Black Protest: History, Documents, and Analyses, 1619 to the Present

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Title: Black Protest: History, Documents, and Analyses, 1619 to the Present
This edition: "Black Protest: History, Documents, and Analyses, 1619 to the Present". Ed. Joanne Grant. New York: Fawcett, 1968. 505 pp.
Other editions, reprints, and translations: Repr. (in hardcover) New York: St. Martin's P, 1970.; Dutch trans. as "Zwart Protest." Ed. Joanne Grant; trans. Jos H. Schmitz. Tilburg: Nederlands Boekhuis, 1968. 232? pp.; Black Protest: History, Documents, and Analyses, 1619 to the Present (2nd ed.)
Online access: Notes on the digital reproduction in Internet Archive: "cut-off text due to tight binding . . . some pages are torn."; Internet Archive (1968 ed.); Internet Archive (1970 ed.)
Table of contents: Part I: Slavery and the Early Protests -- Early days in America -- Slave revolts and resistance -- Part II: Antebellum Days -- The abolitionists -- The Negro view -- Part III: A Nation Divided -- Negroes and the war -- Reconstruction -- Post-Reconstruction -- Part IV: The Early 20th Century -- Northern migration -- Separatism vs. alliance -- Part V: Depression and War -- Negro and labor -- Mass marches begin -- Part VI: The Birth of a New Movement -- The early challenges -- From sit-ins to the vote -- A federal presence -- Violent white resistance -- Negroes fight back -- Part VII: Political Action -- Appeal to Washington -- Independent political action -- Civil rights and peace -- Part VIII: Race and Economics -- Black and white -- Black Power -- The economic thrust.
About the anthology: A collection of primary documents (not all by African American authors) and analyses (mostly by African American authors) of movements and episodes in black protest in the United States from the colonial era to the present (1968). A hybrid text, in part an anthology of primary materials (many of them relatively contemporary) and in part a collection of essays.
Item Number: A0592a