history.
Chapter 1: Many Thousands Gone: Black Experiences in Colonial America
5 pages
Narratives of Estevanico el Negro in the Southwest
3 pages
Virginia’s Act XII: Negro Women’s Children to Serve according to the Condition of the Mother
3 pages
Virginia’s Act III: Baptism Does Not Exempt Slaves from Bondage
2 pages
“A Minute against Slavery, Addressed to Germantown Monthly Meeting”
Francis Daniel Pastorius
3 pages
Maryland: An Act Concerning Negro Slaves
3 pages
Virginia: An Act Concerning Servants and Slaves
3 pages
Louisiana’s Code Noir
De la Chaise Bienville
3 pages
James Oglethorpe: “An Account of the Negroe Insurrection in South Carolina”
James Oglethorpe
3 pages
John Woolman: Some Considerations on Keeping Negroes
John Woolman
4 pages
Antoine Simone Le Page du Pratz: The History of Louisiana
Antoine Simone Le Page du Pratz
4 pages
Alexander Falconbridge: An Account of the Slave Trade on the Coast of Africa
Alexander Falconbridge
3 pages
The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, or Gustavus Vassa, the African
Olaudah Equiano
4 pages
Venture Smith: A Narrative of the Life and Adventures of Venture, a Native of Africa
Venture Smith
3 pages
Chapter 2:: In Hope of Liberty: African American Life in the Age of Revolution
4 pages
Lord Dunmore’s Proclamation
John Murray,
3 pages
Phillis Wheatley: “His Excellency General Washington”
Phillis Wheatley
3 pages
Petition of Prince Hall and Other African Americans to the Massachusetts General Court
Prince Hall
3 pages
Pennsylvania: An Act for the Gradual Abolition of Slavery
3 pages
“An Account of the Life of Mr. David George”
David George
4 pages
Chapter 3:: Now Comes the Test: Race, Nation, and the Limits of Freedom in the Early Republic
5 pages
Benjamin Banneker: Letter to Thomas Jefferson
Benjamin Banneker
4 pages
Fugitive Slave Act of 1793
3 pages
Richard Allen: “An Address to Those Who Keep Slaves, and Approve the Practice”
Richard Allen
3 pages
Prince Hall: “A Charge Delivered to the African Lodge”
Prince Hall
3 pages
Ohio Black Code
3 pages
Letter of William C.C. Claiborne to James Madison
William C.C. Claiborne
3 pages
Peter Williams Jr.: “Oration on the Abolition of the Slave Trade”
Peter Williams
3 pages
Laws of the Creek Nation
2 pages
Benjamin Latrobe: “New Orleans and Its People”
Benjamin Latrobe
3 pages
Missouri Compromise
3 pages
Laws of the Cherokee Nation
3 pages
Zephaniah Kingsley: “A Treatise on the Patriarchal System of Society”
Zephaniah Kingsley
4 pages
“Jim Crow”
Thomas Dartmouth Rice
4 pages
James Creecy: “Language, Dances, Etc. in New Orleans”
James Creecy
2 pages
John C. Calhoun: “Slavery a Positive Good”
John C. Calhoun
3 pages
Victor Séjour: “The Mulatto”
Victor Séjour
4 pages
United States v. Amistad
3 pages
Salmon P. Chase: Reclamation of Fugitives from Service
Salmon P. Chase
3 pages
Oregon Exclusion Law
3 pages
Charles K. Whipple: “Slavery among the Cherokees and the Choctaws”
Charles K. Whipple
4 pages
Chapter 4:: There Is a River: Abolitionism and Black Protest in Antebellum America
3 pages
Samuel Cornish and John Russwurm: First Freedom’s Journal Editorial
Samuel Cornish, John Russwurm
3 pages
David Walker: Appeal to the Coloured Citizens of the World
David Walker
3 pages
William Lloyd Garrison: First Liberator Editorial
William Lloyd Garrison
4 pages
The Confessions of Nat Turner
Nat Turner
3 pages
Lydia Maria Child: An Appeal in Favor of That Class of Americans Called Africans
Lydia Maria Child
3 pages
Henry Highland Garnet: “An Address to the Slaves of the United States of America”
Henry Highland Garnet
3 pages
William Lloyd Garrison: “Address to the Friends of Freedom and Emancipation in the United States”
William Lloyd Garrison
3 pages
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
Frederick Douglass
3 pages
William Wells Brown: “Slavery As It Is”
William Wells Brown
3 pages
Frederick Douglass: First Editorial of the North Star
Frederick Douglass
3 pages
Frederick Douglass: “Letter To My Old Master”
Frederick Douglass
3 pages
Bureel W. Mann: Letter to the American Colonization Society
Bureell W. Mann
3 pages
Sojourner Truth: “Ain’t I a Woman?”
