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Renaissance in Charleston: Art and Life in the Carolina Low Country, 1900-1940
Format Hardcover
Subject Literary Criticism & Collections / American
ISBN/SKU 082032518X
Author James M. Hutchisson (Edt)
Publisher Univ of Georgia Pr
Publish Date August 2003

Review
During the first half of the twentieth century, the city of Charleston, South Carolina underwent a cultural revival known as the Charleston Renaissance. Directed at a general as well as a scholarly audience, this volume contains 11 essays on the writing, art, and thought that came from this remarkable community during the period 1900-1940. Topics include, for example, the avant-garde poetry of Beatrice Ravenel, the Gullah-inflected modernism of Julia Peterkin's Scarlet Sister Mary , and the racial politics of historic preservation in Charleston. Annotation (c) Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Table of Contents
List of Illustrations
vii
Preface ix
Introduction: The Charleston Renaissance Considered
1 (18)
Harlan Greene

James M. Hutchisson

The Lowcountry Lady and the Over-the-Mountain Man: Josephine Pinckney, Donald Davidson, and the Burden of Southern Literature
19 (16)
Barbara L. Bellows

To Sell the City of Charleston: The Visual Arts and the Charleston Renaissance
35 (22)
Martha R. Severens

``Mr. Bennett's Amiable Desire'': The Poetry Society of South Carolina and the Charleston Renaissance
57 (19)
Harlan Greene

Beatrice Ravenel: Avant-Garde Poet of the Charleston Renaissance
76 (20)
Curtis Worthington

Professional Authorship in the Charleston Renaissance: The Career of DuBose Heyward
96 (19)
James M. Hutchisson

The Only Volume in the Octagon Library: The Early Architecture of Charleston
115 (11)
Gene Waddell

The Legend Is Truer Than the Fact: The Politics of Representation in the Career of Elizabeth O'Neill Verner
126 (16)
Stephanie E. Yuhl

Gullah-Inflected Modernism: Julia Peterkin's Scarlet Black Madonna
142 (13)
Judith Giblin James

Laura Bragg and Her ``Bright Young Things'': Fostering Change and Social Reform at the Charleston Museum
155 (21)
Louise Anderson Allen

James T. Sears

Charleston's Racial Politics of Historic Preservation: The Case of Edwin A. Harleston
176 (23)
Susan V. Donaldson

Appendix: A Who's Who of the Charleston Renaissance 199 (12)
Notes 211 (32)
Selected Bibliography 243 (2)
Contributors 245 (2)
Index


The Chicago Black Renaissance And Women's Activism
Format Hardcover
Subject Social Science / Women's Studies
ISBN/SKU 0252030478
Author Anne Meis Knupfer
Publisher Univ of Illinois Pr
Publish Date November 2005

American Voices of the Chicago Renaissance
Format Hardcover
Subject Literary Criticism & Collections / American
ISBN/SKU 0875802583
Author Lisa Woolley
Publisher Northern Illinois Univ Pr
Publish Date April 2000

Review
Expanding on the view that 20th century Chicago-area writers transformed American literary standards by emphasizing the everyday speech of modern urban life, Woolley (English, Wilson College) shows how women and African Americans in particular negotiated the literary vernacular and linguistic purity movements. Among those featured in commentary and photos are reformer Jane Addams, poet Carl Sandburg, editor Harriet Monroe, and writers Marita Bonner and Fenton Johnson who adapted African- American traditions to the Chicago Renaissance style. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Table of Contents
Preface ix
Acknowledgements xi
Introduction 3 (13)
Dialect is A Virus

Chicago's Literary Vernacular amid Linguistic Purity Movements
16 (23)
Carl Sandburg and Vachel Lindsay

Composite Voices of the Open Road
39 (29)
Renaissance Women, Reformers, and Novelists
68 (83)
``The Best Conversation The World Has to Offer''

Chicago's Women Poets and Editors
91 (29)
Fenton Johnson and Marita Bonner

From Chicago Renaissance to Chicago Renaissance
120 (27)
Conclusion
147 (4)
Notes 151 (8)
Works Cited 159 (14)
Index 173

Papers of Clarence Mitchell Jr: Naacp Labor Secretary And Director
Format Hardcover
Subject Political Science / Civics
ISBN/SKU 0821416626
Author Denton L. Watson
Publisher Ohio Univ Pr
Publish Date July 2005

The Ticket To Freedom: The Naacp And The Struggle For Black Political Integration
Format Hardcover
Subject History / United States / 20th Century
ISBN/SKU 0813028329
Author Manfred Berg
Publisher Univ Pr of Florida
Publish Date June 2005

Not yet published
Review
Berg, a German historian, directs this work to scholars and general readers in an effort to correct what he views as the underrating of the contributions of the NAACP to American racial equality. The NAACP took a bold approach, not accommodating the slow timetable for racial equality favored by whites. The group pushed ahead with public protests of customs and legal challenges to laws that segregated and disadvantaged blacks, its efforts culminating in the Brown v. Board of Education triumph. The NAACP early on targeted lynching as the violent and grievous signifier of race hatred. The organization saw efforts to secure voting rights as central to full citizenship for black Americans. Berg details the growth of the NAACP, its successes and failures, and the major figures who helped advance the NAACP, including W. E. B. DuBois, Thurgood Marshall, Moorfield Storey, Walter White, and Oswald Garrison Villard. This book, first written in German, is part of a series of new perspectives on the history of the South. ((Reviewed May 1, 2005)) Copyright 2005 Booklist Reviews.

Roy Wilkins: Leader Of The Naacp
Format Library
Subject Juvenile Nonfiction / Biography & Autobiography / People Of Color
ISBN/SKU 1931798494
Author Calvin Craig Miller
Publisher Morgan Reynolds Pub
Publish Date May 2005

Table of Contents
From Poverty to Prosperity
9 (12)
Birth of the NAACP
21 (11)
Newspaper Crusader
32 (9)
Return to the South
41 (14)
Time for Change
55 (17)
A New Career
72 (19)
Jim Crow Goes to War
91 (14)
The Fight Becomes Clear
105 (13)
The Top Job
118 (16)
Not Backing Down
134 (17)
Promises Kept
151 (13)
Timeline 164 (1)
Sources 165 (6)
Bibliography 171 (2)
Web sites 173 (1)
Index 174

The First Waco Horror: The Lynching Of Jesse Washington And The Rise Of The NAACP
Format Hardcover
Subject History / United States / State & Local
ISBN/SKU 1585444162
Author Patricia Bernstein
Publisher Texas A & M Univ Pr
Publish Date March 2005

Table of Contents
Acknowledgments xi
Introduction 3 (170)
1. "Alert, Pushing, and Rich"
7 (22)
The Setting of the Waco Horror

2. "Active for Good"
29 (34)
The Beginnings of the NAACP

3. "Yours in a Glorious Cause"
63 (15)
The Investigator

4. Prelude to a Lynching
78 (9)
"Slogan Is Harmony and Efficiency"

5. An "Exciting Occurrence"
87 (32)
The Lynching

6. "Enough to Make the Devil Gasp"
119 (8)
How Could This Happen?

7. "The News Will Go Far"
127 (10)
The Immediate Aftermath

8. "Who Is She; a Detective?"
137 (22)
The Investigation

9. "Inject Lynching into the Public Mind"
159 (14)
The Follow-up Reaction

10. "Sheriff Stegall Is Prepared to Defend the Jail" 173 (19)
Change Comes at Last to Waco

Epilogue 192 (15)
"One of the Best Vote-Getters the County Ever Saw"

Notes 207 (28)
Bibliography 235 (10)
Index 245

The NAACP's Legal Strategy Against Segregated Education: 1925-1950
Format Paperback
Subject Political Science / Civil Rights
ISBN/SKU 0807855952
Author Mark V. Tushnet
Publisher Univ of North Carolina Pr
Publish Date January 2005

Table of Contents
Acknowledgments ix
Introduction xi
Setting the Course: The Grant from the Garland Fund
1 (20)
The Legal Background: From Margold to Houston
21 (13)
The Influence of the Staff
34 (15)
Thurgood Marshall and the Maryland Connection
49 (21)
Securing the Precedents: Gaines and Alston
70 (12)
The Campaign in the 1940s: Contingencies, Adaptations, and the Problem of Staff
82 (23)
The Strategy of Delay and the Direct Attack on Segregation
105 (33)
Conclusion: Some Lessons from the Campaign
138 (29)
Epilogue 167 (20)
Notes 187 (38)
Bibliography 225 (12)
Index 237

Freedom's Sword: The NAACP and the Struggle Against Racism in America, 1909-1969
Format Hardcover
Subject History / United States / 20th Century
ISBN/SKU 0415949858
Author Gilbert Jonas
Publisher Routledge
Publish Date December 2004

Annotation
The remarkable, lasting achievements of the NAACP's first sixty years at the forefront of the struggle against American racism are detailed in a history that provides a detailed history of the organization's formative years and its role in key events and aspects of the civil rights movement.

Table of Contents
Foreword xiii
Julian Bond

Introduction 1 (6)
Creating a Change Agent: the NAACP's Early Years

During which the new group rejects Booker T. Washington's accommodationist views for W. E. B. DuBois's militancy
7 (24)
The Law as a Weapon Against Unjust Laws

How Charles Hamilton Houston and Thurgood Marshall crafted the strategy that produced Brown v. Board of Education
31 (36)
Southern Retaliation Against Negro Determination

The NAACP's assault on Jim Crow places it in mortal combat with the Ku Klux Klan and the White Citizens Councils
67 (42)
Leading the African-American Quest for Political Power

James Weldon Johnson leads the fight against lynching, then Walter White Defeats President Hoover's Supreme Court nominee
109 (26)
Comes the Revolution: The Struggle Between The NAACP and the Communist Party USA

White and Wilkins Thwart the Communist Attempts to Win the Loyalty of American Negroes
135 (16)
World War II and Its Consequences for Race

The NAACP presses FDR to utilize Negro troops and open up defense industry jobs to Negroes with Mrs. Roosevelt's help
151 (18)
The Politics of Political Advancement

Passage of the 1964 Civil Rights Bill: As Dr. King leads southern civil rights confrontations, Roy Wilkins and Clarence Mitchell---with President Johnson's help---guide the passage of this unprecedented bill through Congress
169 (34)
Revolution at the Ballot Box

The fight for the 1965 voting rights act---led by the NAACP, a broad coalition joined by LBJ, Dirksen, and Humphrey wins congressional approval of voting rights bill
203 (28)
Black Workers, White Unions, and the Struggle for Job Equality

A. Philip Randolph and the NAACP challenge the AFL, while looking to John L. Lewis and the CIO for equity in the workplace
231 (34)
Head to Head with the Garment Workers Union

A case study of conflict between a powerful union and the NAACP: Herbert Hill exposes the racial labor practices of David Dubinsky and the Ladies Garment Workers Union
265 (16)
The End of Pretense: Organized Labor Refuses to Desegregate

George Meany and the AFL-CIO reject the NAACP's pleas to open labor's doors to opportunities for African Americans
281 (22)
Roy Wilkins: The Gentle Giant

Advisor to presidents and the nation's leading spokesman for black Americans, Wilkins' steady hand on the tiller brings the NAACP to its apogee
303 (54)
The NAACP Develops Financial Muscle

New white income sources drive program expansion---from Ford Foundation to Rockefeller, from General Motors to AT&T, the nation's neavy financial hitters extend their support to the NAACP
357 (34)
Epilogue 391 (8)
Notes 399 (72)
Bibliography 471 (10)
Photo Credits 481 (2)
Index

White: The Biography of Walter White, Mr. Naacp
Format Hardcover
Subject Biography & Autobiography / People Of Color
ISBN/SKU 1565847733
Author Kenneth Robert Janken
Publisher W W Norton & Co Inc
Publish Date February 2003

Annotation
A portrait of the late executive secretary of the NAACP documents his efforts as a civil rights champion and his work to outlaw segregation and racism, noting how his physical appearance as an African-American with light-colored skin enabled him to work undercover to expose southern lynch mob activities.

