Preface to the First Edition |
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Preface to the Second Edition |
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Introduction Resistance, Reform, and Renewal in the Black Experience |
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Section One Foundations: Slavery and Abolitionism, 1768-1861 |
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``On Being Brought from Africa to America'' Equiano'' |
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``The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano'' |
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``Thus Doth Ethiopia Stretch Forth Her Hand from Slavery, to Freedom and Equality'' |
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17 | (3) |
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The Founding of the African Methodist Episcopal Church |
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20 | (4) |
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David Walkers ``Appeal,'' 1829-1830 |
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24 | (10) |
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The Statement of Nat Turner, 1831 |
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34 | (5) |
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Slaves Are Prohibited to Read and Write by Law |
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39 | (1) |
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``What If I Am a Woman?'' |
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40 | (6) |
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A Slave Denied the Rights to Marry, Letter of Milo Thompson, Slave, 1834 |
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The Selling of Slaves, Advertisement, 1835 |
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47 | (2) |
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Solomon Northrup Describes a New Orleans Slave Auction, 1841 |
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49 | (2) |
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Cinque and the Amistad Revolt, 1841 |
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51 | (5) |
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``Let Your Motto Be Resistance!'' |
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56 | (7) |
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63 | (3) |
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66 | (2) |
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``A Plea for Emigration, or, Notes of Canada West'' |
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68 | (2) |
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A Black Nationalist Manifesto |
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70 | (14) |
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``What to the Slave Is the Fourth of July?'' |
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84 | (4) |
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``No Rights That a White Man Is Bound to Respect'': The Dred Scott Case and Its Aftermath |
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88 | (19) |
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``Whenever the Colored Man Is Elevated, It Will Be by His Own Exertions'' |
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107 | (4) |
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The Spirituals: ``Go Down, Moses'' and ``Didn't My Lord Deliver Daniel'' |
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111 | (4) |
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Section Two Reconstruction and Reaction: The Aftermath of Slavery and the Dawn of Segregation, 1861-1915 |
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``What the Black Man Wants'' |
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122 | (6) |
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Henry McNeal Turner, Black Christian Nationalist |
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128 | (4) |
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Black Urban Workers during Reconstruction |
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132 | (3) |
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``Labor and Capital Are in Deadly Conflict'' |
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135 | (3) |
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Edward Wilmot Blyden and the African Diaspora |
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138 | (12) |
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``The Democratic Idea Is Humanity'' |
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150 | (9) |
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``A Voice from the South'' |
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159 | (6) |
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The National Association of Colored Women: |
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165 | (6) |
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Josephine St. Pierre Ruffin |
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``I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings'' |
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171 | (3) |
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Booker T. Washington and the Politics of Accommodation |
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174 | (7) |
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``Atlanta Exposition Address'' ``My View of Segregation Laws'' |
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William Monroe Trotter and the Boston Guardian |
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181 | (2) |
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Race and the Southern Worker |
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183 | (8) |
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``A Negro Woman Speaks'' ``The Race Question a Class Question'' ``Negro Workers!'' |
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Ida B. Wells-Barnett, Crusader for Justice |
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191 | (4) |
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William Edward Burghardt Du Bois |
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195 | (14) |
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Excerpts from ``The Conservation of Races'' Excerpts from The Souls of Black Folk |
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The Niagara Movement, 1905 |
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209 | (4) |
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Hubert Henry Harrison, Black Revolutionary Nationalist |
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213 | (4) |
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Section Three From Plantation to Ghetto: The Great Migration, Harlem Renaissance, and World War, 1915-1954 |
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217 | (124) |
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Black Conflict over World War I |
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224 | (3) |
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227 | (1) |
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Black Bolsheviks: Cyril V. Briggs and Claude McKay |
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228 | (13) |
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Marcus Garvey and the Universal Negro Improvement Association |
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241 | (10) |
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251 | (2) |
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Langston Hughes and the Harlem Renaissance |
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253 | (11) |
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``The Negro Woman and the Ballot'' |
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264 | (3) |
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Alice Moore Dunbar-Nelson |
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James Weldon Johnson and Harlem in the 1920s |
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267 | (6) |
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Black Workers in the Great Depression |
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273 | (6) |
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The Scottsboro Trials, 1930s |
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279 | (2) |
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``You Cannot Kill the Working Class'' |
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281 | (7) |
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Hosea Hudson, Black Communist Activist |
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288 | (6) |
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``Breaking the Bars to Brotherhood'' |
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294 | (4) |