Sojourner Truth
3 pages
Narrative of the Life of Henry Box Brown, Written by Himself
Henry Brown
4 pages
Frederick Douglass: “Fourth of July” Speech
Frederick Douglass
3 pages
Martin Delany: The Condition, Elevation, Emigration, and Destiny of the Colored People of the United States
Martin Delany
3 pages
American Colonization Society: “Things Which Every Emigrant to Liberia Ought to Know”
3 pages
Solomon Northup: Twelve Years a Slave
Solomon Northup
3 pages
Elizabeth Cady Stanton: Speech for the Anniversary of the American Anti-Slavery Society
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
3 pages
H. Ford Douglas: “Independence Day”
H. Ford Douglas
3 pages
Harriet Jacobs: Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl
Harriet Jacobs
3 pages
Chapter 5:: A Divided Nation: The Turbulent Fifties
4 pages
Compromise of 1850
4 pages
Fugitive Slave Act of 1850
4 pages
Dred Scott v. Sandford
Chief Justice Roger B. Taney
3 pages
John S. Rock: “Whenever the Colored Man Is Elevated, It Will Be by His Own Exertions”
John S. Rock
3 pages
William Lloyd Garrison: Speech Relating to the Execution of John Brown
William Lloyd Garrison
3 pages
Wendell Phillips: “The Puritan Principle and John Brown”
Wendell Phillips
3 pages
Virginia Slave Code
4 pages
Osborne P. Anderson: A Voice from Harper’s Ferry
Osborne P. Anderson
4 pages
Chapter 6:: The Dawn of Freedom: The Civil War and the Reconstruction of a Nation
4 pages
W. L. Harris: Address to the Georgia General Assembly
W. L. Harris
3 pages
Emancipation Proclamation
Abraham Lincoln
3 pages
Frederick Douglass: “Men of Color, To Arms!”
Frederick Douglass
4 pages
U.S. War Department General Order 143
Edward Davis Townsend,
3 pages
“An Ordinance to Organize and Establish Patrols for the Police of Slaves in the Parish of St. Landry”
Elbert Gantt
4 pages
Arnold Bertonneau: “Every Man Should Stand Equal before the Law”
Arnold Bertonneau
3 pages
James H. Payne: Letter about “Sister Penny”
James H. Payne
3 pages
Thomas Morris Chester: Civil War Dispatches
Thomas Morris Chester
4 pages
John Jones: “The Black Laws of Illinois: And a Few Reasons Why They Should Be Repealed”
John Jones
3 pages
William T. Sherman: Special Field Order No. 15
William Tecumseh Sherman
3 pages
Thirteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution
James M. Ashley, James F. Wilson, Lyman Trumbull, Charles Sumner
3 pages
Convention of Colored Men: Address to the Loyal Citizens of the United States and to Congress
3 pages
Black Code of Mississippi
4 pages
Testimony before the Joint Committee on Reconstruction on Atrocities in the South against Blacks
3 pages
Wesley Norris: “Testimony of Wesley Norris”
Wesley Norris
3 pages
Fourteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution
3 pages
Henry McNeal Turner: Speech on His Expulsion from the Georgia Legislature
Henry McNeal Turner
3 pages
Initiation Charge of the Ku Klux Klan
4 pages
Fifteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution
3 pages
Richard Harvey Cain: “All That We Ask Is Equal Laws, Equal Legislation, and Equal Rights”
Richard Harvey Cain
3 pages
Chapter 7: The Betrayal of the Negro: Black Accommodation and Black Protest in the Era of Jim Crow
4 pages
“The Largest Colored Colony in America”
3 pages
Frederick Douglass: “Our National Capital” Lecture
Frederick Douglass
3 pages
Report of the Minority, in Report and Testimony of the Select Committee to Investigate the Causes of the Removal of the Negroes from the Southern States to the Northern States
William Windom, Henry W. Blair
3 pages
Pace v. Alabama
Stephen J. Field
3 pages