Review
Janken (African American studies, Univ. of North Carolina, Chapel Hill) has written the first scholarly biography of Walter White, a major figure in the struggle for civil rights. Named assistant secretary of the NAACP in 1918 and secretary in 1931, White was probably most noted for his investigation of lynchings of African Americans, which culminated in his exposé, Rope and Faggot (1929). Although his efforts to secure federal antilynching legislation in the 1930s failed, he did bring national attention to the horror of this crime. Under his leadership, the NAACP also intensified its legal struggle against segregation. Although essentially positive about White's accomplishments, Janken also notes his flaws, especially his tendency to micromanage and perhaps to enjoy the celebrity life a bit too much. This is a model biography of an important and neglected leader in the search for racial justice. Highly recommended for most libraries.-Anthony Edmonds, Ball State Univ., Muncie, IN Copyright 2003 Reed Business Information.

Table of Contents
Acknowledgments ix
Preface: The Man Called White xiii
Becoming Black
1 (28)
Witness for the Prosecution
29 (28)
Ambitions
57 (32)
Socializing and Civil Rights in the Harlem Renaissance
89 (40)
A Crooked Path to Power
129 (32)
A Hard Decade
161 (38)
Walter, Eleanor, and Franklin: The Federal Antilynching Campaign, 1933-1940
199 (34)
Radicals, Liberals, and Labor: The NAACP in the New Deal and the Great Depression
233 (28)
Live from the War Zones: Hollywood, Harlem, Europe, and the Pacific
261 (36)
The Making of a Cold War Liberal
297 (28)
Looking for a Larger Pond
325 (36)
``Mr. NAACP'' Is Dead: The Legacy of Walter White
361 (12)
Notes 373
Bibliography 345 (114)
Index 459

Till Victory Is Won: Famous Black Quotations from the Naacp
Format Paperback
Subject History / United States / 20th Century
ISBN/SKU 0743428250
Author Janet Cheatham Bell (EDT)
Publisher Pocket Books
Publish Date February 2002

Annotation
A collection of more than two hundred quotations--dealing with the topics of Protecting Civil Rights, Achieving Educational Excellence, Nurturing Economic Development, Reaching Youth, and Gaining Political Power--features the words of Hank Aaron, Maya Angelou, colin Powell, Oprah Winfrey, Duke Ellington, Langston Hughes, and other notable African Americans. Original. 35,000 first printing.

Review
Better suited to the African American studies collection than the reference shelf, this anthology of approximately 250 inspirational quotations gives a human, and often emotionally moving, dimension to goals fought for by the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) during its nearly 100-year history. Founders and leaders of the association as well as rank-and-file members are quoted. NAACP award winners are also included, adding the voices of celebrities, politicians, and athletes on such issues as educational excellence and economic development. Ten black-and-white photos illustrate important personalities and activities of the NAACP, and the book's research value is augmented by a chronology of events and lists of Springarn Medal winners and NAACP programs. Bell, editor of Famous Black Quotations and five other quotation anthologies, has included a four-page bibliography and an index by name of source. The relatively small number of quotations limits the book's usefulness as a reference source, as does the omission of information about where and when the quotations first occurred. Two more comprehensive collections, both recently published, are African American Quotations (LJ 9/15/98) and Songs of Wisdom: Quotations from Famous African Americans of the Twentieth Century (LJ 2/1/00). Recommended for public libraries. Vivian Reed, California State Univ., Long Beach Copyright 2001 Cahners Business Information.

Table of Contents
``Lift Every Voice and Sing'' xiii
Foreword xv
Julian Bond

Know Something to Believe in Something
1 (8)
Protecting Civil Rights
9 (24)
Achieving Educational Excellence
33 (22)
Nurturing Economic Development
55 (22)
Reaching Youth
77 (24)
Gaining Political Power
101 (24)
A Brief History of the NAACP
125 (24)
Chronology of NAACP Landmarks 149 (8)
Spingarn Medal Winners 157 (12)
Further Reading 169 (4)
NAACP Programs 173 (4)
Call for Centennial Submissions 177 (1)
Contact Information 178 (1)
NAACP Membership Application 179 (2)
Index 181 (6)
About the Author 187

Review
Gr 6-8-Coming of age during the Vietnam era, Bond made his mark as an early organizer for SNCC in Atlanta. He became nationally known when he was elected to the Georgia State House of Representatives but was refused a seat because of his outspoken antiwar views. When the U.S. Supreme Court overturned his expulsion and he was seated in the Georgia Legislature, his prominence was ensured and he was catapulted onto the national stage. In a variety of capacities since that time, he has actively sought to end racism and discrimination. Captioned, black-and-white photos show Bond at different stages of his life. A well-put-together, straightforward introduction to a respected activist.-Janet Woodward, Garfield High School, Seattle, WA Copyright 2001 Cahners Business Information.

Table of Contents
``The Infamous Mr. Bond''
7 (10)
Growing Up
10 (12)
School Days
22 (9)
Sitting In
31 (11)
Communications Director
42 (9)
``I'm Julian Bond''
51 (12)
Expelled
63 (11)
Chicago 1968
74 (14)
The Voice of Black America
88 (11)
Chairman of the Board
99 (10)
Race Man
109 (5)
Chronology 114 (2)
Chapter Notes 116 (8)
Further Reading 124 (1)
Internet Addresses 125 (1)
Index 126

Review
Writing styles of individual authors affect the readability of each volume in this series, ranging from enthusiastic to plodding and prosaic. The books will be useful where other material on each subject is limited. Unexceptional black-and-white photos are included as are websites and chronologies. Bib., ind. [Review covers these African-American Biographies titles: Julian Bond, Matthew Henson, Kweisi Mfume, Bessie Coleman, Harriet Tubman.] Copyright 2002 Horn Book Guide Reviews

Table of Contents
Introduction 3 (6)
PART I The Selected Writings of James Weldon Johnson, 1920--1937 9 (124)
James Weldon Johnson

A Chronology

Selected Reports of the NAACP Secretary to the Board of Directors, 1920--1929
13 (5)
December 1920
18 (5)
Anti-Lynching

Haiti

Reduction of Southern Representation Arkansas Situation

Ku Klux Klan

Louisville Bond Issue Civil Rights

Publicity

Literature Sent Out

March 1921
23 (4)
Anti-Lynching

New Jersey Legislature

Arkansas Cases Delegation to Senator Harding

National Woman's Party Haitian Mission

Publications

Publicity

Literature Sent Out Spingarn Medal Award

June 1921
27 (7)
Anti-Lynching

Tulsa, Oklahoma, Riots

Relief Fund Arkansas Situation

Jasper County Peonage Cases

Other Peonage Cases

Anti-Lynching Measures

Dyer Bill Inter-racial Commission

Committee on the Census

Haiti Jim Crow

Washington Correspondent

Frank A. Linney

``Birth of a Nation''

Boston Publicity

Publications

Literature Sent Out

August 1921
34 (7)
Anti-Lynching

Tulsa Riot Case

Arkansas Situation

Ray Extradition Case

Maurice Mays Case

Colored Railway Trainmen

Dyer Anti-Lynching Bill

Inter-racial Commission Bill Colored Men in the Navy

Haiti

Pan African Congress

Case of Arthur K. Bird

Morrestown, N.J., Case

Harlem Hospital Publicity

Colored Press

Publicity

February 1922
41 (6)
Dyer Anti-Lynching Bill

Lynching

The Bullock Extradition Case School Histories

Publicity

October 1923
47 (6)
Annual Conference

Twenty-Fourth Infantry

Johnstown, Pa. McCoy Rendition Case

Spruce Pine, N.C., Deportation

Publicity

October 1924
53 (7)
Residential Segregation

Washington Segregation Case

Louisiana Segregation Law

School Segregation

Young Women's Christian Association

Rochester Dental Clinic

Case of Samuel A. Browne William Pickron Rape Case

Louise Thomas

Mamie Pratt Case The Elias Ridge Case

Ellis Island Case

Lonnie Hunter, et al. Oteen Veterans Hospital

Senator Capper and the Ku Klux Klan Race Riot, Bridgewater (Va.)

Publicity

July 1925
60 (5)
Annual Conference

The Seventeenth Annual conference

General Bullard's Slander

Military Training Camps

Twenty-fourth Infantry The Luther Collins Case

The Elmer Williams Case

``Birth of a Nation''

Publicity

February 1926
65 (5)
Washington Segregation Case

Defense Fund

Dyer Anti-Lynching Bill

Anti-Intermarriage Bill

Disfranchisement

Ku Klux Klan (New York)

Lynching

Detroit Mob Violence

Oswald Durant Case

Attack on Fourteen-Year-Old Colored Girl

Case of the Rev. W. A. Price

Publicity

May 1926
70 (6)
Anti-Lynching Legislation

Louisiana Segregation Case

Kansas City, Mo., Segregation Case

Reprint of Decision in Louisville Segregation Case

Ku Klux Klan (Imperial, Pa.)

Mob Violence at Carteret (N.J.) Poteau (Okla.) Schools

Death of Dr. William A. Sinclair Lynching

Detroit Mob Violence Case

Indianapolis Segregation Ordinance

Cornelia Harris (Tennessee ``Incest'' Case)

Case of Mrs. Purnell

Case of Miss Espanola Holliday

Seventeenth Annual Conference

Publicity

November 1926
76 (5)
Washington Segregation Cases

LaBelle, Fla., Lynching Investigation Louisville Libel Case

Ray Vaughn and the United States Naval Academy Football Team

The Sweet Case

Dyer Anti-Lynching Bill Samuel A. Browne Case

New York University Discrimination The Aiken (S.C.) Lynching

Publicity

September 1927
81 (3)
Maurice Mays Case

Los Angeles Bathing Beach Segregation Case Pan African Congress

San Diego Hospital Discrimination

Publicity

October 1927
84 (5)
Extradition Case

The Edward Glass Case

The Samuel Kennedy Case

James Blevins Case

Gary (Indiana) School Desegregation Coffeyville (Kansas) Riot Cases

The Anderson Case (Fort Huron, Mich.)

The Abe Washington Case (Jacksonville, Fla.)

