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Military -- The Negro as an Army Officer, Christian Register, August 18, 1898, pp. 933-934 -- From Spade to Sword, Christian Register, February 23, 1899, pp. 207-208 -- Speeches -- Our Political Status, a speech delivered on April 29, 1884, at the Colored Men's Inter-state Conference, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and printed at Xenia, Ohio, by Torchlight Job Rooms -- Why I Am a Republican, a speech delivered at the Lincoln Club of Columbus, Ohio, and printed in the Detroit Plaindealer, August 3, 1888 -- The Party of Freedom and the Freedman-A Reciprocal Duty, a speech delivered on February 11, 1899, at the Lincoln Day Banquet, Dayton, Ohio, and printed in Masterpieces of Negro Eloquence, edited by Alice Dunbar (New York: Bookery Publishing, 1914) -- The Negro Graduate-His Mission, a commencement address printed in the Atlanta University Bulletin, June 1908 -- Journalism -- Journalism and Colored Journalists, People's Advocate, November 12, 1881 -- Journalism and Colored Journalists, No. II, People's Advocate, November 26, 1881 -- Journalism and Colored Journalists, No. III, People's Advocate, February 4, 1882 -- Preface to William S. Scarborough, First Lessons in Greek (New York: A. S. Barnes, 1881), pp. iii-v -- Introduction to Wesley J. Gaines, African Methodism in the South, or Twenty-Five Years of Freedom (Atlanta: Franklin, 1890), pp. ix-xi -- Introduction to James Monroe Gregory, Frederick Douglass, the Orator (Springfield, Mass.: Willey, 1893), pp. 5-12 -- Introduction to Benjamin Tucker Tanner, The Color of Solomon-What? (Philadelphia: A.M.E. Book Concern, 1895), pp. v-viii -- Introduction to J. M. Conner, Doctrines of Christ, or The Teachings of Jesus (Little Rock, Ark.: Printing Department of Shorter University, 1897), pp. viii-xiii -- Introduction to Horace Talbert, The Sons of Allen (Xenia, Ohio: Aldine Press, 1906), pp. vii-ix -- Review of Theophilus Gould Steward's My First Four Years in the Itineracy of the African Methodist Episcopal Church, in the Christian Recorder, December 13, 1877 -- Review of Daniel Payne's A Treatise on Domestic Education, in the Christian Recorder, August 27, 1885 -- Review of H. M. Turner's Genius and Theory of Methodist Polity, in the Christian Recorder, September 17, 1885 -- Hale on the Art of Reading Latin, in Education 8 (November 1887): 198-202 -- Review of Benjamin Tucker Tanner's Dispensations in the History of the Church, in the A.M.E. Church Review 16 (1900): 360-366 -- Review of Booker T. Washington's The Future of the American Negro, in Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Sciences 16 (November 1900): 145-147 -- Obituaries -- Bishop Payne as an Educator, Christian Recorder, January 25, 1894 -- Obituary of William Hayes Ward, Independent, September 11, 1916 -- Prof. Richard T. Greener: His Commendable Career and Claims to Recognition, Christian Recorder, February 9, 1882 -- Hon. Frederick Douglass: One of the Most Distinguished and Honored Citizens on the American Continent, Cleveland Gazette, March 20, 1886 -- Henry Ossian Tanner, Southern Workman 31 (December 1902): 661-670 -- Alexandre Dumas, Southern Workman 32 (July 1903): 313-317 -- Alexander Sergeivitch Pushkin, Part I, Southern Workman 33 (March 1904): 162-165 -- Alexander Sergeivitch Pushkin, Part II, Southern Workman 33 (April 1904): 234-236 -- Roosevelt: The Man, the Patriot, the Statesman, Voice of the Negro 1, no. 9 (1904): 391-393 -- Daniel Alexander Payne, Southern Workman 33 (December 1904): 683-688 -- The Poet Laureate of the Negro Race, A.M.E. Church Review 31 (1914): 135-143 -- Warren G. Harding: A Brand New President with the Old-Fashioned Belief "All Men Up and No Man Down," Competitor 3 (1921): 7-8 -- Travel Narratives -- Vacation Notes: The Cesnola Collection, Christian Recorder, August 29, 1878 -- Summer Saunterings, No. II, Christian Recorder, September 9, 1886 -- Summer Saunterings, No. III, Christian Recorder, September 16, 1886 -- Summer Saunterings, No. IV, Christian Recorder, September 23, 1886 -- Summer Saunterings, Concluded, Christian Recorder, October 21, 1886 -- Education in General -- The Utility of Studying the Greek, part 1, Christian Recorder, April 12, 1883 -- The Utility of Studying the Greek, part 2, Christian Recorder, August 2, 1883 -- The True Aim of Education, Southern Teachers' Advocate 1, no. 2 (September 1905): 1-5 -- Personal Influence: The President's Opening Address, Sodalian 8, no. 1 (October 1913): 1-6 -- What Should Be the Standard of the University, College, Normal School, Teacher Training and Secondary Schools (Durham, N.C.: National Training School, 1916) -- Education of Blacks -- Echoes from the South, Christian Recorder, June 29, 1876 -- Our Schools and Their Needs, Christian Recorder, March 