Report of the Select Committee to Inquire into the Mississippi Election of 1883
3 pages
Lucy Parsons: “The Negro: Let Him Leave Politics to the Politician and Prayers to the Preacher”
Lucy Parsons
3 pages
Anna Julia Cooper: “Womanhood: A Vital Element in the Regeneration and Progress of a Race”
Anna Julia Cooper
4 pages
George Washington Williams: Open Letter to King Leopold on the Congo
George Washington Williams
4 pages
John L. Moore: “In the Lion’s Mouth”
John L. Moore
3 pages
Josephine St. Pierre Ruffin: “Address to the First National Conference of Colored Women”
Josephine St. Pierre Ruffin
103 pages
Booker T. Washington: Atlanta Exposition Address
Booker T. Washington
4 pages
Plessy v. Ferguson
Henry Billings Brown
3 pages
W. E. B. Du Bois: “Strivings of the Negro People”
W. E. B. Du Bois
3 pages
Mary Church Terrell: “The Progress of Colored Women”
Mary Church Terrell
3 pages
H. T. Johnson: “The Black Man’s Burden”
H. T. Johnson
2 pages
James W. Poe: “The Slaughter in the Philippines and Its Relation to Massacres of Our People in the South”
James W. Poe
3 pages
John W. Galloway: Black Soldier’s Letter from the Philippines
John W. Galloway
4 pages
James Weldon Johnson: “Lift Every Voice and Sing”
James Weldon Johnson
3 pages
George H. White: Farewell Address to Congress
George H. White
3 pages
W. E. B. Du Bois: The Souls of Black Folk
W. E. B. Du Bois
4 pages
W. E. B. Du Bois: “The Parting of the Ways”
W. E. B. Du Bois
3 pages
Ida B. Wells: “Booker T. Washington and His Critics”
Ida B. Wells
3 pages
Niagara Movement Declaration of Principles
3 pages
Kelly Miller: “The Economic Handicap of the Negro in the North”
Kelly Miller
3 pages
Booker T. Washington: Letter to William Howard Taft
Booker T. Washington
4 pages
Ida B. Wells: “Lynching: Our National Crime”
Ida B. Wells
3 pages
Arthur A. Schomburg: “Racial Integrity: A Plea for the Establishment of a Chair of Negro History in Our Schools and Colleges, etc.”
Arthur A. Schomburg
4 pages
Monroe Trotter: Protest to Woodrow Wilson
Monroe Trotter
3 pages
W. E. B. Du Bois: The Star of Ethiopia: A Pageant
W. E. B. Du Bois
4 pages
“A Memorial to the Atlanta, Georgia, Board of Education”
4 pages
Chapter 8: If We Must Die: World War I and the New Negro Renaissance
3 pages
W. E. B. Du Bois: “The Migration of Negroes”
W. E. B. Du Bois
3 pages
Robert Russa Moton: “The American Negro and the World War”
Robert Russa Moton
3 pages
“The Colored Americans in France”
Lieutenant Charles A. Shaw
2 pages
“Africa and the World Democracy”
John R. Shillady
3 pages
W. E. B. Du Bois: “Returning Soldiers”
W. E. B. Du Bois
3 pages
Claude McKay: “If We Must Die”
Claude McKay
3 pages
“How to Stop Lynching”
4 pages
“The Negro and the Labor Union: An NAACP Report”
3 pages
“The Riot at Longview, Texas”
3 pages
William Pickens: “The Woman Voter Hits the Color Line”
William Pickens
3 pages
Cyril Briggs: Summary of the Program and Aims of the African Blood Brotherhood
Cyril Briggs
3 pages
Walter F. White: “Election Day in Florida”
Walter F. White
3 pages
William Pickens: “Lynching and Debt Slavery”
William Pickens
3 pages
Walter F. White: “The Eruption of Tulsa”
Walter F. White
4 pages
“To the World” (Manifesto of the Second Pan-African Congress)
W. E. B. Du Bois
3 pages
Jessie Redmon Fauset: “Some Notes on Color”
Jessie Redmon Fauset
4 pages
Marcus Garvey: “The Principles of the Universal Negro Improvement Association”
Marcus Garvey
3 pages
Claude McKay: “Soviet Russia and the Negro”
Claude McKay
3 pages
Horace Mann Bond: “Intelligence Tests and Propaganda”
Horace Mann Bond
3 pages
Eric D. Walrond: “Imperator Africanus—Marcus Garvey: Menace or Promise?”