Peonage Investigation

Segregation in Government Departments

Roswell Hamilton Case

Discrimination by Siasconsett (Mass.) Bus Line Publicity

March 1929
89 (5)
Richmond (Va.) Segregation Ordinance

District of Columbia Appropriations Bill

Charleston Public Library Discrimination Case Roy Freeman Case

Robert Bell and Grady Swain

Edward Glass Case

Mr. Francis Willis Rivers Admitted to New York Bar

Smoker for Clarence Darrow

Lynching

Publicity

October 1929
94 (7)
Expulsion of Negro Members of Brooklyn (N.Y.) Protestant Episcopal Church

Shooting of Lincoln University Student by Brooklyn (N.Y.) Policeman

Louisiana Murder Case

Florida White Primary Case Asbury Park (N.J.) Case

Gary (Indiana) School Case

Arkansas White Primary Case

Turley Wright Rape Case

Lynching

Death of Mr. Louis Marshall

Will of Mr. Alfred M. Heinsheimer

Publicity Emergency Fund

Institute of Pacific Relations

Speeches, Essays, and Articles, 1920--1937
101 (32)
``The N.A.A.C.P Fight Against Lynching''
102 (3)
``Is the Negro a Danger to White Culture?''
105 (4)
``Presiding at Annual Mass Meeting Speech''
109 (3)
``Haiti and Our Latin American Policy''
112 (2)
``Achievements and Aims of the N.A.A.C.P.''
114 (2)
``The Militant N.A.A.C.P.''
116 (5)
``Address Before the Twentieth Annual Meeting of the N.A.A.C.P.''
121 (3)
``Leadership and the Times''
124 (9)
PART II The Selected Writings of Walter White, 1929--1955 133 (334)
Walter White

Selected Reports of the NAACP Secretary to the Board of Directors, 1932--1954
137 (3)
February 1932
140 (9)
The Scottsboro Cases

The Texas Primary Case

The Case of Robert Bell and Grady Swain

The Gary (Indiana) School Case

``The Birth of a Nation''

Judge James Baldwin

Senator La Follette's Unemployment Bill

The Villa Lewaro

The Daniel H. Williams Will

The Cutter House, Princeville, Illinois

Annual Conference Committee on Negro Work

The Tom Carraway Case

United States Supreme Court

The Case of Ernest Herring

Lynching

Haiti Rosenwald Offer

Publicity

March 1933
149 (8)
The Wagner Resolution

The Harlem Hospital Inquiry

The Joseph Crawford Extradition Case

The Scottsboro Cases

The Beaver Country (Pa.) Deportation Cases

The Lebanon, Tennessee, Mob Violence Cases

The Doris Weaver Case

University of North Carolina Discrimination Case

The Theodore Jordan Case

The Will Sanders Case

The Jess Hollins Case

Flogging at Clearwater, Florida

``The Green Pastures''

``Run Little Chillun Benefit'' Committee to Call upon President Roosevelt

Mr. Harold Ickes, Secretary of Interior

Publicity

January 1934
157 (6)
Overview

Mississippi Flood Control Project

The N.R.A. Legal Defense

Education

Lynching

Costigan-Wagner Anti-Lynching Bill

The Writers' League against Lynching

Harlem Hospital Committee

Cooperation

February 1936
163 (9)
The Van Nuys Resolution

Senator Borah and Anti-Lynching Legislation

Conference with President Roosevelt

Governor Eugene Talmadge (Georgia)

American Federation of Labor

Scottsboro Defense Committee

Brown, Ellington, and Shields (Kemper County, Miss.)

Amendment to the Lindbergh Kidnapping Law

University of Maryland Case

University of Missouri

``Medical Opportunities for Negroes''

Christmas Seals

Governor Lehman's Offer

National Office Lease

N.A.A.C.P. Birthday Celebration

Monthly Mass Meetings

Publicity

August 1940
172 (7)
Annual Conference

Republican and Democratic Platforms on the Negro

Mob Violence and Lynching at Brownsville, Tennessee Lynching

The Anti-Lynching Bill

Chicago Exposition

Federal Housing Authority Discrimination

Negroes in the Armed Forces The Ku Klux Klan

Norfolk, Virginia, Teachers' Salary Case Wilmington, Ohio, School Segregation Case

Texas Primary Case

February 1942
179 (10)
National Defense

The American Red Cross

Proposal of Volunteer Negro--White Division

Distribution of Leaflets at Joe Louis Fight Negro Hero at Pearl Harbor

Army Death Penalty Withdrawn Posters, Murals, Etc., Re: Defense and Stamps

Proposed Cuts in Non-Defense Expenditures

Farm Security Administration Loans for Poll Taxes

Speakers Bureau

The Secretary's California Trip Lynching

University Cases---University of Missouri (Bluford vs. Canada)

University of Tennessee Cases

Teachers' Salary Cases Birmingham, Alabama

Atlanta, Georgia (William H. Reeves School Board)

Richmond, Virginia (Antoinette E. Bowler vs. School Board)

Newport News, Virginia (Dorothy Roles vs. School Board) Palm Beach County, Fla., Stebbins vs. Board of Public Instruction Hillsborough County, Fla., Hilda T. Turner vs. Board of Public Instruction

Duval Country, Fla., Mary White Blocker vs. Board of Public Instruction

Marion County, Fla., Stark vs. Board of Public Instruction

September 1945
189 (7)
The Full Employment Act

The Fair Employment Practice Commission

The Pan-African Congress

National Public Housing Conference

National Housing Agency

Delmo (Missouri) Farm Homes

Office of Defense Transportation

The Washington Bureau

School Lunch Bill: H.R. 3370

Senator Eastland's Attack on the Negro Soldier

Voting Records of Senators and Congressmen

Veterans' Discrimination

Congressman Rankin ``Stay Out of Harlem'' Order

Work of the Membership Secretary

November 1947
196 (3)
Report of the President's Committee on Civil Rights

Petition to the United Nations

Probe of Alleged Communists in Hollywood Voting Record of Congressmen Published in Bulletin

N.A.A.C.P. Sends Greetings to C.I.O. A.F.L. Conventions

Forrestal Asked to Abolish Jim Crow

President Urged to Consider Eight-Point Medical Program

Article by Secretary in Saturday Review of Literature Article by Secretary in Collier's

April 1951
199 (10)
Annual Convention

Washington Conference on Civil Rights Winstead Amendment

Eighth Orientation Conference

Conference with Finletter

F.E.P.C.

Conferences with Secretary of State Acheson and Mr. Charles Wilson

American Jewish Congress Award to N.A.A.C.P.

Kappa Alpha Psi Contribution

Levittown Contribution to Inc. Fund---Ike Williams

Charges against Miss Loretto Chappell

Ford Foundation

Segregated Hospitals

Electoral College Resolution

Apprentice Training Legislation

Florida and North Carolina Elections

Segregation in the Armed Services Atomic Energy Commission

Investigation of Baltimore Employment Service

Mob Action against Florida Residents

Important Specific Cases

June 1951
209 (7)
Annual Convention

Washington Conference

N.N.P.A.--N.A.A.C.P. Conference--Cocktail Party

Public Housing

Bill to Protect Servicemen

Secretary's Statement Re: MacArthur

Ford Foundation Application

Committee to Defend Dr. Du Bois

Violence against Negroes

Appointment of Negro to Military Court of Appeals

December 1951 and January 1952
216 (5)
Leadership Conference on Civil Rights, 1952

Madison Square Garden Benefit

Death of Senator Capper

Bombing and Death of Mr. and Mrs. Harry Moore

Committee on Government Contract Compliance

Changes in Field Staff

Talmadge Demands Purge of Negroes on T.V.

Stuyvesant Town Evictions Withdrawn

N.A.A.C.P. Annual Meeting

Freedom of Choice Movement

Cost of Segregation

Stork Club

Death of Bishop Gordon

Death of Judge Patterson

Senate Rules Change Inadequate

Loyalty of Philleo Nash

Death of Harold Ickes

May 1954
221 (6)
Philip Murray Award

Virgin Island Bill

Supreme Court Decision in School Cases

Atlanta Conference

Loyalty Investigation of Dr. Bunche

Annual Convention

Speeches, Essays, and Articles, 1929--1955
227 (78)
``I Investigate Lynchings''
228 (9)
``The Negro and the Supreme Court''
237 (9)
``On Racist Textbooks''
246 (2)
``The Negro on the American Stage''
248 (6)
``Discrimination in Federal Control Construction''
254 (4)
``Negro Citizenship''
258 (2)
``Memorandum from Secretary'' Re: The Crisis, March 12, 1934
260 (5)
``Reds vs. the Freedom Train''
265 (1)
``White Hails Film on Anti-Semitism''
266 (2)
``Moral Advance Seen in Report by Committee on Civil Rights''
268 (1)
``Abolition of Racial Segregation at Truman's Inaugural Praised''
269 (2)
``Fate of Democrats in 1950 Seen Hinging on Stand on Civil Rights''
271 (1)
``A Sign of Political Change in the South''
272 (1)
``Fifty Years of Eighting''
273 (4)
``Report of Civil Rights''
277 (4)
``N.A.A.C.P. Forty-second Annual Meeting Speech''
281 (2)
``N.A.A.C.P. Annual Convention Speech''
283 (7)
``N.A.A.C.P. Forty-fourth Annual Meeting Speech''
290 (4)
``N.A.A.C.P. Forty-Fifth Annual Meeting Speech''
294 (7)
PART III The Selected Writings of Roy Wilkins, 1955--1977
Roy Wilkins, A Chronology
301 (4)
Selected Reports of the NAACP Secretary/Executive Director to the Board of Directors, 1955-1973
305 (3)
May 1955
308 (5)
Annual Conference

Annual Convention Board Meeting

Bandung Conference

Supreme Court Decision of May 21---Statement Celebration of May 17, 1954, Decision---Freedom Day

Killing of Rev. G. W. Lee of Belzoni, Miss.

Request Change in A.A.A.S. Convention Site

Humphrey--Daniel Resolution

Retention of Anti-Bias Ban in Army Bill

Death of Mrs. Bethune

Change in Convention Site by American Psychiatric Association

Eastland Resolution to Investigate Supreme Court

April 1963
313 (3)
Birmingham, Ala.

Reply to Congressman Powell

Clarksdale, Miss.

Firing of Dick Gregory

Freedom Walkers

Interview with U.S. News and World Report

Speaking Engagements

Death of Mrs. A. Philip Randolph

May 1963
316 (6)
Jackson, Miss.

Clarksdale, Miss.

Birmingham, Ala.

Supreme Court Anti-Segregation Ruling

Prince Edward County

Durham, N.C.

Discrimination in Federal Employment

Philadelphia Jim Crow Union

September 1963
322 (3)
Beating of N.A.A.C.P. Official---Shreveport, La.

Birmingham, Ala., Church Bombing

Challenge to Two Southern Governors Strengthened Version of Rights Bill

Inequitable Death Sentence Protested

Christmas-Buying Boycott

Speaking Engagements, Radio, T.V., Etc.

