A Constant Struggle: African-American History 1865-Present
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A Constant Struggle: African-American History 1865-Present

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The A Constant Struggle: Documents and Readings in African American History volumes provide essential primary source documents and informative essays for the study of African American history from its African origins to contemporary times. The volumes assist in building critical thinking skills for the analysis of the historical record based on the sources pertinent to the topics under discussion and the interpretation of noted historians. A Constant Struggle functions as the primary or supplementary text in African American history, United States history, or Black/ Africana studies courses.

Table of Contents:
Introduction: Why Study Black History?  Documents1. The Ideology of White Supremacy  2. America Taught My Son's Killer to Hate Blacks      Camille O. Cosby 3. Official Police Report on the Murder of James Byrd, Jr. of Jasper, Texas  4. The Objectives of the Association for the Study of Negro Life and History (1937)      Mary McLeod Bethune 5. The Black Family in Crisis      Daniel Patrick Moynihan 6. A Conservative Writer Discusses the Benefits of Slavery (1995)      Dinesh D'Souza 7. A Historian Discusses the Roots of Institutional Racism (1995)      Sean Wilentz8. Black History: A Spoken Word Poet Reflects (2004)      Christo Johnson Essay1. The Differences Between Negro History and Black History (1971)      Vincent Harding Chapter 1: The Civil War  Documents1. Abraham Lincoln Quotes  2. What We Are to Expect Now That Mr. Lincoln Is Re-elected  3. The Emancipation Proclamation (1863)      Abraham Lincoln4. Letter from Missouri Black Soldier to His Daughter's Owner (1864)      Spotswood Rice 5. Letter from Missouri Black Solider to His Enslaved Daughters (1864)      Spotswood Rice 6. The Civil War Amendments (1865-1870)  7. Black Codes of Mississippi (1865)  8. A Freedwoman Praises Her Father (1904)      Anonymous Essay1. The Glorious Cause of Freedom: Emancipation, Patriotism, and African-American      Service in the Civil War      Dr. Roger Davidson, Jr. Chapter 2: Reconstruction  Documents1. Freedman Appeal for Education: Northern Aid to Negro Education (1866)  2. The Freedman's Bureau Cartoon  3. Black Women's Rights, White Women's Displeasure (1867)  4. John Wesley Hardin of Texas: Peerless Gunman (1868-75)  5. Ku Klux Klan Discipline (1871)  6. What Is to Become of the African in Our Country? (1868)      John W. DeForrest 7. Enforcement Act of 1870  8. Slaughterhouse Cases (1873)  9. United States v. Cruishank (1875), United States v. Reese (1875), & United States v. Harris (1883)   Essays1. Reconstruction and Its Benefits      W. E. B. Du Bois2. Making Freedom Pay: Freedpeople Working for Themselves (1865-1900)      Sharon Ann Holt Chapter 3: The Origins of Jim Crow  Documents1. A Pennsylvania Judge Endorses Segregation in Places of Public Accommodation       (1867)  2. The Civil Rights Act (1875)  2. Civil Rights Cases (1883)  3. A Sharecropping Contract (1886)  4. A Crop Lien (1876)  5. Literacy Test and Poll Tax (1899)  6. Oklahoma Grandfather Clause (1866)  7. The Freedman's Case (1855)      George Washington Cable8. Plessy v. Ferguson (1896)      Henry Brown 9. Dissenting Opinion in Plessy v. Ferguson (1896)      John Marshall Harlan 10. State Laws on Race and Color (1865-1927)  11. "Jim Crow" Laws (1896-1950)  Essays1. American Polygeny and Craniometry before Darwin      Stephen Jay Gould 2. Trouble in Mind: The Bicentennial and the Afro-American Experience      Leon F. Litwack Chapter 4: Resistance and Accommodation  Documents1. Frederick Douglass Calls on the Freedmen to Organize for Self-Defense (1883)      Frederick Douglass  2. Bishop Henry M. Turner Questions the Motivations of the United States Supreme     Court (1883)  3. The Atlanta Exposition Address (1895)      Booker T. Washington 4. The Beginnings of the National Club Movement: Club Work Among Negro Women     (1895)      Margaret Murray Washington


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9780757517594
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Height: 232 mm
  • No of Pages: 706
  • Width: 184 mm
  • ISBN-10: 0757517595
  • Edition: Revised edition
  • Language: English
  • Spine Width: 35 mm


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