Eric D. Walrond
3 pages
Alain Locke: “Enter the New Negro”
Alain Locke
4 pages
James Weldon Johnson: “Harlem: The Culture Capital”
James Weldon Johnson
3 pages
Marita O. Bonner: “On Being Young—A Woman—And Colored”
Marita O. Bonner
3 pages
Helene Johnson: “Sonnet to a Negro in Harlem”
Helene Johnson
2 pages
Alice Moore Dunbar-Nelson: “The Negro Woman and the Ballot”
Alice Moore Dunbar-Nelson
3 pages
Zora Neale Hurston: “How It Feels to Be Colored Me”
Zora Neale Hurston
3 pages
James Weldon Johnson: “Race Prejudice and the Negro Artist”
James Weldon Johnson
3 pages
Manhattan Medical Society: “Equal Opportunity: No More, No Less!”
3 pages
Carter G. Woodson: “The Miseducation of the Negro”
Carter G. Woodson
3 pages
Buck Colbert Franklin: “The Tulsa Race Riot and Three of Its Victims”
Buck Colbert Franklin
4 pages
Sterling Brown: “Ma Rainey”
Sterling Brown
3 pages
Chapter 9: Making a New Deal: African Americans, Organized Labor, and Shifting Political Alliances
3 pages
Elmer A. Carter: “Communism and the Negro Tenant Farmer”
Elmer A. Carter
3 pages
“Appeal of the Scottsboro Mothers”
Bernice Morris, Viola Montgomery
4 pages
Cyril Briggs: “War in the East”
Cyril Briggs
4 pages
William Patterson: “Manifesto to the Negro People”
William Patterson
3 pages
W. E. B. Du Bois: “Marxism and the Negro Problem”
W. E. B. Du Bois
4 pages
Letter from Benjamin J. Davis to Samuel Leibowitz
Benjamin Davis
4 pages
Robert Clifton Weaver: “The New Deal and the Negro: A Look at the Facts”
Robert Clifton Weaver
3 pages
Walter F. White: “U.S. Department of (White) Justice”
Walter F. White
3 pages
African Americans’ New Deal Letters to Franklin D. Roosevelt
4 pages
John Henry: “Landlord, What in the Heaven Is the Matter with You?”
John Henry
4 pages
Richard Wright: “Blueprint for Negro Writing”
Richard Wright
4 pages
Mary McLeod Bethune: “What Does American Democracy Mean to Me?”
Mary McLeod Bethune
3 pages
Folk Music of the United States, Album III: Afro-American Spirituals, Work Songs, and Ballads
4 pages
Chapter 10: Double V: African Americans, World War II, and the Cold War
6 pages
A. Philip Randolph: “Call to Negro America to March on Washington”
A. Philip Randolph
4 pages
Bayard Rustin: “The Negro and Nonviolence”
Bayard Rustin
4 pages
National War Labor Board: Case No. 771 in the Matter of Southport Petroleum Company (Texas City, Texas) and Oil Workers’ International Union
Dr. Frank P. Graham
4 pages
Richard Wright: “The White Problem in the United States”
Richard Wright
4 pages
W. E. B. Du Bois: “An Appeal to the World”
W. E. B. Du Bois
4 pages
To Secure These Rights
4 pages
Charles Hamilton Houston: Petition in Hurd v. Hodge
Charles Hamilton Houston
4 pages
Ralph J. Bunche: “The Barriers of Race Can Be Surmounted”
Ralph J. Bunche
3 pages
Civil Rights Congress: “We Charge Genocide”
4 pages
Paul Robeson: “Ho Chi Minh Is the Toussaint L’Ouverture of Indo-China”
Paul Robeson
3 pages
Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka
Earl Warren
4 pages
Adam Clayton Powell Jr.: Speech on Civil Rights
Adam Clayton Powell
4 pages
James W. May and William Gordon: “What I Tell My Child about Color”
James W. May, William Gordon
3 pages
Bayard Rustin: Montgomery Diary
Bayard Rustin
3 pages
The Southern Manifesto (Declaration of Constitutional Principles)
Strom Thurmond (D-SC), Richard Russell (D-GA), J. William Fulbright (D-AR)
4 pages
Paul Robeson: Testimony before HUAC
Paul Robeson
3 pages
George McMillan: “The Ordeal of Bobby Cain”
George McMillan
3 pages
Roy Wilkins: “The Clock Will Not Be Turned Back”
Roy Wilkins