December 1963
325 (2)
Assassination of President Kennedy

President's Message to Congress

The Conference with President Johnson

Civil Rights Legislation

Speaking Engagements

April 1964
327 (3)
Civil Rights Bill

Strategy Meeting of Leadership Conference Dirksen Amendments

New Field Worker

Russian Magazine Article by Executive Secretary

Wallace in Indiana Primary

May and June 1964
330 (6)
Civil Rights Bill

Conference with Former President Eisenhower May 17 Celebration

Tribute to Cardinal Spellman

Goldwater Rights Stand

N.A.A.C.P. Telecast

Medgar Evers Memorial Day New York City Subway Rampage

Death of Prime Minister Nehru

July and August 1964
336 (8)
Speaking Engagements

Republican and Democratic Conventions Hospital Aid to Mississippi Victims

Pre-Convention Rally, Atlantic City, N.J.

Voter Registration

Call to Major Civil Rights Organizations

Board Members Study Mississippi Conditions Signing of Civil Rights Bill

Thanks for Cloture

Death of Senator Clair Engle

October 1964
344 (3)
Speaking Engagements

``Moral Decay'' Film

Congratulations to Dr. King

Urge Clemency for Condemned South Africans

Keating--Kennedy Campaign

Support of Candidates Who Voted for Civil Rights Bill

March 1965
347 (5)
Speaking Engagements

Alabama Voting Drive---March 7 Brutality Selma-to-Montgomery, Ala.

Death of Jimmie Lee Jackson, Rev. James Reeb, and Mrs. Viola Liuzzo

Voting Rights Bill---President's Message to Congress

Wire to Sponsors of Bill

Testimony Before Sub-Committee of House Judiciary Committee

June, July, and August, 1965
352 (4)
Weekened Conference in Birmingham

Visit of British Parliamentary Delegation

Memorial Service for Ambassador Stevenson

Meeting with President Johnson

Personnel Changes

U.S. Policy in Vietnam

Death of Judge Watson

Convention Greetings

Los Angeles Riot

January--March 1971
356 (3)
Speaking and Other Engagements

Angela Davis

Dwight D. Folsom

White House Briefings on Revenue-Sharing

Radio Corporation of America

Death of Whitney M. Young, Jr.

All White Private Academies

Food Stamps and Lunch Programs

First Quarter 1973
359 (4)
Speaking Engagements

N.A.A.C.P. Urges Senate to Reject Nomination of Peter Brennan for Secretary of Labor

Death of Lyndon Johnson

Death of Elmer A. Carter

Atlanta, Ga., School Desegregation Cases

Speeches, Essays, and Articles, 1955--1977
363 (104)
``The War against the United States''
365 (5)
``Integration Crisis in the South''
370 (5)
``The Film Industry and the Negro''
375 (4)
``Address Given at the National Negro Publishers Association''
379 (5)
``Mr. Wilkins Replies''
384 (3)
``At Youth for Integrated Schools''
387 (3)
``Freedom, Franchise, and Segregation''
390 (9)
``The Meaning of Sit-ins''
399 (7)
``Medgar W. Evers: In Memoriam''
406 (2)
``We Want Freedom Now''
408 (2)
``At American Association of Advertising Agencies''
410 (5)
``At Conflict '66---Virginia Polytechnic Institute''
415 (3)
``At White House Conference `To Fulfill These Rights' ''
418 (2)
``Sail our N.A.A.C.P. Ship `Steady as She Goes' ''
420 (9)
``Voluntary Segregation---A Disaster''
429 (1)
``Toward a Single Society''
430 (7)
``Ego and Race''
437 (1)
``Ralph J. Bunche''
438 (1)
``Adam Clayton Powell, Jr.''
439 (2)
``In Back of the Busing Issue``
441 (1)
``A. Philip Randolph''
442 (2)
``Mayor Tom Bradley of Los Angeles''
444 (1)
``The Task Ahead''
444 (7)
``Come over into Macedonia and Help Us!''
451 (5)
``Black Power or Black Pride''
456 (1)
``How Old the Civil Rights Movement''
457 (1)
``Black Mayors''
458 (2)
``Integration, the Only Way''
460 (1)
``Intelligence Tests''
461 (1)
``Black History Missing''
462 (2)
``Paul Robeson''
464 (1)
``Harassment of Dr. King''
465 (2)
Appendices 467 (40)
NAACP: A Chronology, 1909--1977
467 (31)
The Call: A Lincoln Emancipation Conference
498 (3)
The Committee of Forty
501 (2)
Resolutions
503 (2)
NAACP Officers, Executive Committee, and General Committee, 1910
505 (2)
Notes 507 (2)
Bibliography 509 (4)
Index

Table of Contents
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS ix (10)
INTRODUCTION xix (8)
Sondra Kathryn Wilson

EDITING THE CRISIS xxvii
W.E.B. Du Bois

Part One: Poetry 3 (44)
GWENDOLYN BENNETT

To Usward
3 (1)
ARNA BONTEMPS

Hope
4 (1)
Dirge
4 (1)
WILLIAM STANLEY BRAITHWAITE

Scintilla
5 (1)
BENJAMIN GRIFFITH BRAWLEY

The Freedom of the Free
6 (2)
STERLING BROWN

After the Storm
8 (1)
JAMES D. CORROTHERS

The Road to the Bow
9 (1)
JOSEPH S. COTTER, SR.

Shakespeare's Sonnet
10 (1)
COUNTEE CULLEN

Dad
11 (1)
Bread and Wine
12 (1)
Sonnet to Her
12 (1)
ALLISON DAVIS

Gospel for Those Who Must
13 (1)
JESSIE FAUSET

Again It Is September
14 (1)
Recontre
14 (1)
"Courage!" He Said
15 (2)
LESLIE PINCKNEY HILL

The Teacher
17 (1)
Vision of a Lyncher
17 (1)
FRANK HORNE

Letters Found Near a Suicide
18 (5)
Harlem
23 (1)
LANGSTON HUGHES

The Negro Speaks of Rivers
24 (1)
The South
24 (1)
Being Old
25 (1)
ROSCOE C. JAMISON

Negro Soldiers
26 (1)
CHARLES BERTRAM JOHNSON

Old Things
27 (1)
True Wealth
27 (1)
FENTON JOHNSON

My Love
28 (1)
GEORGIA DOUGLAS JOHNSON

Prejudice
29 (1)
Motherhood
29 (1)
Decay
29 (1)
Courier
30 (1)
JAMES WELDON JOHNSON

Father, Father Abraham
31 (1)
Brothers
31 (3)
Helene
34 (1)
The River
35 (1)
Moods
36 (1)
A Passing Melody
36 (1)
CLAUDE MCKAY

The International Spirit
37 (1)
ALICE DUNBAR NELSON

Sonnet
38 (1)
The Proletariat Speaks
38 (2)
EFFIE LEE NEWSOME

Exodus
40 (1)
Bluebird
40 (1)
The Little Page
41 (1)
ANNE SPENCER

Dunbar
42 (1)
White Things
42 (1)
JEAN TOOMER

Song of the Son
43 (1)
Banking Coal
44 (3)
Part Two: Fiction 47 (144)
FENTON JOHNSON

The Servant
47 (4)
JESSIE FAUSET

Emmy
51 (28)
JAMES D. CORROTHERS

A Man They Didn't Know
79 (10)
CHARLES W. CHESNUTT

The Doll
89 (9)
Mr. Taylor's Funeral
98 (11)
The Marked Tree
109 (13)
ARTHUR HUFF FAUSET

A Tale of the North Carolina Woods
122 (5)
RUDOLPH FISHER

"High Yaller"
127 (18)
EDWIN DRUMMOND SHEEN

The Death Game
145 (15)
ANITA SCOTT COLEMAN

Unfinished Masterpieces
160 (4)
MARITA O. BONNER

Nothing New
164 (8)
Drab Rambles
172 (9)
FRANK HORNE

The Man Who Wanted to Be Red
181 (10)
Part Three: Plays 191 (30)
JOSEPH SEAMON COTTER, JR.

On the Fields of France
191 (3)
WILLIS RICHARDSON

The Broken Banjo
194 (17)
MARITA O. BONNER

Exit, an Illusion
211 (10)
Part Four: Essays 221 (188)
PERSONAL ESSAYS
WILLIAM STANLEY BRAITHWAITE

Twilight: An Impression
221 (3)
E. FRANKLIN FRAZIER

All God's Chillun Got Eyes
224 (3)
MARITA O. BONNER

On Being Young--a Woman--and Colored
227 (5)
The Young Blood Hungers
232 (5)
LOREN R. MILLER

College
237 (5)
COUNTEE CULLEN

Countee Cullen to His Friends
242 (3)
AUGUSTA SAVAGE

An Autobiography
245 (2)
LITERARY AND CULTURAL ESSAYS
JESSIE FAUSET

New Literature on the Negro
247 (8)
The Symbolism of Bert Williams
255 (5)
JAMES WELDON JOHNSON

Placido
260 (3)
Negro Authors and White Publishers
263 (4)
ALAIN LOCKE

Steps Toward the Negro Theatre
267 (6)
CARL DITON

The National Association of Negro Musicians
273 (3)
CLAUDE McKAY

Soviet Russia and the Negro
276 (12)
W. E. B. DU BOIS

ALAIN LOCKE

The Younger Literary Movement
288 (5)
MAUD CUNEY HARE

Antar, Negro Poet of Arabia
293 (11)
WILLIAM STANLEY BRAITHWAITE

The Negro in Literature
304 (13)
W. E. B. DU BOIS

Criteria of Negro Art
317 (9)
ALLISON DAVIS

Our Negro "Intellectuals"
326 (8)
R. NATHANIEL DETT

A Musical Invasion of Europe
334 (7)
C. RUTH WRIGHT

Negro Authors' Week: An Experiment
341 (4)
SOCIAL ESSAYS 345 (64)
WALTER WHITE

The Work of a Mob
345 (6)
W. E. B. DU BOIS

Documents of the War
351 (9)
Marcus Garvey
360 (6)
MORDECAI WYATT JOHNSON

The Faith of the American Negro
366 (5)
E. FRANKLIN FRAZIER

Cooperation and the Negro
371 (3)
WILLIAM PICKENS

John Brown Day
374 (3)
HORACE MANN BOND

Temperament
377 (8)
JAMES WELDON JOHNSON

Three Achievements and Their Significance
385 (9)
ROBERT W. BAGNALL

The Present South
394 (6)
SUSIE WISEMAN YERGAN

Africa--Our Challenge
400 (9)
BIOGRAPHICAL NOTES OF CONTRIBUTORS 409 (12)
BIBLIOGRAPHY 421

CAROLYN WEDIN is professor of English at the University of Wisconsin at Whitewater and the editor of Black and White Sat Down Together: Reminiscences of an NAACP Founder by Mary White Ovington.

Annotation
A portrait of Ovington and her role in founding the NAACP

Table of Contents
Finding Her Avenue.
Taking Root.
From Social Researcher to Activist.
White Woman in a Colored World.
The NAACP Is Born.
Growing Pains.
Chairman of the Board.
Catalyst to the Harlem Renaissance.
Rifts and Evolution.
Traveling Fund-Raiser.
"Lift Ev'ry Voice and Sing."
Notes.
Bibliography.
Index.