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Adam Clayton Powell, Jr., and the Fight for Black Employment in Harlem |
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298 | (2) |
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Black Women Workers during the Great Depression |
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300 | (6) |
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Southern Negro Youth Conference, 1939 |
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306 | (2) |
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A. Philip Randolph and the Negro March on Washington Movement, 1941 |
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308 | (6) |
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Charles Hamilton Houston and the War Effort among African Americans, 1944 |
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314 | (2) |
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``An End to the Neglect of the Problems of the Negro Woman!'' |
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316 | (10) |
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``The Negro Artist Looks Ahead'' |
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326 | (5) |
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Thurgood Marshall: The Brown Decision and the Struggle for School Desegregation |
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331 | (10) |
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Section Four We Shall Overcome: The Second Reconstruction, 1954-1975 |
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Rosa Parks, Jo Ann Robinson, and the Montgomery Bus Boycott, 1955-1956 |
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352 | (10) |
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Roy Wilkins and the NAACP |
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362 | (5) |
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The Southern Christian Leadership Conference, 1957 |
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367 | (4) |
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Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee and the Sit-In Movement, 1960 |
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371 | (1) |
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372 | (3) |
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``We Need Group-Centered Leadership'' |
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375 | (2) |
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Martin Luther King, Jr., and Nonviolence |
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377 | (6) |
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``The Revolution Is at Hand'' |
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383 | (2) |
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``The Salvation of American Negroes Lies in Socialism'' |
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385 | (10) |
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``The Special Plight and the Role of Black Women'' |
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395 | (4) |
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``SNCC Position Paper: Women in the Movement,'' 1964 |
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399 | (2) |
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Elijah Muhammad and the Nation of Islam |
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401 | (3) |
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Malcolm X and Revolutionary Black Nationalism |
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404 | (14) |
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418 | (17) |
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``CORE Endorses Black Power'' |
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435 | (3) |
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``To Atone for Our Sins and Errors in Vietnam'' |
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438 | (7) |
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Huey P. Newton and the Black Panther Party for Self-Defense |
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445 | (11) |
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``The People Have to Have the Power'' |
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456 | (3) |
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``I Am a Revolutionary Black Woman'' |
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459 | (4) |
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``Our Thing Is DRUM!'' The League of Revolutionary Black Workers |
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463 | (3) |
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Attica: ``The Fury of Those Who Are Oppressed,'' 1971 |
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466 | (3) |
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The National Black Political Convention, Gary, Indiana, March 1972 |
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469 | (4) |
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``There Is No Revolution Without the People'' |
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473 | (7) |
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``My Sight Is Gone But My Vision Remains'' |
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480 | (7) |
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Section Five The Future in the Present: Contemporary African-American Thought, 1975 to the Present |
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Black Feminisms: The Combahee River Collective Statement, 1977 |
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501 | (6) |
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``Women in Prison: How We Are'' |
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507 | (6) |
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513 | (2) |
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515 | (7) |
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``Shaping Feminist Theory'' |
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522 | (7) |
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The Movement against Apartheid: Jesse Jackson and Randall Robinson |
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529 | (6) |
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535 | (11) |
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546 | (6) |
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The Anita Hill-Clarence Thomas Controversy, 1991 |
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552 | (6) |
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558 | (8) |
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566 | (5) |
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``Crime---Causes and Cures'' |
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571 | (9) |
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Louis Farrakhan: The Million Man March, 1995 |
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580 | (4) |
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``A Voice from Death Row'' |
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584 | (2) |
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``Let Justice Roll Down Like Waters'' |
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586 | (6) |
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Black Radical Congress, 1998 |
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592 | (8) |
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2000 Presidential Election |
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600 | (3) |
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603 | (3) |
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World Conference Against Racism---Durban, South Africa |
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606 | (7) |
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African Americans Respond to Terrorism and War |
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613 | (4) |
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The Cosby vs. Dyson Debate, 2004-2005 |
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617 | (4) |
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U.S. Senate Resolution Against Lynching, 2005 |
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621 | (2) |
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Hurricane Katrina Crisis, 2005 |
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623 | (4) |
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Barack Obama's Presidential Campaign, 2007-2008 |
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627 | (16) |
Permissions |
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643 | (10) |
Index |
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653 | (24) |
About The Editors |
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