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" Milestone documents in African American history : "
Paul Finkelman, editor in chief.
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963516
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Milestone documents in African American history : : exploring the essential primary sources /\ Paul Finkelman, editor in chief.
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Dallas, Tex. :: Schlager Group,, ©2010.
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Milestone documents
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4 volumes :: illustrations ;; 29 cm
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1935306057
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: 1935306146
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: 9781935306122
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1935306154
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9781935306153
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Includes bibliographical references.
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V. 1. 1619-1852 -- v. 2. 1853-1900 -- v. 3. 1901-1964 -- v. 4. 1965-2009.
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v. 1. 1619-1852 : John Rolfe's letter to Sir Edwin Sandys ; Virginia's Act XII: Negro women's children to serve according to the conditions of the mother ; Virginia's Act III: Baptism does not exempt slaves from bondage ; "A minute against slavery, addressed to Germantown Monthly Meeting" ; John Woolman's Some considerations on the keeping of negroes ; Lord Dunmore's proclamation -- Petition of Prince Hall and other African Americans to the Massachusetts General Court ; Pennsylvania: An act for the gradual abolition of slavery ; Thomas Jefferson's Notes on the State of Virginia ; Slavery clauses in the U.S. Constitution ; Benjamin Bannerer's Letter to Thomas Jefferson ; Fugitive slave act of 1793 ; Richard Allen : "An address to those who keep slaves, and approve the practice" ; Prince Hall: A charge delivered to the African Lodge ; Ohio Black Code ; Peter Williams, Jr.'s "Oration on the abolition of the slave trade" ; Samuel Cornish and John Russworm's first Freedom's Journal editorial ; David Walker's Appeal to the coloured citizens of the world ; State v. Mann ; William Lloyd Garrison's first Liberator editorial ; The cofessions of Nat Turner ; United States v. Amistad ; Prigg v. Pennsylvania ; Henry Highland Garnet: "An address to the slaves of the United States of America" ; William Wells Brown's "Slavery as it is" ; First editorial of the North Star ; Roberts v. City of Boston ; Fugitive slave act of 1850 ; Narrative of the life of Henry Box Brown, written by himself ; Sojourner Truth's "Ain't I a woman?" ; Frederick Douglass's "What to the slave is the Fourth of July?" ; Martin Delany: The condition, elevation, emigration, and destiny of the colored people of the United States
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v. 2. 1853-1900 :Twelve years a slave: narrative of Solomon Northup ; Dred Scott v. Sandford ; John S. Rock's "Whenever the colored man is elevated, it will be by his own exertions" ; Virginia slave code ; Harriet Jacobs's Incidents in the life of a slave girl ; Osborne P. Anderson: A voice from Harper's Ferry ; Emancipation Proclamation ; Frederick Douglass: "Men of color, to arms!" ; War Department general order 143 ; Thomas Morris Chester's Civil War dispatches ; William T. Sherman's special field order no. 15 ; Black code of Mississippi ; Thirteenth amendment to the U.S. Constitution ; Testimony before the Joint Committee on Reconstruction on Atrocities in the South Against Blacks ; Fourteenth amendment to the U.S. Constitution ; Henry McNeal Turner's speech on his expulsion from the Georgia Legislature ; Fifteenth amendment to the U.S. Constitution ; Ku Klux Klan act ; United States v. Cruikshank ; Richard Harvey Cain's "All that we ask is equal laws, equal legislation, and equal rights" ; Civil rights cases ; T. Thomas Fortune: "The present relations of labor and capital" ; Anna Julia Cooper's "Womanhood: a vital element in the regeneration and progress of a race" ; John Edward Bruce's "Organized resistance is our best remedy" ; John L. Moore's " In the lion's mouth" ; Josephine St. Pierre Ruffin's " Address to the First National Conference of Colored Women" ; Booker T. Washington's Atlanta Exposition address ; Plessy v. Ferguson ; Mary Church Terrell: "The progress of colored women" ; Ida B. Wells-Barnett's "Lynch law in America."