Table of Contents
PREFACE vii (6)
DEDICATION AND ACKNOWLEDGMENTS xiii
1. Prologue: Making the NAACP Branch "a Necessity" in Chicago
1 (7)
2. Progressive-Era Chicago, 1900-1919
8 (9)
3. From Vigilance Committee to Branch, 1910-1916
17 (27)
4. "The New Negro" in the Black Metropolis, 1917-1924
44 (22)
5. The Black Patriarchy, 1925-1932
66 (24)
6. A. C. MacNeal and the "Whole Loaf or None at All," 1933-1937
90 (19)
7. Crises of Charter and War, 1938-1945
109 (19)
8. Democracy at Work, 1946-1953
128 (33)
9. At the Apex of Militant Activism, 1954-1957
161 (31)
10. Epilogue: The Era of the "Civil Rights Revolution," 1958-1966
192 (11)
NOTES 203 (44)
INDEX 247

Review
*(1896-1909) A well-balanced, readable text details the achievements of selected African-American men and women who rose above the ignominy of slavery and its aftermath to make significant contributions in the fields of education, politics, business, civil rights, and the humanities. Subjects include Booker T. Washington, Madam C. J. Walker, and Ida Wells-Barnett. Illustrated with black-and-white photographs. Bib., ind. Copyright 1998 Horn Book Guide Reviews

The "Naacp Comes of Age": The Defeat of Judge John J. Parker
Format Hardcover
Subject
ISBN/SKU 0253325854
Author Kenneth W. Goings
Publisher Indiana Univ Pr
Publish Date September 1990

Marcus Garvey: Black Nationalist Leader
Format Library
Subject Juvenile Nonfiction / Biography & Autobiography / People Of Color
ISBN/SKU 0791081591
Author Mary Lawler
Publisher Chelsea House Pub
Publish Date October 2004

Annotation
A biography of the black leader who started a "Back-to-Africa" movement in the United States, believing blacks would never receive justice in countries with a white majority.

Creative Conflict in African American Thought: Frederick Douglass, Alexander Crummell, Booker T. Washington, W. E. B. Du Bois, and Marcus Garvey
Format Paperback
Subject History / United States / 19th Century
ISBN/SKU 0521535379
Author Wilson Jeremiah Moses
Publisher Cambridge Univ Pr
Publish Date May 2004

Table of Contents
Part I. Introduction: Consistency ... the Hobgoblin of Little Minds: 1. The meaning of struggle
Part II. Frederick Douglass: The Individualist as Race Man: 2. Where honor is due: Frederick Douglass and representative man
3. Writing freely? Douglass's racialization, and desexualization
4. Frederick Douglass, superstar
Part III. Alexander Crummell: the Anglophile as Afrocentrist: 5. Africa, Christianity, and civilization
6. Crummell and the new south
7. Crummell, Du Bois, and presentism
Part IV. Booker Taliafero Washington: The Idealist as Materialist: 8. Booker T. Washington and the meaning of progress
9. Protestant ethic versus conspicuous consumption
Part V. Burghardt Du Bois: The Democrat as Authoritarian: 10. Du Bois on religion and art
11. Du Bois and democracy: a tragic realism
12. Du Bois protestant perfectionism and progressive pragmatism
Part VI. Marcus Moziah Garvey: The Realist as Romantic: 13. The birth of tragedy: Garvey's heroic struggles
14. Becoming history: Garvey and the genius of his age
Part VII. Conclusion: Saving Heroes from their Admirers: 15. Reality, contradiction and the meaning of progress.

Marcus Garvey: Controversial Champion of Black Pride
Format Library
Subject Juvenile Nonfiction / General
ISBN/SKU 0766021688
Author Anne E. Schraff
Publisher Enslow Pub Inc
Publish Date January 2004
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Annotation
Chronicles the life of Marcus Garvey, a controversial black leader who began a crusade for African Americans to fight against oppression in the early years of the twentieth century.

Review
Reviewed with Kramer's Mahalia Jackson. Gr. 6-10. These two new titles in the African-American Biographies series offer straightforward introductions to their subjects. Mahalia Jackson follows the life of the renowned singer from her childhood in New Orleans to her success as a world-famous gospel singer who made the music popular through her unique style. A good deal of attention is given to Jackson's civil rights activism. Marcus Garvey profiles the controversial leader of the early twentieth century Pan-African movement. Schraff offers some interesting insight into Garvey's legacy and how his separatist views on race influenced the later civil rights movement. The writing is not especially engaging in either book, but these titles offer solid information about their respective subjects. Included in each book are a chronology, chapter notes, suggestions for further reading, and recommended Web sites. ((Reviewed February 15, 2004)) Copyright 2004 Booklist Reviews.

Modern Black Nationalism: From Marcus Garvey to Louis Farrakhan
Format Paperback
Subject
ISBN/SKU 0814787894
Author William L. Van Deburg (EDT)
Publisher New York Univ Pr
Publish Date January 1997

Review
This wide-ranging selection of 52 documents in 37 sections locates black nationalism's historical roots and 20th-century sprawl. With an incisive introduction and headnotes, historian Van Deburg (African American studies, Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison) insightfully maps the movement's diversity and doctrinal debates, from its foundations to its expression in the Black Power era and into today. The persistent vitality and attraction of black nationalism's core concepts of self-definition and self-determination emerge from the variety of sources interviews, speeches, pamphlets, and essays. Although the book is without competition as a multifaceted documentary text of modern black nationalism's theoretical assumptions, operational agenda, and promotional efforts, it complements Wilson J. Moses's Classical Black Nationalism: From the American Revolution to Marcus Garvey (New York Univ. Pr., 1996) and Van Deburg's New Day in Babylon: The Black Power Movement and American Culture, 1965-1975 (LJ 8/92). Highly recommended for collections on blacks and U.S. political ideology. Thomas J. Davis, Arizona State Univ., Tempe Copyright 1998 Library Journal Reviews

Table of Contents
Acknowledgments xiii
Introduction 1 (18)
Suggestions for Further Reading 19 (4)
One Foundations of Modern Black Nationalism
Marcus Garvey and the Universal Negro Improvement Association
23 (9)
Universal Negro Improvement Association, Declaration of Rights of the Negro Peoples of the World, 1920
24 (8)
Federal Surveillance of ``Negro Agitators''
32 (2)
Memorandum to Special Agent Ridgely, 1919
33 (1)
J. Edgar Hoover

Cyril Briggs and the African Blood Brotherhood
34 (6)
The African Blood Brotherhood, 1920
35 (3)
Race Catechism, 1918
38 (2)
W. E. B. Du Bois and Pan-Africanism
40 (11)
To the World (Manifesto of the Second Pan-African Congress), 1921
41 (6)
Africa, 1924
47 (4)
Black Nationalism and the Harlem Renaissance
51 (8)
The Negro Artist and the Racial Mountain, 1926
52 (5)
Langston Hughes

I Am a Negro--and Beautiful, 1926
57 (2)
Amy Jacques Garvey

Depression-Era Communists and Self-Determination in the Black Belt
59 (5)
Speech on Black Self-Determination, 1931
60 (4)
Clarence A. Hathaway

Uncovering a ``National'' Past
64 (9)
The Suppression of Negro History, 1940
65 (8)
J. A. Rogers

A. Philip Randolph and the March on Washington Movement
73 (5)
Why Should We March? 1942
74 (4)
Richard B. Moore and the Pan-Caribbean Movement
78 (6)
Speech on Caribbean Federation at the Luncheon Meeting for Lord Listowel, 1953
80 (4)
Carlos Cooks and the African Nationalist Pioneer Movement
84 (9)
Speech on the ``Buy Black'' Campaign, 1955
85 (8)
Robert F. Williams and ``Armed Self-Reliance''
93 (4)
Speech from Radio Free Dixie, 1963
94 (3)
Elijah Muhammad and the Nation of Islam
97 (9)
Know Thyself, 1965
99 (2)
The Making of Devil, 1965
101 (2)
A Program for Self-Development, 1965
103 (3)
Malcolm X and the Organization of Afro-American Unity
106 (13)
Basic Unity Program, 1965
108 (11)
Two Black Nationalism in the Black Power Era
The Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee and Black Empowerment
119 (8)
Position Paper on Black Power, 1966
120 (7)
Frantz Fanon: Raising the Consciousness of the Colonized
127 (6)
Concerning Violence, 1961
128 (5)
Cointelpro and ``Black Nationalist Hate Groups''
133 (3)
Memorandum to Special Agent in Charge, Albany, New York, 1967
134 (2)
J. Edgar Hoover

Black Power Politics
136 (22)
National Black Political Convention, The Gary Declaration, 1972
138 (6)
National Black Political Convention, Model Pledge, 1972
144 (1)
Speech to the Congress of African Peoples, 1970
145 (13)
Amiri Baraka

Black Power in Education
158 (17)
Questions and Answers about Black Studies, 1969
160 (12)
Nathan Hare

Third International Conference on Black Power, Report of the Workshop on Education, 1968
172 (3)
Roy Innis and the Congress of Racial Equality
175 (7)
Separatist Economics: A New Social Contract, 1969
176 (6)
James Forman and the ``Black Manifesto''
182 (6)
Manifesto to the White Christian Churches and the Jewish Synagogues in the United States of America and All Other Racist Institutions, 1969
183 (5)
Black Power and Black Labor: The League of Revolutionary Black Workers
188 (9)
General Program (Here's Where We're Coming From), 1970
189 (3)
Our Thing Is Drum, 1970
192 (1)
Fight on to Victory: Interview with Ken Cockrel and Mike Hamlin, 1970
193 (4)
Liberating the ``Subjugated Territory''
197 (6)
The Anti-Depression Program of the Republic of New Africa, 1972
198 (5)
``First of all and Finally Africans''
203 (12)
Pan-Africanism--Land and Power, 1969
204 (11)
Stokely Carmichael

Black Art and Black Nationalism
215 (8)
The Role We Want for Black Art, 1969
217 (5)
Jeff Donaldson

Aunt Jemima, 1968
222 (1)
Murry N. DePillars

The Black Church and Black Power
223 (17)
National Committee of Black Churchmen, The Black Declaration of Independence, 1970
225 (4)
The Black Messiah and the Black Revolution, 1969
229 (11)
Albert B. Cleage, Jr.

