Crossing the danger water : three hundred years of African-American writing / edited and with an introduction by Deirdre Mullane

Object Details

Author

Mullane, Deirdre

Contents

The first Africans in North America -- Olaudah Equiano -- Early slave revolts -- Lucy Terry -- Jupiter Hammon -- African Americans in the American Revolution -- Phillis Wheatley -- Benjamin Banneker -- Slave revolts -- The founding of the African American press -- The colonization debate -- David Walker -- Nat Turner -- George Moses Horton -- The Amistad case -- The convention movement, 1830-1864 -- Henry Highland Garnett -- Martin Delany -- The case of Dred Scott -- Frederick Douglass -- Harriet Ann Jacobs -- William Wells Brown -- Harriet E. Wilson -- Sojourner Truth -- Harriet Tubman -- Frances Ellen Watkins Harper -- John Brown's raid at Harpers Ferry -- Emancipation Proclamation -- The New York draft riots -- Henry Highland Garnet -- African Americans in the Civil War -- Folk culture and literature -- Spirituals -- The Civil War amendments -- Reconstruction -- The exodusters -- Charles W. Chesnutt -- Paul Laurence Dunbar -- Booker T. Washington -- W.E.B. Du Bois -- Ida Wells-Barnett -- Mary Church Terrell -- Anna Julia Cooper -- Plessy v. Ferguson -- The Niagara movement -- The founding of the NAACP -- Jack Johnson -- James Weldon Johnson -- The great migration, 1910-1920 -- Red summer of 1919 -- Marcus Garvey -- Alain Locke -- Claude McKay -- Langston Hughes -- Jean Toomer -- Countee Cullen -- Zora Neale Hurston -- The Scottsboro cases -- Joe Louis -- Sterling Brown -- Robert Hayden -- Richard Wright -- A. Philip Randolph and the March on Washington movement -- Truman integrates the military -- Paul Robeson -- Gwendolyn Brooks -- Ralph Ellison -- James Baldwin -- Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka -- Martin Luther King, Jr. -- Songs of the Civil Rights Movement -- Kwanzaa -- Malcolm X -- Eldridge Cleaver -- The Black Panther Party -- Amiri Baraka -- The Kerner Commission -- African Americans in the Vietnam War -- Maya Angelou -- Alice Walker -- Jesse Jackson -- Rap music -- The Clarence Thomas confirmation hearings -- The L.A. riots

Summary

The history of African Americans is explored in their writings, narratives, letters, editorials, speeches, lyrics, & folktales, from U.S. colonial times to today. Here is the most comprehensive collection of African-American writing to date and includes poetry, prose, speeches, songs, documents, and letters from the pre-Colonial era through today's best and most well-known writers. An anthology that anyone interested in the full scope of African-American history should not be without. The history of African-American life and thought presented in this anthology represents a far-reaching written and oral tradition, which is thought-provoking, inspiring, and impressive in its breadth. It includes poetry and prose by today's best and most well-known writers.

1993

Type

Literary collections

History

Physical description

xxii, 769 pages ; 24 cm

Smithsonian Libraries

Topic

American literature--African American authors

African Americans

African Americans--History

Record ID

siris_sil_1075326

Metadata Usage (text)

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