From the Book - 1st Anchor Books ed.
First Africans in North America
Early slave revolts: Report of Gov. Hunter on the New York Slave Conspiracy (1712)
African-Americans in the American Revolution
Testimony on Gabriel's Revolt (1800) ; Testimony on the Vesey Conspiracy (1822)
Founding of the African-American press: from Freedom's Journal (1827)
Convention movement, 1830-1864: Address...from the Colored National Convention of 1848
Declaration of the principles of the National Emigration Convention (1854)
from Clotel / William Wells Brown
Frances Ellen Watkins Harper
John Brown's raid at Harper's Ferry
Emancipation Proclamation
African-Americans in the Civil War
Folk culture & literature
Freedman's Bureau ; South Carolina Black Code ; Frederick Douglass's speech to the 32nd Annual Convention of the American Anti-Slavery Society ; Blanche K. Bruce's speech to the U.S. Senate ; Henry Turner's speech to the Georgia Legislature ; Petition from Kentucky citizens on Ku Klux Klan violence
Great migration, 1910-1920: from The Chicago defender
A. Philip Randolph and the March on Washington Movement (1942) ; Executive order 8802
Truman integrates the military: Executive order 9981 (1948)
Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka
Songs of the Civil Rights Movement
African-Americans in the Vietnam War
Clarence Thomas confirmation hearings
L.A. riots: Maxine Waters's testimony.