23, 1882 -- The New South and Hampton's Part in It, Southern Workman 25 (October 1896): 194-195 -- The Negro and the Trades, Southern Workman 26 (February 1897): 26-27 -- The American Negro Academy, Leslie's Weekly 22 (1897): 264 -- The Educated Negro and Menial Pursuits, Forum 26 (December 1898): 434-440 -- Booker T. Washington and His Work, Education 20 (January 1900): 270-276 -- The Negro and Higher Learning, Forum 33 (1902): 349-355 -- The Educated Negro and His Mission (Washington, D.C.: American Negro Academy, 1903), Occasional Paper no. 8, pp. 3-11 -- The Relation of the Teacher to the Moral and Social Elevation of the Race, Hampton Institute Publications 8 (July 1904): 79-83 -- Howard University's Semi-Centennial, Independent, March 19, 1917, p. 505 -- Philology in General -- The Negro Element in Fiction, summary, Transactions of the American Philological Association 21 (July 1890): xlii-xliv -- Function and Future of Foreign Languages in Africa, Methodist Review 76 (November-December 1894): 890-899 -- Notes on the Function of Modern Languages in Africa, summary, Transactions of the American Philological Association 27 (July 1896): xlvi-xlviii -- Creole Folk-Tale: Compair Bouki and Compair Lapin, Southern Workman 25 (September 1896): 186 -- Folklore and Ethnology: Old Saws, Southern Workman 25 (October 1896): 206 -- Negro Folk-lore and Dialect, Arena 15 (January 1897): 186-192 -- Iphigenia in Euripides and Racine, summary, Transactions of the American Philological Association 29 (July 1898): lviii-lx -- The Negro in Fiction as Portrayer and Portrayed, Southern Workman 28 (September 1899): 358-361 -- Iphigenia in Euripides, Racine, and Goethe, summary, Transactions of the American Philological Association 32 (July 1901): xxxvii-xxxviii -- Classical Philology -- The Theory and Function of the Thematic Vowel in the Greek Verb, summary, Transactions of the American Philological Association 15 (July 1884): vi -- On Fatalism in Homer and Virgil, A.M.E. Church Review 2 (1886): 132-138 -- Grote on Thuc. vi. 17 [Characters not reproducible], summary, Transactions of the American Philological Association 18 (July 1887): v-vi -- Ancipiti in Caesar, B. G. I. 26, summary, Transactions of the American Philological Association 18 (July 1887): xxxviii -- Xenophon or Andocides,-Which? Journal of Education 27 (May 17, 1888): 311 -- Observations on the Fourth Eclogue of Vergil, summary, Transactions of the American Philological Association 19 (July 1888): xxxvi-xxxviii -- Xenophon, Andocides, Cebes,-Which? Journal of Education 28 (September 20, 1888): 223 -- "Ancipiti": Caesar's De Bello Gallico, Book I., Chapter XXVI., Line 1., Education 9 (December 1888): 263-268 -- On the Accent and Meaning of Arbutus, Education 9 (February 1889): 396-398 -- Observations on the Fourth Eclogue of Virgil, Education 10 (September 1889): 28-33 -- Bellerophon's Letters, Iliad VI. 168 ff., summary, Transactions of the American Philological Association 22 (July 1891): 1-liii -- On Grote's Interpretation of [Characters not reproducible], Education 12 (January 1892): 286-293 -- Hunc Inventum Inveni (Plautus, Captivi, 442), summary, Transactions of the American Philological Association 24 (July 1893): xvi-xix -- The Chronological Order of Plato's Writings, Education 14 (December 1893): 213-218 -- Cena, [Characters not reproducible], prandium, [Characters not reproducible], summary, Transactions of the American Philological Association 25 (July 1894): xxiii-xxv -- Extracts from Thucydides with Brief Notes, VII. 7, 1; VII. 8, 2; VIII. 29, 2, summary, Transactions of the American Philological Association 30 (July 1899): vii-ix -- Brief Notes on Thucydides, summary, Transactions of the American Philological Association 32 (July 1901): lxxix -- Notes on the Meaning and Use of [Characters not reproducible] and [Characters not reproducible] in Demosthenes, De Corona, 46, summary, Transactions of the American Philological Association 33 (July 1902): xx -- Notes on Andocides and the Authorship of the Oration against Alcibiades, summary, Transactions of the American Philological Association 34 (July 1903): xli -- Notes on Thucydides, summary, Transactions of the American Philological Association 37 (January 1907): xxx-xxxi -- The Greeks and Suicide, summary, Transactions of the American Philological Association 38 (December 1907): xxii-xxiii -- Politics, Policy, and Prejudice -- A Nationality, Christian Recorder, April 13, 1876 -- The Exodus-A Suicidal Scheme-The Machinations of Disappointed Office Seekers, Christian Recorder, January 3, 1878 -- The Civil Status of the Southern Negro, People's Advocate, September 11, 1880 -- The Claims of the Colored Citizen upon the Republican Party, Christian Recorder, June 23, 1881 --
Durham, North Carolina : Duke University Press, 2021.
