Civil Rights and African Americans: A Documentary HistoryAlbert P. Blaustein, Robert L. Zangrando Northwestern University Press, 1991 - 671 pages This volume brings together for the first time all the important primary documents in the history of civil rights in the United States. Beginning in 1619, it contains original texts on slavery, abolition, the Civil War, Reconstruction, desegregation, the NAACP, and the black power movement. A thought-provoking preface provides an overview of the developments in civil rights law and public policy to the present day. Many of the documents included were previously scattered in hard-to-find sources, not readily available to instructors and students. Civil Rights and African Americans is the first collection of all the seminal texts of the civil rights struggle, an invaluable scholarly reference and riveting reading for anyone interested in the history of racial conflict in the United States. |
Contents
THE SOMERSET CASE | 36 |
National Periods17761820 | 41 |
ACT TO PROHIBIT THE IMPORTATION OF SLAVES | 53 |
VIRGINIA STATUTE ON SLAVES FREE NEGROES | 60 |
AMERICAN COLONIZATION SOCIETY MEMORIAL | 69 |
Expansion and the AntiSlavery Con | 75 |
NAT TURNERS INSURRECTION AND CONFESSION | 94 |
CALHOUNS RESOLUTIONS | 100 |
MARCUS GARVEY EXTOLS BLACK NATIONALISM | 343 |
THE GAVAGAN ANTILYNCHING BILL | 350 |
TICES COMMITTEE | 356 |
PRESIDENT TRUMANS CIVIL RIGHTS PROGRAM | 372 |
INTEGRATION IN THE ARMED SERVICES | 384 |
TEXAS WHITE PRIMARY CASES | 395 |
SCHOOL SEGREGATION CASES | 414 |
REACTIONS TO BROWN V BOARD OF EDUCATION | 447 |
BOSTON | 110 |
WILMOT PROVISO | 123 |
TEACHING NEGROES TO READ | 134 |
THE DRED SCOTT CASE | 146 |
18611883 | 180 |
FEDERAL CONFISCATION ACTS | 186 |
EMANCIPATION PROCLAMATIONA WARTIME | 196 |
JEFFERSON DAVIS ON THE NEGRO IN WARTIME | 202 |
THE THIRTEENTH AMENDMENT | 209 |
SOUTHERN BLACK CODES | 217 |
THE FOURTEENTH AMENDMENT | 225 |
THE FIFTEENTH AMENDMENT | 234 |
SENATOR BLANCHE K BRUCE ON THE MISSISSIPPI | 244 |
DECUIR | 258 |
THE CIVIL RIGHTS CASES | 268 |
National Growth and the Era of | 283 |
NEW YORKS CIVIL RIGHTS | 293 |
THE LOUISIANA CONSTITUTION | 311 |
Emergence of Negro Protest | 323 |
THE LITTLE ROCK CRISIS | 453 |
Civil Rights and the Congressional | 469 |
THE CIVIL RIGHTS ACT 1960 | 478 |
BUTTON | 488 |
FREEDOM TO THE FREEREPORT OF THE UNITED | 496 |
THE SITIN CASES | 509 |
THE ANTIPOLL TAX AMENDMENT | 523 |
EQUALITY IN ACCOMMODATIONS | 551 |
PRESIDENT JOHNSONS COMMENCEMENT ADDRESS | 558 |
SOUTH CAROLINA V KATZENBACH | 572 |
UNITED STATES V PRICE | 582 |
SCHOOL DESEGREGATION GUIDELINES | 590 |
BLACK POWER | 598 |
RACIAL ISOLATION IN THE PUBLIC SCHOOLS | 605 |
U S RIOT COMMISSION REPORTOFFICIAL SUM | 617 |
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