Revolutionary Nationalism: The Black Panther Party and the Revolutionary Action Movement
240 (16)
Armed Black Brothers in Richmond Community, 1967
242 (2)
On Meeting the Needs of the People, 1969
244 (5)
Eldridge Cleaver

What We Want, What We Believe: Black Panther Party Platform and Program, 1966
249 (3)
Revolutionary Action Movement, The African American War of National-Liberation, 1965
252 (4)
Black Women and Liberation
256 (19)
Panther Sisters on Women's Liberation, 1969
258 (11)
To My People, 1973
269 (6)
Assata Shakur

Three Black Nationalism and Contemporary Society
Maulana Karenga: ``Keeper of the Tradition''
275 (13)
The Nguzo Saba (The Seven Principles): Their Meaning and Message, 1988
276 (12)
Afrocentricity
288 (7)
The Afrocentric Idea in Education, 1991
289 (6)
Molefi Kete Asante

Melanin and the Dynamics of Genetic Survival
295 (8)
The Neurochemical Basis for Evil, 1988
296 (7)
Frances Cress Welsing

Black Theology and ``The Dream of Freedom''
303 (12)
Black Theology and the Black Church: Where Do We Go from Here? 1977
304 (11)
James H. Cone

Louis Farrakhan and the Nation of Islam
315 (13)
P.O.W.E.R. at Last and Forever, 1985
316 (12)
The Black Belt Question Revisited
328 (5)
Which Way for the Black Belt Thesis? 1984
329 (4)
James Forman

The ``New Afrikan'' Case for Reparations
333 (9)
An Act to Stimulate Economic Growth in the United States and Compensate, in Part, for the Grievous Wrongs of Slavery and the Unjust Enrichment Which Accrued to the United States Therefrom, 1987
334 (8)
Imari Obadele

Toward African Liberation
342 (4)
Pan-African Revolutionary Socialist Party, A Plan of Action, 1984
343 (3)
``Political Prisoners and Prisoners-of-War''
346 (21)
The Black Panthers: Interviews with Geronimo ji-jaga Pratt and Mumia Abu-Jamal, 1992
347 (20)
``Forward Ever, Backward Never''
367 (8)
Interview with Charles Lionel James, 1987
368 (7)
Index 375

They Had a Dream: The Civil Rights Struggle from Frederick Douglass to Marcus Garvey to Martin Luther King and Malcolm X
Format Paperback
Edition REPRINT
Subject
ISBN/SKU 0140349545
Author Jules Archer
Publisher Penguin USA
Publish Date February 1996

Annotation
Traces the evolution of the civil rights movement and its impact on history through biographical sketches of four prominent, influential African Americans--Frederick Douglass, Marcus Garvey, Martin Luther King, Jr., and Malcolm X. Reprint. SLJ. PW.

Review
According to PW, dialogue and excerpts from speeches and writings are woven into thorough accounts of the private lives of four pivotal civil rights leaders for a "balanced and substantive" look at their lives and contributions. Ages 10-up. (Feb.) Copyright 1996 Cahners Business Information.

Table of Contents
Introduction viii
The History of the Black Struggle in America
1 (35)
Frederick Douglass
36 (46)
Marcus Garvey
82 (38)
Martin Luther King, Jr.
120 (64)
Malcolm X
184 (39)
The Black Struggle Today and Tomorrow
223 (28)
Bibliography and Suggested Further Reading 251 (3)
Index 254

Rasta and Resistance: From Marcus Garvey to Walter Rodney
Format Paperback
Subject
ISBN/SKU 0865430357
Author Horace Campbell
Publisher Africa World Pr
Publish Date May 1987

Table of Contents
Preface ix
Introduction 1 (10)
Do You Remember the Days of Slavery?
11 (32)
Slavery and the Roots of Resistance
11 (3)
Do You Remember on the Slave Ship, How They Brutalised my Very Soul?
14 (1)
When I Hear the Crack of the Whip, my Blood Runs Cold
15 (4)
Resistance to Slavery in Jamaica
19 (2)
Going Back to Africa, Cause I'm Black
21 (1)
Me No No Quashie
22 (2)
Of the Spiritual World and the Material World
24 (2)
Religion and Resistance
26 (1)
The Armed Slave Revolts
26 (5)
From Emancipation to the Morant Bay Rebellion of 1865
31 (4)
Cleave to the Black
35 (8)
Ethiopianism, Pan-Africanism and Garveyism
43 (26)
The Scramble for Africa
44 (3)
Ethiopianism
47 (3)
Pan-Africanism and Garveyism
50 (3)
Garveyism and Racial Consciousness
53 (4)
Garvey and the Symbols of Racial Pride
57 (6)
Garveyism in Jamaica
63 (6)
The Origins of Rasta - Rasta and the Revolt of the Sufferers in Jamaica 1938
69 (24)
The Origins of Rastafari
70 (3)
Rastafari, the Black World and the Italian Invasion of Abyssinia
73 (3)
Rastafari and the Ethiopian World Federation
76 (2)
The Capitalist Depression in Jamaica
78 (3)
And the People Rise Up in 1938
81 (5)
The Transition from Colonialism to Neo-Colonialism
86 (2)
Idealism and Materialism in Jamaica
88 (5)
Man in the Hills: Rasta, the Jamaican State and the Ganja Trade
93 (28)
Locksmen
95 (3)
Rastaman A Lion - from Quashie to Lion
98 (3)
Hail Jah Rastafari
101 (2)
Are Rastas Violent Cultists?
103 (1)
The University Report
104 (2)
Rasta, Ganja and the State
106 (1)
Outlawing a Popular Custom
107 (2)
Kola Nuts and Ganja
109 (3)
Operation Buccaneer
112 (3)
Coptics and the New Subversion
115 (6)
Rasta, Reggae and Cultural Resistance
121 (32)
Rasta and the Rediscovery of the Cultural Heritage of the Slave
121 (3)
The Roots of Reggae
124 (4)
Walter Rodney's Groundings with his Brothers
128 (5)
Dis Ya Reggae Music-Roots, Rock, Reggae
133 (7)
Bob Marley and the Internationalisation of Reggae and Rasta
140 (4)
Marley in Zimbabwe
144 (3)
Bob Marley, Rasta and Uprising
147 (1)
Cultural Resistance and Political Change
148 (5)
The Rastafarians in the Eastern Caribbean
153 (22)
The Nationalist Forebears of the Rasta
154 (4)
The Dreads
158 (1)
Rastas, Union Island and the Sea
159 (3)
The Rastas and the Grenadian Revolution
162 (5)
Rasta, Ganja and Capitalism
167 (2)
Rastas in Trinidad
169 (2)
Rastas, Guyana and the Left
171 (2)
Conclusion
173 (2)
The Rastafari Movement in the Metropole
175 (36)
Rastas and the Decline of the African Liberation Support Committee
175 (2)
The African Liberation Support Committee
177 (3)
The Canadian Dimension
180 (1)
Rasta, the Black Worker, and the British Crisis
181 (3)
The Education System and the Growth of the Rastas
184 (5)
Rastas and the State: The Case of Birmingham
189 (2)
From Shades of Grey to Cashmore's Rastaman
191 (1)
The Shades of Grey Report
192 (3)
Blacks, Rastas and the Prisons
195 (2)
Rasta and the Challenge of the Crisis
197 (2)
Rastafari Women
199 (1)
Whither Rasta? From Cultural Resistance to Organised Resistance
200 (2)
The New Cross Massacre and Uprisings
202 (1)
Uprising in 1981
203 (3)
Conclusion
206 (5)
Repatriation and Rastafari, the Ethiopian Revolution and the Settlement in Shashamane
211 (21)
Back to Africa
211 (1)
The Slaves and the Concept of Repatriation
212 (1)
The Sierra Leone Scheme
213 (1)
The Liberian Settlement
214 (3)
Marcus Garvey, Liberia and Repatriation
217 (1)
Garveyism and Bilbo
218 (2)
Rastafari and Repatriation
220 (4)
The Shashamane Settlement and the Ethiopian Revolution
224 (2)
The Unfolding of the Revolution
226 (3)
Rastas, Repatriation and Africa
229 (3)
Conclusion: Rastafari: From Cultural Resistance to Cultural Liberation 232 (4)
Index 236

The Marcus Garvey and Universal Negro Improvement Association Papers
Format Hardcover
Subject
ISBN/SKU 0520044568
Author Robert A. Hill (EDT)
Publisher Univ of California Pr
Publish Date November 1983

Annotation
Letters and archival documents depict the life of Marcus Garvey

Shaky Bones: a story of the Harlem Renaissance
by Pamela Dell

Author: Dell, Pamela

In 1926, a twelve-year-old aspiring poet nicknamed Shaky Bones enters the first annual Harlem All-School Young Poets Competition.

Maple Plain, Minn.: Traditions Books, c2004, 47 p.

Reviews for this Title:
School Library Journal Review: (The following is a combined review for Gavilan: A Story of Hollywood during the McCarthy Era and Shaky Bones: A Story of the Harlem Renaissance.) Gr 4-6–This series blends fact and fiction to describe moments in American history. Unfortunately, these titles are uneven. The books are attractive, full of archival black-and-white photographs with informative captions and sidebars throughout, but the first-person narratives are slight and dry. In Gavilan, seventh-grader Ben is ostracized when neighborhood kids learn that his father has been blacklisted. In Shaky Bones, 12-year-old Simon Brocade is growing up in a vibrant cultural atmosphere and aspires to be a poet, but is confronted with the accusation of plagiarism. In both titles, conversations are stilted and unfamiliar vocabulary is highlighted in a distracting manner (in bold and in a larger font) within the text. While the factual material is well presented, the books are unlikely to be read for pleasure. Each volume includes a brief history of the period, a time line, extension activities, and a few additional resources. A fine idea, but not well executed.–Rita Hunt Smith, Hershey Public Library, PA (Reviewed March 1, 2004) (School Library Journal, vol 50, issue 3, p208)



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Ebony rising: short fiction of the greater Harlem Renaissance era
edited by Craig Gable

Author: Various Authors

Bloomington: Indiana University Press, c2004, xlii, 552 p.
Notes:
Fifty-two short stories
Includes bibliographical references and index.


Contents:
Hope deferred / Alice Dunbar-Nelson -- The closing door / Angelina Weld Grimke -- Mary Elizabeth / Jessie Redmon Fauset -- The comet / W. E. B. Du Bois -- The foolish and the wise: Sallie Runner is introduced to Socrates / Leila Amos Pendleton -- The foolish and the wise: Sanctum 777 N. S. D. C. O. U. meets Cleopatra / Leila Amos Pendleton -- Becky / Jean Toomer -- Esther / Jean Toomer -- Vignettes of the dusk / Eric Walrond -- Blue aloes / Ottie B. Graham -- Slackened Caprice / Ottie B. Graham -- The city of refuge / Rudolph Fisher -- The golden penknife / S. Miller Johnson -- Mademoiselle Tasie / Eloise Bibb Thompson -- Grist in the mill / Wallace Thurman -- Hannah Byde / Dorothy West -- Muttsy / Zora Neale Hurston -- The Eatonville anthology / Zora Neale Hurston -- Cordelia the Crude / Wallace Thurman -- Smoke, lilies, and jade / Richard Bruce Nugent -- Wedding day / Gwendolyn B. Bennett -- City love / Eric Walrond -- Lynching for profit / George S. Schuyler -- Highball / Claude McKay -- Game / Eugene Gordon -- Masks / Eloise Bibb Thompson -- Bathesda of Sinners Run / Maude Irwin Owens -- He must think it out / Florida Ruffin Ridley -- Anthropoi / John F. Matheus -- Prologue to a life / Dorothy West -- Sanctuary / Nella Larsen -- Door-stops / May Miller -- Cross crossings cautiously / Anita Scott Coleman -- Why Adam ate the apple / Mercedes Gilbert -- The needle's point / J. Saunders Reddiing -- Crazy Mary / Claude Mckay -- His last day / Chester Himes -- A summer tragedy / Arna Bontemps -- Barrel staves / Arna Bontemps -- Why, you reckon / Langston Hughes -- Spanish blood / Langston Hughes -- John Archer's nose / Rudolph Fisher -- Mob madness / Marion Vera Cuthbert -- Gesture / Georgia Douglas Johnson -- Pope Pius the only / Richard Bruce Nugent -- Silt / Richard Wright -- The return of a modern prodigal / Octavia B. Wynbush -- Hate is nothing / Marita Bonner -- The whipping / Marita Bonner -- A modern fable / Chester Himes -- A matter of record / Ted Posten -- Girl, colored / Marian Minus.

