Great documents in Black American history /
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New York :
Praeger Publishers,
[1970]
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction / C. Eric Lincoln
- Some considerations on the keeping of Negroes / John Wollman
- Notes on the State of Virginia / Thomas Jefferson
- Copy of a letter from Benjamin Banneker to the Secretary of State with his answer
- Essay on Negro slavery / "Othello"
- The life of Olaudah Equiano, the African / Gustavus Vassa
- An address to the inhabitants of Philadelphia against the Colonization Society / James Forten (and Russell Perrott?)
- Appeal, in four articles, together with a preamble to the colored citizens of the world, but in particular, and very expressly to those of the United States of America / David Walker
- The confessions of Nat Turner, the leader of the late insurrection in Southampton, Va., as fully and voluntarily made to Thomas R. Gray
- Narrative of the life of Frederick Douglass, an American slave, written by himself
- The condition, elevation, emigration, and destiny of the colored people of the United States / Martin Robison Delany
- Speech at the Atlanta Exposition and what I am trying to do / Booker T. Washington
- Of Mr. Booker T. Washington and others and the Colored world within / W.E. Burghardt Du Bois
- Philosophy and opinions / Marcus Garvey
- The new Negro / Alain Locke
- The Negro artist and the racial mountain / Langston Hughes
- How "Bigger" was born / Richard Wright
- Brown et al. v. Board of Education of Topeka et al. / Earl Warren
- Black bourgeoisie / E. Franklin Frazier
- Letter from Birmingham Jail / Martin Luther King, Jr.
- My dungeon shook : letter to my nephew on the one hundredth anniversary of the Emancipation / James Baldwin
- Speech at the Harvard Law School Forum of December 16, 1964 / Malcolm X
- The legacy of Malcolm X, and the coming of age of the Black nation / LeRoi Jones.