3 pages
Charles C. Diggs Jr.: “Indifferent—or Irresponsible? U.S. Policy on Africa”
Charles C. Diggs
7 pages
Chapter 11: From Montgomery to Selma: The Modern Civil Rights Movement
5 pages
“Negroes’ Most Urgent Needs”
2 pages
Ella Baker: “Bigger than a Hamburger”
Ella Baker
4 pages
George McMillan: “Mr. Local Custom Must Die”
George McMillan
4 pages
Jesús Colón: “Greetings from Washington” (from A Puerto Rican in New York)
Jesús Colón
3 pages
Martin Luther King Jr.: “Letter from Birmingham Jail”
Martin Luther King
4 pages
March on Washington Organizing Manual No. 2
Bayard Rustin, Cleveland Robinson
4 pages
Martin Luther King Jr.: “I Have a Dream”
Martin Luther King
4 pages
Malcolm X: “Message to the Grass Roots”
4 pages
Malcolm X: “The Ballot or the Bullet”
4 pages
Fannie Lou Hamer: Testimony at the Democratic National Convention
Fannie Lou Hamer
3 pages
Moynihan Report
Daniel Patrick Moynihan
4 pages
Martin Luther King Jr.: “Beyond Vietnam: A Time to Break Silence”
Martin Luther King
4 pages
Loving v. Virginia
Chief Justice Earl Warren
4 pages
Adam Clayton Powell Jr.: “Black Power: A Form of Godly Power”
Adam Clayton Powell
4 pages
Kerner Commission Report
, Otto Kerner
4 pages
Ella Baker: “The Black Woman in the Civil Rights Struggle”
Ella Baker
3 pages
Ella Baker: “Developing Community Leadership”
Ella Baker
4 pages
Interview with Gussie Nesbitt
Gussie Nesbitt
4 pages
Jo Ann Gibson Robinson: The Montgomery Bus Boycott and the Women Who Started It
Jo Ann Gibson Robinson
4 pages
Chapter 12: Say It Loud: Black Power and the Search for a New Radical Paradigm
3 pages
Carlos Cooks: “Hair Conking; Buy Black”
Carlos Cooks
3 pages
Black Panther Party: “What We Want, What We Believe”
Huey P. Newton, Bobby Seale
4 pages
Stokely Carmichael: “Black Power”
Stokely Carmichael
4 pages
Nguzo Saba (The Seven Principles)
Maulana Karenga
3 pages
Piri Thomas: “Brothers Under the Skin” (from Down These Mean Streets)
Piri Thomas
3 pages
Hoyt Fuller: “Towards a Black Aesthetic”
Hoyt Fuller
3 pages
“Ron Karenga and Black Cultural Nationalism”
Ron Karenga
3 pages
“Mboya’s Rebuttal”
Tom Mboya
4 pages
Eldridge Cleaver: “Education and Revolution”
Eldridge Cleaver
3 pages
Jesse Owens: Blackthink: My Life as Black Man and White Man
Jesse Owens
4 pages
Statement by the Polaroid Revolutionary Workers Movement
3 pages
Angela Davis: “Political Prisoners, Prisons, and Black Liberation”
Angela Davis
4 pages
Adam Clayton Powell Jr.: “Black Power and the Future of Black America”
Adam Clayton Powell
4 pages
Ishmael Reed: “Neo-HooDoo Manifesto”
Ishmael Reed
3 pages
FBI Report on Elijah Muhammad
4 pages
Chapter 13: From the Bullet to the Ballot: Black Politics in the Post–Civil Rights Decade
3 pages
National Black Political Convention: Gary Declaration
4 pages
Final Report of the Tuskegee Syphilis Study Ad Hoc Advisory Panel
4 pages
Time: “Cities: New Men for Detroit and Atlanta”
3 pages
Shirley Chisholm: “The Black Woman in Contemporary America”
Shirley Chisholm
4 pages
Regents of the University of California v. Bakke
3 pages
Thurgood Marshall: Equality Speech
Thurgood Marshall
3 pages
U.S. Commission on Civil Rights: “Affirmative Action in the 1980s: Dismantling the Process of Discrimination”
3 pages
Chapter 14: “I Rise”: Black Feminism, Gender, and Sexuality
3 pages
“Combahee River Collective Statement”
4 pages
Audre Lorde: “Poetry Is Not a Luxury”
Audre Lorde
4 pages
Melvin Boozer: Address to the Democratic National Convention
Melvin Boozer
3 pages
Cheryl Clarke: “The Failure to Transform: Homophobia in the Black Community”
Cheryl Clarke