Other Contributors:
Gable, Craig, 1967-

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0253343984 : Hardcover - University Press
0253216753


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Angel of Harlem: a novel based on the life of Dr. May Chinn
Kuwana Haulsey

Author: Haulsey, Kuwana, 1973-

Chronicles the odyssey of Dr. May Chinn from aspiring musician, through her struggles against racism to become a doctor, to her friendships with Langston Hughes and Zora Neale Hurston, to her accomplishments in 1920s New York City.

New York: One World/Ballantine Books, 2004, 340 p.

Publishers Weekly Review: May Edward Chinn (1896–1980), the first black female doctor in New York City, is the inspiration for Haulsey's (TheRed Moon) stirring second novel. May's mother, Lulu, makes tremendous sacrifices for her talented daughter, working to send May to the best schools and to secure a piano for May to explore her musical talent. A high school pregnancy is a hurdle, but Lulu arranges for the baby's informal adoption, and May aces the entrance examination for Columbia's Teacher's College. When a racist professor forces her away from music, she turns to science, doggedly continuing through medical school despite setbacks and discouragement, earning the grudging respect of her colleagues, the gratitude of her patients and the attention of a series of suitors. After she completes an internship at Harlem Hospital (the first black woman to do so), she works in a sanatorium before eventually opening her own practice. The novel is faithful to the known details of Chinn's life, and the vibrancy of 1920s Harlem shines through in Chinn's fictitious encounters with prominent historical figures of the time, from Zora Neale Hurston and Langston Hughes to Jean Toomer, Fats Waller and Wallace Thurman. Haulsey's respectful homage to Chinn and her accomplishments will bring overdue attention to this notable figure in African-American history. Agent, Eileen Cope at Lowenstein/Yost Associates. (Sept. 28)
— Staff (Reviewed September 6, 2004) (Publishers Weekly, vol 251, issue 36, p46)



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Novel based on the life of Dr. May Chinn


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0375508708 : Hardcover
0375761330 : Paperback


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• Booklist, published by the American Library Association
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• TID: 131382

New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, copyright 1993, 277 p.

Reviews for this Title:
Kirkus Reviews Fourteen black women write of racism and exploitation, passing southern folkways, social and color discrimination within the black community, and love and corruption among upper-class whites--all in styles that range from romantic melodrama to social realism, irony to broad humor. Many of the 28 stories here--written during the flowering of black literary culture in the 20's and 30's and most published originally in African-American magazines (The Crisis, Opportunity, etc.)--have never before been reprinted. For those who know Harlem Renaissance names like Jessie Redmon Fauset and Nella Larsen without having found examples of their work, Knopf's anthology provides a convenient introduction, although--perhaps typical for magazine fiction--many of the pieces are less valuable as literature than for what they reveal about the cultural context. Dorothy West writes affectingly of family situations impinged upon by racial issues. In Marita Bonner's more tragic vision, the narrator of "One Boy's Story" plays out a bloody, mythic drama. Leila Amos Pendleton's uneducated protagonist insists Socrates ("Sockertees") and Cleopatra ("Clea Patrick") were black; in spite of the Afrocentric vision, her dialect stories would probably not pass muster today. The "wonder-quality of her soul" can't stop Angelina Weld Grimkª's tragic Agnes from a desperate act of violence. Zora Neale Hurston's "John Redding Goes to Sea," written while Hurston was an undergraduate at Howard, confirms her critical standing by showing her youthful skill and talent. Editor Knopf (Univ. of Wisconsin) also provides historical background, brief bios for 11 authors; her discussion of the fiction rarely goes beyond summary and sometimes reveals surprise endings. Not always a great read, but the only anthology of its kind.
(Kirkus Reviews, March 1, 1993)



Other Contributors:
Knopf, Marcy, 1969-: editor; McKay, Nellie Y.

Other titles associated with this book:
Harlem renaissance stories by women
Women's Harlem Renaissance stories


ISBNs Associated with this Title:
0813519446 : Hardcover - University Press


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Home to Harlem
by Claude McKay ; foreword by Wayne F. Cooper

Author: McKay, Claude, 1890-1948

Boston: Northeastern University Press, 1987, c1928, xxvi, 340 p
ISBNs Associated with this Title:
1555530230
1555530249
1874509980 : Paperback
0911860274 : Hardcover


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Here in Harlem: poems in many voices
by Walter Dean Myers

Author: Myers, Walter Dean, 1937-

Acclaimed writer Walter Dean Myers celebrates the people of Harlem with these powerful and soulful first-person poems in the voices of the residents who make up the legendary neighborhood: basketball players, teachers, mail carriers, jazz artists, maids,veterans, nannies, students, and more. Exhilarating and electric, these poems capture the energy and resilience of a neighborhood and a people.

New York: Holiday House, 2004, 88 p.

Reviews for this Title:
Kirkus Reviews /* Starred Review */ In this Whitman-esque ode to time and the city, the "crazy quilt patterns" of Harlem are reflected in the voices of the neighborhood's "big-time people and its struggling folk," of little girls and blind old veterans, poets and mechanics, boxers and nannies, ballplayers and blues singers, laborers and jazz artists. Echoes of Cullen, Hughes, and Hurston, Baldwin, Wright, and DuBois, Marcus, Malcolm, and Martin, Booker T., Van Der Zee, and the Duke reverberate in this chorus of voices, modeled on Edgar Lee Masters's Spoon River Anthology. The volume celebrates the varied music of the neighborhood—plaintive, joyful, expansive, sly, and bluesy—and photographs from the author's collection offer a superb visual complement. One of Myers's best—and that's saying a lot. Sure to be a classic. (Poetry. 12+)
(Kirkus Reviews, November 15, 2004)



Features about this author or title:

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1. Annotated Book List - A Place Within Myself: Walter Dean Myers and the Fiction of Harlem Youth

2. Awards (Best Fiction) - Children's -> Best Fiction -> Literary -> ALA Notable Children's Books -> 2005 -> Older Readers Category

3. Awards (Best Fiction) - Young Adult -> Best Fiction -> Literary -> YALSA Best Books for Young Adults -> 2005


Author Web Sites:
1. About Walter Dean Myers : Features author-supplied biographical information and an interview.


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0823418537 : Hardcover - Juvenile


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Best short stories by Negro writers, The: an anthology from 1899 to the present

Author: Various Authors

Other Contributors: Hughes, Langston, 1902-1967: editor

Boston,: Little, Brown, [1967], xvii, 508 p.
Notes:
Later edition published as: The Best Short Stories by Black Writers (Boston: Back Bay Books)


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The Best short stories by Black writers



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Lift every voice and sing: a pictorial tribute to the Negro National Anthem
by James Weldon Johnson

Author: Johnson, James Weldon, 1871-1938

Twenty-two black-and-white photographs accompany this version of the song that has come to be considered the African American national anthem.

New York: Jum at the Sun/Hyperion Books for Children, 2000, [32] p.

Publishers Weekly Review: In honor of this song's centennial anniversary, this volume collects 22 often stirring black-and-white archival photographs to illustrate Johnson's powerful lyrics, set to music by his brother, John Rosamond Johnson. Smith's rather spotty introduction offers a brief biographical sketch of the siblings and outlines the genesis of the song (though it is the back jacket flap that suggests that James W. Johnson was asked by the Florida high school where he served as principal to compose the song for a celebration of Abraham Lincoln's birthday). Two decades later, in 1920, the NAACP proclaimed the composition "The Negro National Anthem." Crisply reproduced photographs ranging from the sobering to the uplifting correspond to the words of the anthem. "Out from the gloomy past,/ Till now we stand at last/ Where the white gleam/ of our bright star is cast" shows an enchanting toddler girl in a white wool coat and matching hat holding hands with two adults among a crowd. A photograph of Martin Luther King Jr.'s "I Have a Dream" speech is paired with "Lest our feet stray from the places,/ Our God, where we met Thee.... " Other memorable shots include the scarred back of a captive man ("Stony the road we trod,/ Bitter the chastening rod"), an exhausted boy cotton-picker asleep in the fields and a girl learning to read. Unfortunately, though the photos are credited, they neither include the year nor the context in which they were taken. The melody line concludes the book, and the many children featured in the photographs will draw a young audience into this affecting volume. All ages. (Jan.) Copyright 2000 Cahners Business Information.

Kirkus Reviews Celebrating the centenary of the song frequently dubbed "The Negro National Anthem," this matches those stirring lyrics to equally heartfelt black-and-white photos. Ranging from family groups, choirs, and crowds to a whip-scarred back, wrinkled hands and a tear-streaked cheek. Included are civil-rights marchers, cotton pickers, portraits formal and candid, the famous, and the unknown. The photographs are so well chosen and so thoughtfully laid out that it's a shame more recognition is not given to the book's designer. Introduced with a personal and historical note by Henrietta M. Smith, capped by James Weldon Johnson's brother's simple musical arrangement, it's a fitting tribute to a long struggle. Read it—better yet, sing it—to children, and let them pore over the powerful pictures. (musical notation, photo credits) (Picture book. 6+)
(Kirkus Reviews, November 15, 2000)



Other Contributors:
Johnson, John Rosamond, 1873-1954

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Lift every voice & sing
Lift ev'ry voice and sing
Pictorial tribute to the Negro National Anthem


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0786806265 : Hardcover - Juvenile
0786825421
0802782507 : Hardcover - Juvenile
014118387X : Paperback
0802774423 : Paperback
0802782515 : Library binding - Juvenile
0606087990 : DEMCO Turtleback
9997483197 : Hardcover - Juvenile
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Conquest, The: the story of a Negro pioneer
Introduction by Leathern Dorsey

Author: Micheaux, Oscar, 1884-1951

Lincoln, NE: Bison Books, copyright 1994, 311 p.
Notes:
Originally published in 1913


Other Contributors:
Dorsey, Leathern

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0803282095 : Paperback - University Press
0743460588 : Paperback
0836986326 : Hardcover - Reference
0585266352 : E-Book


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Journal of Biddy Owens, The: the Negro leagues
by Walter Dean Myers

Author: Myers, Walter Dean, 1937-

Teenager Biddy Owens' 1948 journal about working for the Birmingham Black Barons includes the games and the players, racism the team faces from New Orleans to Chicago, and his family's resistance to his becoming a professional baseball player. Includes a historical note about the evolution of the Negro Leagues.

New York: Scholastic, 2001, 141 p.