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Setting the Scene -- The Jazz Age -- Midcentury Icons -- Vernacular Counterculture -- After the Revolution -- New Voices, New Methods -- Topics in Progress.
Funeral Oration -- On His Condemnation to Death -- On the Union of Greece to Resist Persia -- On the Crown -- The Second Oration Against Philip -- In Support of the Oppian Law -- To His Soldiers -- First Oration Against Catiline -- The Fourth Philippic -- To the Conspirators -- To His Troops -- On the Treatment of the Conspirators -- The Catilinarian Conspirators -- Oration on the Dead Body of Julius Caesar. -- A Second Crusade -- Sermon to the Birds -- Before the Diet of Worms -- On Suffering Persecution -- Before Invading Silesia, 1740 -- Before the Battle of Leuthen, 1757 -- Advocating the Execution of Louis XVI -- Agaist the Charge of Treason -- "To Dare again, Ever to Dare!" -- "Let France Be Free!" -- Defense Against the Charges -- The Festival of the Supreme Being -- At the Beginning of the Italian Campaign -- On Entering Milan -- On Beginning the Russian Campaign -- Farewell to the Old Guard -- Against Imperialism -- Voltaire -- To the Young Men of Italy -- To His Soldiers -- Rome and Italy -- America's Welcome -- To the Delegates from Alsace -- Appeal for Dreyfus -- Christian Democracy -- War and Armaments in Europe -- Germany and the War -- Address to the German People -- Last Speech -- The Spirit of France -- Coronation Day Sermon -- One Aim: Victory -- To Workingmen and Soldiers -- To the Red Army -- The Dictatorship of the Proletariat -- Napoleon -- Naval Disarmament. -- On the Dissolution of Parliament -- On a Moriton for His Removal -- God's Love to Fallen Man -- On the right of Taxing America -- Conciliation with America -- Indictment of Warren Hastings -- At the Trial of Warren Hastings -- On His Refusal to Negotiate with Bonaparte -- On Refusal to Negotiate with Bonaparte -- The Fall of Napoleon -- On the Reform Bill -- The Effects of Protection on Agriculture -- The "Trent" Affair -- Peace with Honor -- On Domestic and Foreign Affairs -- Anti-Semitism -- The British Empire -- Militant Suffragists -- England's Position -- An Appeal to the Nation -- The Fourth of July -- Peace -- Women in Politics -- On His Seventieth Birthday -- Justice for Ireland -- Protest Against Sentence as Traitor -- The Home Rule Bill -- The Irish Free State. -- Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God -- The Boston Massacre -- "Give Me Liberty, or Give Me Death!"-- American Independence -- On the Faults of the Constitution -- The States and the Federal Government -- Justice and the Federal Constitution -- The Federal Constitution -- Inaugural Address -- Farewell Address -- First Inaugural Address -- Alexander Hamilton -- Red Jacket -- Tecumseh -- Adams and Jefferson -- Reply to Hayne -- Second Inaugural Address -- The Murder of Lovejoy -- The Preservation of the Union -- Slavery -- On the Compromise of 1850 -- The Crime Against Kansas -- The Irrepressible Conflict -- On being Sentenced to Death -- On the Death of John Brown -- Reply to Lincoln -- On Withdrawal from the Union -- On His Nomination to the Senate -- Farewell Address at Springfield -- Address at Gettysburg -- Second Inaugural Address -- The System of Slavery -- On Woman's Right to Suffrage -- Blaine-The Plumed Knight -- Oration at His Brother's Grave -- On the Death of Garfield -- First Inaugural Address -- The Columbian Oration -- The American Standard -- The Cross of Gold -- The Republic That Never Retreats -- The Retention of the Philippines -- Address at Buffalo -- Manhood or Money -- The Strenuous Life -- Washington's Birthday -- Lincoln, Man and American -- Peace Without Victory -- Declaration of War -- The Fourteen Points -- The League of Nations -- The League of Nations -- On Receiving Sentence -- A Plea for the League of Nations -- "Live-I Am Coming!"
