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Milestone Documents in African American History
Milestone Documents in African American History
Exploring the Essential Primary Sources
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Publisher: Schlager Group Inc
ISBN: 9781935306153
Pages: 1842
https://doi.org/10.3735/9781935306153

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Keywords: U.S. History, American History, African American History, Primary Sources, Primary Documents, U.S. History, American History, African American History, Primary Sources, Primary Documents
This 4-volume set covers 125 iconic primary documents from the 1600s to the present. Each entry offers the full text of the document as well as an in-depth, analytical essay that places the document in its historical context. Among the sources included in the set are important legislative documents such as the Reconstruction era amendments; critical Supreme Court decisions; and iconic speeches and writings by leaders such as Sojourner Truth, Booker T. Washington, Martin Luther King, Jr., and Barack Obama.
John Rolfe’s Letter to Sir Edwin Sandys 1619/1620
15 pages
Virginia’s Act XII: Negro Women’s Children to Serve according to the Condition of the Mother 1662
10 pages
Virginia’s Act III: Baptism Does Not Exempt Slaves from Bondage 1667
9 pages
“A Minute against Slavery, Addressed to Germantown Monthly Meeting” 1688
11 pages
John Woolman’s Some Considerations on the Keeping of Negroes 1754
16 pages
Lord Dunmore’s Proclamation 1775
9 pages
Petition of Prince Hall and Other African Americans to the Massachusetts General Court 1777
12 pages
Pennsylvania: An Act for the Gradual Abolition of Slavery 1780
12 pages
Thomas Jefferson’s Notes on the State of Virginia 1784
16 pages
Slavery Clauses in the U.S. Constitution 1787
18 pages
Benjamin Banneker’s Letter to Thomas Jefferson 1791
10 pages
Fugitive Slave Act of 1793 1793
11 pages
Richard Allen: “An Address to Those Who Keep Slaves, and Approve the Practice” 1794
12 pages
Prince Hall: A Charge Delivered to the African Lodge 1797
12 pages
Ohio Black Code 1803–1807
12 pages
Peter Williams, Jr.’s “Oration on the Abolition of the Slave Trade” 1808
13 pages
Samuel Cornish and John Russwurm’s First Freedom’s Journal Editorial 1827
13 pages
David Walker’s Appeal to the Coloured Citizens of the world 1829
18 pages
State v. Mann 1830
11 pages
William Lloyd Garrison’s First Liberator Editorial 1831
13 pages
The Confessions of Nat Turner 1831
15 pages
United States v. Amistad 1841
14 pages
Prigg v. Pennsylvania 1842
22 pages
Henry Highland Garnet: “An Address to the Slaves of the United States of America” 1843
14 pages
William Wells Brown’s “Slavery As It Is” 1847
18 pages
First Editorial of the North Star 1847
13 pages
Roberts v. City of Boston 1850
15 pages
Fugitive Slave Act of 1850 1850
15 pages
Narrative of the Life of Henry Box Brown, Written by Himself 1851
13 pages
Sojourner Truth’s “Ain’t I a Woman?” 1851
10 pages
Frederick Douglass’s “What to the Slave Is the Fourth of July?” 1852
21 pages
Martin Delany: The Condition, Elevation, Emigration, and Destiny of the Colored People of the United States 1852
18 pages
Twelve Years a Slave: Narrative of Solomon Northup 1853
12 pages
Dred Scott v. Sandford 1857
40 pages
John S. Rock’s “Whenever the Colored Man Is Elevated, It Will Be by His Own Exertions” 1858
13 pages
Virginia Slave Code 1860
13 pages
Harriet Jacobs’s Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl 1861
12 pages
Osborne P. Anderson: A Voice from Harper’s Ferry 1861
18 pages
Emancipation Proclamation 1863
12 pages
Frederick Douglass: “Men of Color, To Arms!” 1863
10 pages
War Department General Order 143 1863
10 pages
Thomas Morris Chester’s Civil War Dispatches 1864
14 pages
William T. Sherman’s Special Field Order No. 15 1865
13 pages
Black Code of Mississippi 1865
11 pages
Thirteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution 1865
11 pages
Testimony before the Joint Committee on Reconstruction on Atrocities in the South against Blacks 1866
17 pages
Fourteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution 1868
12 pages
Henry McNeal Turner’s Speech on His Expulsion from the Georgia Legislature 1868
14 pages
Fifteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution 1870
10 pages
Ku Klux Klan Act 1871
12 pages
United States v. Cruikshank 1876
17 pages
Richard Harvey Cain’s “All That We Ask Is Equal Laws, Equal Legislation, and Equal Rights” 1874
13 pages
Civil Rights Cases 1883
34 pages
T. Thomas Fortune: “The Present Relations of Labor and Capital” 1886
10 pages
Anna Julia Cooper’s “Womanhood: A Vital Element in the Regeneration and Progress of a Race” 1864
20 pages
John Edward Bruce’s “Organized Resistance Is Our Best Remedy” 1889
10 pages
John L. Moore’s “In the Lion’s Mouth” 1891
13 pages
Josephine St. Pierre Ruffin’s “Address to the First National Conference of Colored Women” 1895
9 pages
Booker T. Washington’s Atlanta Exposition Address 1895