Gr. 5-7. In this fictional journal, part of the My Name Is America series, 17-year-old Biddy Owens tells of his year as “equipment manager, scorekeeper, errand boy, and sometimes right fielder” for the Birmingham Black Barons. The year is 1948, the last year of the Negro Leagues, and the book offers not just one boy’s experiences and growth but also an appreciation of the trials and triumphs of black ballplayers, particularly in the South. Biddy’s episodic story takes readers from his home, where economic troubles strain relations, to the road, where a remark like “We don’t serve no nigras here” is commonplace to the ballparks of America, in which the playing field is generally level (if a little rocky). The book has two other notable aspects. First, the writing is infused with a love of baseball that is never sappy. And second, this novel clearly portrays the ongoing racial prejudice of the era without making that the focus of the story. A very readable addition to the series.

(Reviewed February 1, 2001) -- Carolyn Phelan

School Library Journal Review: Gr 5 Up–Myers writes in the voice of the 17-year-old equipment manager for the 1948 Birmingham Black Barons baseball team. Through Biddy's journal, readers are introduced not only to the last great year of the Negro Leagues, but also to the institutional racism and blatant bigotry that existed in mid-20th-century America. The teen documents the action of the games, records the jokes and discussions that take place on the long bus rides to distant ball parks, complains about his younger sister, and writes about his hopes and desires for the future. A sometimes right fielder, he realizes that he will never be a great player and turns his dreams to attending college and becoming a journalist or sports writer. Intertwined with detailed descriptions of hits, runs, wins, and losses, Biddy describes his anger at not being served at a five-and-dime lunch counter and his yearning to stand up for his rights. Myers refers to actual players of the time: everyone talks about Jackie Robinson and Satchel Paige; Willie Mays is a member of the Birmingham Black Barons; and Biddy meets Hank Aaron, who plays for the Indiana Clowns. A final section includes a fictional epilogue, a historical note, black-and-white photos, and information about the author. Direct readers who want more information to Patricia McKissack's Black Diamond: The Story of the Negro Baseball League (Scholastic, 1994).–Shawn Brommer, South Central Library System, Madison, WI (Reviewed April 1, 2001) (School Library Journal, vol 47, issue 4, p146)

Kirkus Reviews Biddy Owens, 17, "equipment manager, scorekeeper, errand boy, and sometimes right fielder" for the Birmingham Black Barons, narrates in diary form the twilight time of the Negro Leagues. This solid entry in the "My Name Is America" series must cover a lot of ground—Jim Crow laws, the beginnings of civil-rights unrest, the integration of the major leagues, adolescent yearnings (soft-pedaled), and baseball, baseball, baseball—but Myers (Bad Boy, above, etc.) handles it all with relative ease. There is rather more exposition of life in the South than would likely have appeared in a contemporary journal, but this is not too intrusive and is quickly overshadowed by Biddy's agreeable voice as he weighs a baseball career (unlikely, given his admittedly limited ability) against going to college. Biddy's family comes to life as honestly as the historical figures he works with on a day-to-day basis. Baseball legends Satchel Paige, Willie Mays, and Hank Aaron all make cameo appearances, but the characters who dominate are those whose careers largely ended with the Negro Leagues: the 1948 Black Barons, led by second baseman and manager Piper Davis, whose fierce determination to win carries the team—and the reader—through a grueling pennant race to what was to become the last Negro League World Series. The tale is suffused with pride and affection for these first-class ballplayers who labored as second-class citizens, and with a real wistfulness at the passing of an era. Rich historical context, fully realized characters, great baseball action, and trademark Myers humor combine to make this one a homerun. (Fiction. 9-14)
(Kirkus Reviews, March 15, 2001)



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SURVEYS, HANDBOOKS, TREATISES
Patton, Sharon F. African-American Art. N6538.N5 P371 1998.

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Driskell, David C., ed. African American Aesthetics: a Postmodernist View.This collection builds on the pioneering work of Locke, Herring and Porter. African-American art is discussed in the context of American art, in illustrated scholarly essays.

Hooks, Bell. Art on My Mind: Visual Politics.

Vlach, John M. The Afro-American Tradition in Decorative Arts. Folio Originally published to accompany a major exhibition, this is a pioneering work on folk traditions.

Fine, Elsa Honig. The Afro-American Artist: a Search for Identity. This well-illustrated historical survey from the colonial period on, includes extensive notes and bibliography.

Atkinson, J. Edward. Black Dimensions in Contemporary American Art. A visual survey of 50 artists, with short introductory essays by Edward Spriggs, then Director of the Studio Museum in Harlem, and David Driskell.

Dover, Cedric. American Negro Art. A heavily illustrated survey from the colonial period to the 20th century. Artist and general index, selected portraits of artists, and bibliography. An important contribution following in the footsteps of Locke and Porter.

Porter, James A. Modern Negro Art.By the first African-American art historian, the "father of Black art history," this is the classic work on the subject, the "first to denote and define the African impulse in the visual arts in the U.S." Porter also arranged the first exhibition of contemporary African art in the U.S. (1951, Howard University). David Driskell's introduction to the 1992 edition is an important review of the development of African-American art history.

Locke, Alain. Negro Art: Past and Present. Locke was the "first major advocate, critic, patron, and writer on Afro-American art." His landmark work surveys the linkages of African-American art to the legacy of African art. For an excellent bibliography of Locke's publications see Note 18, p. 25 in Against the Odds listed on p. 4 of this bibliography.

Du Bois, W.E.B. The Negro American Artisan. Du Bois' huge body of work includes this important title, probably the first survey of African-American art. (See also the W.E.B. Du Bois WWW site in Internet Resources.)

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ENCYCLOPEDIAS AND DICTIONARIES

African-American Mosaic: a Library of Congress Resource Guide for the Study of Black History and Culture. Main Library Reference. An essential recent publication; see also the WWW Page listed under Internet Resources.

Encyclopedia of African-American Culture and History.Main Library Reference. This major 5-volume work includes entries on art collections in vol. 1, painting and sculpture in vol. 4, and many cross-references and biographies of figures such as James A. Porter.

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BIOGRAPHICAL REFERENCE WORKS
Part A. The following three titles should be consulted first:

Cederholm. Afro-American Artists: a Bio-Bibliographical Directory. The first major biographical dictionary of African-American artists, covering the colonial period to 1973. Includes exhibition catalogs; reviews; periodicals, including newspapers; and books. The A-Z entries include brief biographical information, lists of works and exhibitions, collections and reference sources for each artist. An essential work.

Igoe. 250 years of Afro-American Art: an Annotated Bibliography. A comprehensive work including 3900 artists covering three centuries. Generally, photographers, architects and designers are excluded. Basic, Artist, and Subject (topical and organizational) bibliographies, with appendices on anonymous artists and artist groups.

Thomison. The Black Artist in America: an Index to Reproductions.Listing Black artists from the colonial period to the present, this source is useful as a biographical work; it cites reproductions that have appeared in books, periodicals and catalogs through 1990, including most media as well as folk art. Selective subject index, bibliography, list of institutions, audiovisual materials and exhibition catalogs.

Part B.

ISBN 1878271385
11 x 11 inches (27.9 x 27.9 cm), Hardcover binding, 96 pages
150 b/w illus,
Out of print and out of stock (publication date 1/1/1992)
A PAPress publication; Carton quantity: 25
$22.95

Jack Travis has put together an elegant volume of essays, biographical sketches, and photographs of architectural work entitled African American Architects in Current Practice ... In black-and-white photos and drawings, he makes a clean edged presentation of the works of 35 African-American architects by what they do ... Supplementing the projects are short bios of the architects and an essay by each, all of which deepen the definition of the architects to who they are.
—Stephanie Stubbs, AIA Memo

"A long overdue book. Jack's edited monograph gives due recognition to the contribution of African Americans that have remained invisible. The book ... begins with introductory essays, followed by the practies that are profiled, and ending with summary information, including a chronology of landmark events, list of distinguished practitioners, and professional resources."
—Roberta Feldman, FAE

Commentaries by Vincent Scully, Dean Harry G. Robinson III, Sharon E. Sutton, Eugene Kohn, Harvey Gantt, and Michael Adams supplement the profiles of the architects. These distinguished educators and professionals provide a wideranging overview of the role of black Americans in the pratice and education of architecture.

Afro-American Folk Art and Crafts. . Covers quilters, sculptors, instrument-makers, basketmakers, builders, blacksmiths and potters from the colonial period. A lengthy bibliography, subject guide, filmography, and important essays such as Robert Farris Thompson's 1969 essay on African influences.

Black Artists on Art. This 2-volume work by Samella Lewis is an illustrated survey of several hundred contemporary (1969) African-American artists and Black artists working in the U.S. Includes artists' statements and brief biographical entries at the end of the volumes.

Black Photographers, 1840-1940: an Illustrated Bio-Bibliography. and An Illustrated Bio-Bibliography of Black Photographers, 1940-1988. . Deborah Willis-Thomas' groundbreaking companion volumes are heavily illustrated, with excellent bibliographies and exhibition chronologies. Short biographical entries include exhibitions and collections in which works are included, as well as a selected bibliography.

Directory of People of Color in the Visual Arts. 759 artists, art historians, critics and arts administrators are listed, with indexes by state, ethnicity and discipline.

Folk Artists Biographical Index. Ethnicity is indicated in the artist entries; since a large proportion of folk artists are African-American this is an important source.

Free Within Ourselves: African-American Artists in the Collection of the National Museum of American Art. While not a biographical work per se, this serves as a reference work, a cross-section of 31 artists from one of the largest and most comprehensive collections of African-American art (including the work of self-taught artists) from the colonial to contemporary period. Many illustrations, excellent bibliography of archival resources, books, exhibition catalogs, and articles, and a list of the African-American artists represented in the NMAA (105 as of 1992) which are searchable online (see Inventory of American Painting in the Internet section).

Twentieth-Century African-American Writers and Artists. An A-Z work which includes about 80 "prominent" painters and sculptors (i.e. who have exhibited in major museums.). Summary of artist's life, short critical note, exhibition and collections list and selected bibliography.

20th Century American Folk, Self-taught, and Outsider Art. Guide to the artists, organizations, publishers,museums, and listing by state. Bibliography of books, exhibition catalogs and articles. NB: Excludes decoys, quilts and pottery.

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INDEXES, BIBLIOGRAPHIES, AND LIBRARY CATALOGS

African-American Traditions in Song, Sermon, Tale, and Dance, 1600s-1920: an Annotated Bibliography of Literature, Collections, and Artworks.

*Art Abstracts (1984-present). Indexes about 300 journals in the visual arts; covering topices from architecture to video.

*Art Index Retrospective 1929-1984.

*Artbibliographies Modern (1974-present). Indexes articles, books, dissertations, and exhibition catalogs on twentieth-century art.

*Arts and Humanities Citation Index. A major index for the arts and humanities,covering a broad range of scholarly journals.

*BHA: Bibliography of the History of Art (1973-present, including RILA and RAA). The major scholarly resource for the history of art.

Catalog of the Library of the National Museum of African Art. Includes a number of citations under the heading African-American Art and it sub-headings.

Davis. Black Artists in the United States: an Annotated Bi