Origins / The white lion / Democracy / Daughters of azimuth / Loving me / Race / Conjured / A ghazalled sentence after "My people... Hold on" by Eddie Kendricks and the Negro Act of 1740 / Sugar / First to rise / Proof [dear Phillis] / Fear / Freedom is not for myself alone / Other persons / Dispossession / Trouble the water / Sold South / Capitalism / Fort Mose / Before his execution / Politics / We as people / A letter to Harriet Hayden / Citizenship / The camp / An absolute massacre / Self-defense / Like to the rushing of a mighty wind / No car for colored [+] ladies (or, miss wells goes off [on] the rails) / Punishment / Race riot / Greenwood / Inheritance / The new Negro / Bad blood / Medicine / 1955 / From behind the counter / Church / Youth Sunday / On "brevity" / Music / Quotidian / The panther is a virtual animal / Health care / Unbought, unbossed, unbothered / Crazy when you smile / Traffic / Rainbows aren't real, are they? / A surname to honor their mother / Progress / At the Superdome after the storm has passed / Mother and son / Justice / Progress report /
Origins / The white lion / Democracy / Daughters of azimuth / Loving me / Race / Conjured / A ghazalled sentence after "My people... Hold on" by Eddie Kendricks and the Negro Act of 1740 / Sugar / First to rise / Proof [dear Phillis] / Fear / Freedom is not for myself alone / Other persons / Dispossession / Trouble the water / Sold South / Capitalism / Fort Mose / Before his execution / Politics / We as people / A letter to Harriet Hayden / Citizenship / The camp / An absolute massacre / Self-defense / Like to the rushing of a mighty wind / No car for colored [+] ladies (or, miss wells goes off [on] the rails) / Punishment / Race riot / Greenwood / Inheritance / The new Negro / Bad blood / Medicine / 1955 / From behind the counter / Church / Youth Sunday / On "brevity" / Music / Quotidian / The panther is a virtual animal / Health care / Unbought, unbossed, unbothered / Crazy when you smile / Traffic / Rainbows aren't real, are they? / A surname to honor their mother / Progress / At the Superdome after the storm has passed / Mother and son / Justice / Progress report /
"All in green went my love riding" "in Just-/spring when the world is mud-" "Tumbling-hair/picker of buttercups" "Humanity i love you" "O sweet spontaneous" "stinging/gold swarms" "between green/mountains" "Babylon slim/-ness of" "ta/ppin/g/toe" "Buffalo Bill's/defunct" "the Cambridge ladies who live in furnished souls" "god pity me whom(god distinctly has)" "Dick Mid's large bluish face without eyebrows" "Spring is like a perhaps hand" Poem, or Beauty Hurts Mr. Vinal "she being Brand" "on the Madam's best april the" Memorabilia "next to of course god america i" "lis/-ten//you know what i mean when" "my sweet old etcetera" "Among/these/red pieces of" "in spite of everything" "since feeling is first" "i sing of Olaf glad and big" "twi-/is -Light bird" "a clown's smirk in the skull of a baboon" "somewhere i have never travelled, gladly beyond" "r-p-o-p-h-e-s-s-a-g-r" "the boys i mean are not refined" "as freedom is a breakfastfood" "anyone lived in a pretty how town" "my father moved through dooms of love" "plato told" "pity this busy monster, manunkind" "a grin without a" Proud Riders Europa Test Paper From the Green Book of Yfan Mater Dolorosa Words of an Old Woman Hasbrouck and the Rose Bill Gets Burned "On Brooklyn Bridge I saw a man drop dead" "I met in a merchant's place" "The shopgirls leave their work" "How shall we mourn you who are killed and wasted" "My work done, I lean on the window-sill" "In the shop, she, her mother, and grandmother" Idiot "She who worked patiently" Epidemic "Her work was to count linings--" "The house-wreckers have left the door and a staircase" Aphrodite Vrania April "Out of the hills the trees bulge" "How difficult for me is Hebrew" "I have learnt the Hebrew blessing before eating bread" "After I had worked all day at what I earn my living" "The Hebrew of your poets, Zion" "Though our thoughts often, we ourselves" "Among the heaps of brick and plaster lies" Epitaphs Millinery District ["The clouds ..."] "A dead gull in the road" "I like this secret walking" Rainy Season "Of course, we must die" My grandfather, dead long before I was born" "A grove of small trees, branches thick with berries" Millinery District ["Many fair hours ..."] Similes Epitaph Free Verse from Early History of a Writer Empty Bed Blues Everyday