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v. 3. 1901-1964 : George White's Farewell address to Congress ; W.E.B. Du Bois: The souls of black folk ; Niagara Movement declaration of principles ; Theodore Roosevelt's Brownsville legacy special message to the Senate ; Act in relation to the organization of a colored regimant in the City of New York ; Monroe Trotter's protest to Woodrow Wilson ; Guinn v. United States ; William Pickens: "The kind of democracy the negro expects" ; Thirty years of lynching in the United States ; Cyril Briggs's Summary of the program and aims of the African Blood Brotherhood ; Walter F. White: "The eruption of Tulsa" ; Marcus Garvey: "The principles of the Universal Negro Improvement Association" ; Alain Locke's "Enter the new negro" ; James Weldon Johnson's "Harlem: the culture capital" ; Alice Moore Dunbar-Nelson: "The negro woman and the ballot" ; John P. Davis: "A black inventory of the New Deal" ; Robert Clifton Weaver: "The New Deal and the negro: a look at the facts" ; Charles Hamilton Houston's "Educational inequalities must go!" ; Walter F. White's "U.S. Department of (white) Justice" ; Mary McLeod Bethune's "What does American democracy mean to me?" ; A. Philip Randolph's "Call to negro America to march on Washington" ; To secure these rights ; Executive order 9981 ; Ralph J. Bunche: "The barriers of race can be surmounted" ; Sweatt v. Painter ; Haywood Patterson and Earl Conrad's Scottsboro boy ; Brown v. Board of Education ; Marian Anderson's My lord, what a morning ; Roy Wilkins: "The clock will not be turned back" ; George Wallace's inaugural address as governor ; Martin Luther King, Jr.: "Letter from Birmingham Jail" ; John F. Kennedy's civil rights address ; Martin Luther King, Jr.: "I have a dream" ; Civil rights act of 1964 ; Fannie Lou Hamer's testimony at the Democratic National Convention
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v. 4. 1965-2009 : Malcolm X: "After the bombing" ; Moynihan report ; South Carolina v. Katzenbach ; Stokely Carmichael's "Black power" ; Bond v. Floyd ; Martin Luther King, Jr.: "Beyond Vietnam: a time to break silence" ; Loving v. Virginia ; Kerner Commission Report summary ; Eldridge Cleaver's "Education and revolution" ; Jesse Owens's Blackthink: my life as black man and white man" ; Angela Davis's "Political prisoners, prisons, and black liberation" ; Clay v. United States ; Jackie Robinson's I never had it made ; Final report of the Tuskegee Syphilis Study ad hoc advisory panel ; FBI report on Eiijah Muhammad ; Shirley Chisholm: "The black woman in contemporary America" ; Thurgood Marshall's equality speech ; Jesse jackson's Democratic National Convention keynote address ; Anita Hill's opening statement at the Senate confirmation hearing of Clarence Thomas ; A. Leon Higginbotham: "An open letter to Justice Clarence Thomas from a federal judicial colleague" ; Colin Powell's commencement address at Howard University ; Louis Farrakhan's Million March pledge ; One America in the 21st century ; Ckarence Thomas's concurrence/dissent in Grutter v. Bollinger ; Brack Obama: "A more perfect union" ; Barack Obama's inaugural address ; U.S. Senate resolution apologizing for the enslavement and racial segregation of African Americans ; Barack Obama's address to the NAACP Centennial Convention.
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Among the documents included in the set are important legislative documents such as the Reconstruction era amendments; critical Supreme Court decisions from Dred Scott v. Sandford to Plessy v. Ferguson to Brown v. Board of Education; and iconic speeches and writings by leaders such as Sojourner Truth, Frederick Douglass, Booker T. Washington, W.E.B. Du Bois, Mary McLeod Bethune, Martin Luther King Jr., Shirley Chisholm, and Barack Obama. Key congressional reports, executive orders, and letters help round out our coverage, providing an invaluable collection of primary documents that is paired with extensive original commentary that helps students understand the documents.
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African Americans-- History, Sources.
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African Americans-- History, Sources.
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African Americans.
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United States, History, Sources.
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United States, History, Sources.
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United States.
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| Dewey Classification
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305.896073
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E184.6.M55 2010
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Finkelman, Paul,1949-
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