3 pages
Clarence M. Pendleton Jr.: “Comparable Worth Is Not Pay Equity: Looney Tunes and the Tooth Fairy”
Clarence M. Pendleton
4 pages
Joseph Beam: “Brother to Brother: Words from the Heart”
Joseph Beam
3 pages
June Jordan: “A New Politics of Sexuality”
June Jordan
3 pages
Chapter 15: A Different World: African American Life and Politics at the End of the Millennium
3 pages
Jesse Jackson: Democratic National Convention Keynote Address
Jesse Jackson
4 pages
Philadelphia Special Investigation Commission Report
4 pages
Jesse Jackson: “The Struggle Continues”
Jesse Jackson
3 pages
John Conyers: H.R.3745: Commission to Study Reparation Proposals for African Americans Act
John Conyers
4 pages
Anita Hill: Opening Statement at the Senate Confirmation Hearing of Clarence Thomas
Anita Hill
4 pages
“African American Women in Defense of Ourselves”
Elsa Barkley Brown, Deborah King, Barbara Ransby
3 pages
A. Leon Higginbotham: “An Open Letter to Justice Clarence Thomas from a Federal Judicial Colleague”
A. Leon Higginbotham
3 pages
Barbara Jordan: “Change: From What to What?”
Barbara Jordan
4 pages
The African American Clergy’s Declaration of War on HIV/AIDS
4 pages
Colin Powell: Commencement Address at Howard University
Colin Powell
3 pages
Louis Farrakhan: Million Man March Pledge
Louis Farrakhan
3 pages
Cornel West: “The Black Church Beyond Homophobia”
Cornel West
3 pages
One America in the 21st Century
3 pages
Clarence Thomas: Concurrence/Dissent in Grutter v. Bollinger
Clarence Thomas
3 pages
Jesse Jackson: “The Fight for Civil Rights Continues”
Jesse Jackson
4 pages
Chapter 16: From Katrina to Obama and Beyond
5 pages
Congressional Report on the Response to Hurricane Katrina
4 pages
Adolph L. Reed Jr.: “When Government Shrugs: Lessons of Katrina”
Adolph L. Reed
3 pages
Barack Obama: “A More Perfect Union”
Barack Obama
4 pages
Barack Obama: First Inaugural Address
Barack Obama
4 pages
U.S. Senate Resolution Apologizing for the Enslavement and Racial Segregation of African Americans
5 pages
Barack Obama: Address to the NAACP Centennial Convention
Barack Obama
4 pages
Tamara Winfrey Harris: “All Hail the Queen?”
Tamara Winfrey Harris
3 pages
Ruth Bader Ginsburg: Dissent in Shelby County v. Holder
4 pages
Alicia Garza: “A Herstory of the #BlackLivesMatter Movement”
Alicia Garza
3 pages
“Movement for Black Lives”: Vision for Black Lives Preamble
Patrisse Cullors, Alicia Garza, Opal Tometi
4 pages
Barack Obama: Farewell Address
Barack Obama
4 pages
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The Schlager Anthology of Black America offers a modern, original sourcebook covering Black history from the 1500s to the present. From the creators and publishers of Milestone Documents in American History, this new three-volume set is built on the principles of inclusivity and accessibility. While presenting the essential primary sources from Black history, from iconic figures such as Frederick Douglass, W.E.B. Du Bois, and Martin Luther King Jr., this anthology also emphasizes often-marginalized voices, from women to those in the LGBTQ community. In addition, document texts are abridged to remain brief and accessible, even to struggling readers (including ESL students), while activity questions range in difficulty from basic to more advanced. Edited by Dan Royles (To Make the Wounded Whole) and featuring the contributions of numerous scholars, The Schlager Anthology of Black America covers more than 250 milestone sources from African American history.
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