Alchemy Thirst To One Loved Wholly Within Wisdom To Mr. Maunder Maunder, Professional Poet To the Powers of Desolation To the Natural World: at 37 Try Tropic All Around the Town Bounding Line Hymn to Yellow Weed Fructus Reapers Cotton Song Georgia Dusk Nullo Evening Song Portrait in Georgia Seventh Street Storm Ending Her Lips Are Copper Wire Gum Gods Are Here This Amber Sunstream Axle Song Near House Midland So Simple Where I Saw the Snake First Poem Lamentations Winter Nocturne: Thea Hospital "To an Amiable Child" Creatures in the Zoo A Purplexicon of Dissynthegrations Ol' Man River Little Girl Blue Bewitched, Bothered and Bewildered Dead Man's Corner Epitaphs A House of the Eighties Omelet of A. MacLeish Newsreel LIII Waltz Against the Mountains Something Starting Over Noon I Can't Get Started They All Laughed Elegy for Melusine from the Intensive Care Ward Red-Headed Intern, Taking Notes Scene: A Bedside in the Witches' Kitchen Brother, Can You Spare a Dime? Insects A History of the Caesars Medusa Knowledge Women Alchemist My Voice Not Being Proud Men Loved Wholly Beyond Wisdom Sub Contra Cassandra Winter Swan Dark Summer Late Song Short Summary Roman Fountain Evening-Star Baroque Comment Kept Heard by a Girl Several Voices Out of a Cloud Musician Zone Night Morning Dragonfly Sermon Serenade Kiss Almost a God Long Distance Moan from Elegy in the Manner of a Requiem in Memory of D. H. Lawrence Waiter History of Education Slow Curtain Why Must You Know? Would You Think? Fish Food: An Obituary to Hart Crane Come Over and Help Us Anathema. Maranatha! In the Bathtub, to Mnemosyne Esprit d'Escalier Cross Questions from John Brown's Body American Names Cotton Mather Daniel Boone Metropolitan Nightmare Winter Tenement Ernest Vision Photoheliograph from Chorus for Survival Cage of Voices from Libretto for the Republic of Liberia from Harlem Gallery April Mortality Ghostly Tree Rounds and Garlands Done Moon and Spectator Fragmentary Stars Horn Figurehead Grapes Making Chaplinesque For the Marriage of Faustus and Helen Voyages Repose of Rivers Wine Menagerie At Melville's Tomb Bridge O Carib Isle! Broken Tower Take My Hand, Precious Lord Dumb Moment Fern Song Frog Song True Western Summer from The Indians in the Woods Girl Help Reader Winter Garden Helen Grown Old For the Father of Sandro Gulotta Ancient Ones: Betatakin Garden Note I, Los Altos Garden Note II, March from The Wild Party from Lolita On Translating "Eugene Onegin" Santo Domingo Corn Dance Mr. Pope Ode to the Confederate Dead Twelve Last Days of Alice Wolves Aeneas at Washington Ivory Tower Mediterranean Sonnets at Christmas Swimmers February Ground Walt Whitman Two Songs of Advent Magpie's Shadow Solitude of Glass October Vacant Lot Cold Nocturne Barnyard Wild Sunflower Realization Apollo and Daphne Fable Fall of Leaves Slow Pacific Swell To a Young Writer By the Road to the Sunnyvale Air-Base Elegy on a Young Airedale Bitch Lost Two Years Since in the Salt-Marsh On Teaching the Young Time and the Garden In Praise of California Wines To the Moon Long Gone Scotty Has His Say Sister Lou Southern Road Memphis Blues Ma Rainey Slim in Atlanta Children's Children Chillen Get Shoes Sporting Beasley Cabaret Old Lem A Broken View Onion Fields Earthworm Slow By Night Curse While I Slept Sound I Listened For As Easily As Trees Waxwings Pitcher Cypresses Swimmer Farm Boy After Summer Museum Vase Ordovician Fossil Algae Sounds
Richard Allen describes the founding of the African Methodist Episcopal Church, 1787-1816 / Bishop Daniel Alexander Payne reviews the contribution of the Negro church / Layman explains "why Negro churches are a necessity" / Free African Society of Philadelphia -- African Institution of Boston / First Negro paper: "too long have others spoke for us" / "To unite the colored people" / "Let us cherish a friendly union with ourselves" / Paul Cuffe call for the uplift of Africa -- James Forten expresses a deep concern about Africa -- "My soul cleaves to Africa" / Would-be emigrant: "we had rather be gone" / Colored National Convention of 1848 on "complexional" and White institutions -- "Our elevation as a race, is almost wholly dependent upon our own exertions" / Colored National Convention of 1853: " a national council of the colored people" -- Henry Highland Garnet calls for slave rebellions -- Alabama Negro businessman wants to go to Liberia / Black citizens of Cincinnati "seek a home where we may be