12 pages
Plessy v. Ferguson 1896
22 pages
Mary Church Terrell: “The Progress of Colored Women” 1898
16 pages
Ida B. Wells-Barnett’s “Lynch Law in America” 1900
30 pages
George H. White’s Farewell Address to Congress 1901
11 pages
W. E. B. Du Bois: The Souls of Black Folk 1903
19 pages
Niagara Movement Declaration of Principles 1905
13 pages
Theodore Roosevelt’s Brownsville Legacy Special Message to the Senate 1906
14 pages
Act in Relation to the Organization of a Colored Regiment in the City of New York 1913
10 pages
Monroe Trotter’s Protest to Woodrow Wilson 1914
10 pages
Guinn v. United States 1915
17 pages
William Pickens: “The Kind of Democracy the Negro Expects” 1918
11 pages
Thirty Years of Lynching in the United States, 1889–1918 1919
19 pages
Cyril Briggs’S Summary of the Program and Aims of the African Blood Brotherhood 1920
11 pages
Walter F. White: “The Eruption of Tulsa” 1921
12 pages
Marcus Garvey: “The Principles of the Universal Negro Improvement Association” 1922
12 pages
Alain Locke’s “Enter the New Negro” 1925
17 pages
James Weldon Johnson’s “Harlem: The Culture Capital” 1925
14 pages
Alice Moore Dunbar-Nelson: “The Negro Woman and the Ballot” 1927
11 pages
John P. Davis: “A Black Inventory of the New Deal” 1935
14 pages
Robert Clifton Weaver: “The New Deal and the Negro: A Look at the Facts” 1935
13 pages
Charles Hamilton Houston’s “Educational Inequalities Must Go!” 1935
13 pages
Walter F. White’s “U.S. Department of (White) Justice” 1935
12 pages
Mary McLeod Bethune’s “What Does American Democracy Mean to Me?” 1939
12 pages
A. Philip Randolph’s “Call to Negro America to March on Washington” 1941
10 pages
To Secure These Rights 1947
20 pages
Executive Order 9981 1948
10 pages
Ralph J. Bunche: “The Barriers of Race Can Be Surmounted” 1949
12 pages
Sweatt v. Painter 1950
12 pages
Haywood Patterson and Earl Conrad’s Scottsboro Boy 1950
18 pages
Brown v. Board of Education 1954
12 pages
Marian Anderson’s My Lord, What a Morning 1956
14 pages
Roy Wilkins: “The Clock Will Not Be Turned Back” 1957
10 pages
George Wallace’s Inaugural Address as Governor 1963
14 pages
Martin Luther King, Jr.: “Letter from Birmingham Jail” 1963
18 pages
John F. Kennedy’s Civil Rights Address 1963
18 pages
Martin Luther King, Jr.: “I Have a Dream” 1963
13 pages
Civil Rights Act of 1964 1964
30 pages
Fannie Lou Hamer’s Testimony at the Democratic National Convention 1964
18 pages
Malcolm X: “After the Bombing” 1965
16 pages
Moynihan Report 1965
20 pages
South Carolina v. Katzenbach 1966
18 pages
Stokely Carmichael’s “Black Power” 1966
20 pages
Bond v. Floyd 1966
16 pages
Martin Luther King, Jr.: “Beyond Vietnam: A Time to Break Silence” 1967
18 pages
Loving v. Virginia 1967
14 pages
Kerner Commission Report Summary 1968
24 pages
Eldridge Cleaver’s “Education and Revolution” 1969
16 pages
Jesse Owens’s Blackthink: My Life as Black Man And White Man 1970
16 pages
Angela Davis’s “Political Prisoners, Prisons, and Black Liberation” 1971
18 pages
Clay v. United States 1971
17 pages
Jackie Robinson’s I Never Had it Made 1972
17 pages
Final Report of the Tuskegee Syphilis Study ad Hoc Advisory Panel 1973
14 pages
FBI Report on Elijah Muhammad 1973
16 pages
Shirley Chisholm: “The Black Woman in Contemporary America” 1974
14 pages
Thurgood Marshall’s Equality Speech 1978
14 pages
Jesse Jackson’s Democratic National Convention Keynote Address 1984
16 pages
Anita Hill’s Opening Statement at the Senate Confirmation Hearing of Clarence Thomas 1991
12 pages
A. Leon Higginbotham: “An Open Letter to Justice Clarence Thomas from a Federal Judicial Colleague” 1992
18 pages
Colin Powell’s Commencement Address at Howard University 1994
12 pages
Louis Farrakhan’s Million Man March Pledge 1995
10 pages
One America in the 21st Century 1998
14 pages
Clarence Thomas’s Concurrence/Dissent in Grutter v. Bollinger 2003
15 pages
Barack Obama: “A More Perfect Union” 2008
16 pages
Barack Obama’s Inaugural Address 2009
14 pages
U.S. Senate Resolution Apologizing for the Enslavement and Racial Segregation of African Americans 2009
15 pages
Barack Obama’s Address to the NAACP Centennial Convention 2009
15 pages
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Subject(s): U.S. History, American History, African American History, Primary Sources, Primary Documents, U.S. History, American History, African American History, Primary Sources, Primary Documents
This 4-volume set covers 125 iconic primary documents from the 1600s to the present. Each entry offers the full text of the document as well as an in-depth, analytical essay that places the document in its historical context. Among the sources included in the set are important legislative documents such as the Reconstruction era amendments; critical Supreme Court decisions; and iconic speeches and writings by leaders such as Sojourner Truth, Booker T. Washington, Martin Luther King, Jr., and Barack Obama.
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