free" / "People, to be free, must necessarily be their own rulers" / Continued advancement of the Negro nationality of the new world / Henry Highland Garnet describes the greatness of Africa -- "We must learn to love ourselves" / "What this race needs in this country is power" / "Need of ... scholarly men" to "lift up this people of ours" / Francis J. Grimkè urges Black teachers for Black schools -- "God is a Negro" / "We wanted to go to a territory by ourselves" / South Carolina exodus to Africa: "Africa is the only land that a colored man can say is his" / Bishop Henry M. Turner demands an indemnity "to go home to Africa" / "Prophetic liberator of the coloured race" demands an indemnity for a separate territory in the United States / Garvey Movement described: "up, you mighty race" / "Ethiopia shall once more see the day of her glory" / "We know our rights ... and have the courage to defend them" / "Negro can grow only .... in his own sphere, as God intended" / Booker T. Washington urges "cultivating ... faith in the race" -- Colored convention recommends Negro support for Negro business -- "Negroes should now begin to support Negroes" / Kansas City businessman urges Negroes to "patronize the colored man" / California newspaper looks at the national Negro Business League / On the conversation of races: "the Negro people as a race have contribution to make to civilization ... which no other race can make" / On support for Black business enterprise / On cooperation among Black consumers / On Pan-Africanism: "the divine right of suppressed ... peoples to ... be free" / On cultural nationalism: "let us train ourselves to see beauty in Black" / On Black separatism: "organize our economic and social power no matter how much segregation it involves" / E.A. Johnson urges the study of Afro-American history "for a new self-respect and confidence" / Arthur A. Schomburg advocates the creation of chairs of Negro history / "Negroes should not despise the rock from which they were hewn" / "Every race has a peculiar genius" / Negro spirituals are "the soul of the race made manifest" / "Forced attempt to build ... Americanism on race values" / "Before the Negro becomes one with the rest of the American people, he must become one with himself" / "Sing a song full of the faith that the dark past has taught us" / Chicago in the 1930s: "making jobs for the race" / New Negro alliance: "we must organize our purchasing power" / Benjamin J. Davis, Jr., argues the communist position: "the Negro people a nation" / Philip Randolph and the march on Washington movement: "oppressed people must assume the responsibility ... to free themselves" W.E.B. Du Bois emigrates to Africa: "Africa had come not up from hell, but from the sum of heaven's glory" / "What do the Muslims want" / "Separation of the so-called Negroes from their slavemasters' children is a must" / Minister Malcolm X enunciates the Muslim program / Organization of Afro-American unity: "for human rights and dignity" / "Black is coming back" / "We are on the move and our music is moving with us" / "We must create a national Black intelligentsia in order to survive" / "Organizing the Black community for the purpose of promoting the interests and concerns of the Black people" / "We are going to use the term 'Black Power' and we are going to define it because Black power speaks to us / Northwestern University Black students: "if our demands are impossible, then peace between us is impossible too" / African nationalist pioneer movement: "we advocate complete economic control by the Blacks of all African communities in America" / "Black business development with social commitment to Black communities / "My fight for freedom: Uhuru, Libertad, Halauga, and Harambee!" / "Revolutionary nationalism, Black nationalism, or just plain Blackism" / Republic of New Africa: "we are the government for the non-self-governing Blacks held captive within the United States" / "Final confrontation" / "Political power comes through the barrel of a gun" / Drum: "dare to fight! Dare to win!" /
Introduction / Bury me in a free land: 1770-1899 -- Lift every voice: 1900-1918 -- Dark tower: 1919-1936 -- Ballads of remembrance: 1936-1959 -- Ideas of ancestry: 1959-1975 -- Blue light sutras: 1976-1989 -- Praise songs for the day: 1990-2008 -- After the hurricane: 2009-2020
An approach to the evaluation of African societies / The rise of nationalist organizations and parties in British West Africa / African elite in Nigeria / Indigenous African religions / African survivals in the New World with special emphasis on the arts / The transcultural affinities of African Negro art / African sculpture: an aesthetic evaluation / Ba Kuba Art at the Brussels International Exposition / African dance / Tendencies in African poetry / The last laugh / The American Negro's view of Africa / Traditional NAACP interest in Africa (as reflected in the pages of The Crisis) / Forming African youth: a philosophy of education / Potential American Negro contributions to African social development / The United States and Africa: trade and investment / Public health problems of West Africa / Liberia, the league and the United States / Liberia, past and present / African studies programs in the United States / A bibliographical checklist of American Negro writers about Africa / The ASNLH, The Journal of Negro History, and American scholarly interest in Africa /
short story -- heoic slave / Frederick Douglasss -- sheriff children / Charles W. Chesnutt -- Blood-burning children / Jean Toomer -- Avey / Jean Toomer -- Miss Cynthie / Rudolph Fisher -- Fog / John F. Matheus -- Flyer / Cecil Blue -- From black warriors / George Schuyler -- Slave on the block / Langston Hughes -- making of mamma Harris / Ted Poston -- night's for cryin' / Chester Himes -- Bright and morning star / Richard Wright -- novel -- speculating in slaves / William Wells Brown -- Quadroon; Octoroon / William Wells Brown -- Conspiracy / Martin R. Delany -- storm breaks / Charles W. Chestnutt -- Camp meeting / James Weldon Johnson -- porter debates the senator / J. A. Rogers -- negro doctor in the south / Walter White -- Color-struck / Jessie Fauset -- treeing of the chef / Claude McKay -- Shine and Sheba / Rudolph Fisher -- Miss cramp and the function / Rudolph Fisher -- world-shaking discovery / George Schuyler -- Niggeratti manor / Wallace Thurman -- Guitar / Langston Hughes -- Dance / George W. Henderson -- Sharecropping / George E. Lee -- Hurricane / Zora Neale Hurston -- Conspirator / Arna Bontemps -- trail / Arna Bontemps -- Oystering / Arna Bontemps -- Steel mill rhythm / William Attaway -- Poetry -- To the Eael of Dartmouth / Phillis Wheatley -- His Excellency general Washington / Phillis Wheatley -- Liberty and peace / Phillis Wheatley -- To George Moses Horton, myself / George Moses Horton -- On liberty and slavery / George Moses Horton -- To Eliza / George Moses Horton -- America / James M. Whitfield -- Eliza Harris / Frances E. W. Harper -- slave auction / Frances E. W. Harper -- Bury me in a free land / Frances E. W. Harper -- Let the light enter / Frances E. W. Harper -- From Twasinta's Seminoles; or rape of florida / Alvery A. Whitman -- Ere sleep comes down / Paul Laurence Dunbar -- party / Paul Laurence Dunbar -- At candle-lighting time / Paul Laurence Dunbar -- Sympathy / Paul Laurence Dunbar -- We wear the mask / Paul Laurence Dunbar -- Forever / Paul Laurence Dunbar -- Robert Bould Shaw -- Harriet Beecher Stowe / Paul Laurence Dunbar -- somg / Paul Laurence Dunbar -- debt / Paul Laurence Dunbar -- Signs of the times / Paul Laurence Dunbar -- christmas folk song / Paul Laurence Dunbar -- Itching Heels / Paul Laurence Dunbar -- death song / Paul Laurence Dunbar -- Ol' doc' Hyar / James Edwin Campbell -- When ol' sis Judy pray / James Edwin Campbell -- watchers / W.S. Braithwaite -- Sandy Star / W.S. Braithwaite -- litany at Atlanta / W.E. B. DuBois -- O black and unknown bards / James Weldon Johnson -- Brothers / James Weldon Johnson -- Sence you went away / James Weldon Johnson -- prodigal son / James Weldon Johnson -- Go down death / James Weldon Johnson -- St. Peter relates an incident / James Weldon Johnson -- So quietly / Leslie Pinckney Hill -- Tuskegee / Leslie Pinckney Hill -- heart of a woman / Georgia Douglass -- suppliant / Johnson -- I closed my shutters fast last night / Johnson -- I want to die while you love me / Johnson -- Hushed by the hands of sleep / Angelina W. Grimike -- Surrender / Angelina W. Grimke -- When the green lies over the earth / Angelina W. Grimke -- winter twilight / Angelina W. Grimke -- tragedy of Pete / Joseph Seamon Cotter, Sr -- And what shall you say? / Joseph Seamon Cotter, Jr -- Rain music / Joseph Seamon Cotter, Jr -- Tired / Fenton Johnson -- scarlet woman / Fenton Johnson -- Baptism / Claude McKay -- America / Claude McKay -- White houses / Claude McKay.
Black unions (research document) -- Memorandum from E. E. Cleveland to General Conference and others, Jan 1968, about the history and work among the Blacks -- Eightieth anniversary, Louisville, Kentucky, Church (article, The North American Informant, 1970) -- The heart of the Lake Union / Memorandum from Bert Haloviak to Mrs. Hedwig Jemison, Apr 1978, about Negro Department and North American Colored Department -- Research regarding history of the General Conference Bulletin and Reports regarding the Blacks 1899 to 1970 -- Organization and development of regional conferences (1969) -- Bibliography (references)
Santa Barbara, California : ABC-CLIO, An imprint of ABC-CLIO, LLC, [2021]
9781440855566 hardcover
Introduction -- Chronology -- The new negro mecca : Harlem. "Harlem" / "The black city" / "The making of Harlem" / "The city of refuge" / "Harlem's nightlife" / "Amateur night in Harlem : 'That's why darkies were born'" / "When Harlem was in vogue" / The new negro : a new time, a new people. "Lift every voice and sing" / "A new negro for a new century" / "The souls of black folk" / "Possibilities of the negro : the advance guard of the race" / "Public opinion and the negro" / "The new negro faces America" / "Enter the new negro" / "Who is the new negro, and why?" / The new negro at war. "Plea of the negro soldier" / "Her thirteen black soldiers" / "Close ranks" / "Du Bois, one-time radical leader deserts and betrays cause of his race" / "A negro woman to her adopted soldier boy" / "The American negro in the World War" / "Returning soldiers" / "The colored soldier" / "Two Americans" / "The black draftee from Dixie" / The new negro on the move. "Bound for the promised land" / "Is migration a panacea?" / "How much is the migration a flight from persecution?" / "Cotton song" / "Northboun'" / "A summer tragedy" /
Were you there when they crucified my Lord? ; City called heaven ; God's a-gonna trouble the water ; Walk together children ; I know moon-rise ; I'm a-rollin' ; I been rebuked and I been scorned ; Didn't my Lord deliver Daniel? ; Soon I will be done ; No more auction block ; Swing low, sweet chariot ; Steal away to Jesus ; Go down, Moses ; Been in the storm so long ; Oh, freedom! -- This little light of mine ; Down by the riverside ; Freedom in the air ; Take my hand, precious Lord ; Peace be still ; Stand by me -- Yellow dog blues ; St. Louis blues ; Beale Street blues ; Down-hearted blues ; See, see rider ; Prove it on me blues ; Gulf Coast blues ; Trouble in mind ; Backwater blues ; In the house blues ; How long blues ; Hellhound on my trail ; It's a low down dirty shame ; Good morning, blues ; Sent for you yesterday ; Going to Chicago blues ; Fine and mellow ; Hoochie coochie ; Sunnyland.
For you there is no song Early in the mornin' ; A good assassination should be quiet ; Status symbol Minstrel man ; Dream variations ; I too The barrier ; Song without words Death of an old seaman Two songs for Julie Ju Cassandra's lullaby ; Love A charm at parting ; I loved you Absalom ; Nunc dimittis Riding to town Compensation If there be sorrow ; Marrow of my bone Chanson triste ; Sweet sorrow Weary blues Love let the wind cry...how I adore thee Faithful one ; Genius child A child's grace ; Melancholy Night ; Song to the dark virgin Velvet shoes Grief A death song ; I will lie down in autumn ; The Negro speaks of rivers Lament ; A red, red rose Wry fragments Dancing in the sun ; Soliloquy
Origins / The white lion / Democracy / Daughters of Azimuth / Loving me / Race / Conjured / A Ghazalled sentence after "My people hold on" by Eddie Kendricks and the Negro Act of 1760 / Sugar / First to rise / proof (dear Phillis) / Fear / Freedom is not for myself alone / Other persons / Dispossession / Trouble the water / Sold South / Capitalism / Fort Mose / Before his execution / Politics / A letter to Harriet Hayden / Citizenship / The camp / An absolute massacre / Self-defense / Like to the rushing of a mighty wind / no car for colored (+) ladies (or, miss wells goes off (on) the rails) / Punishment / Race riot / Inheritance / The new Negro / Bad blood / Medicine / 1955 / From behind the counter / Church / Youth Sunday / On Brevity / Music / Quotidian / The panther is a virtual animal / Healthcare / Unbought, unbossed, unbothered / Crazy when you smile / Traffic / Rainbows aren't real, are they / A surname to honor their mother / At the Superdome after the storm has passed / Mother and son / Justice / Progress report /
