Black Power: The Radical Response to White America

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Title
Black Power: The Radical Response to White America
This edition
"Black Power: The Radical Response to White Power". Ed. Thomas Wagstaff. [Beverly Hills, CA]: Glencoe Press, 1968. 150 pp.
Table of contents
Part 1: The Negroes' Quest for an American Identity
● Benjamin Banneker / Under the Abuse and Censure of the World [Banneker's letter to Thomas Jefferson] (1792)
● Frederick Douglass / Why Am I a Slave?
● John S. Rock / Our Heads Are in the Lion's Mouth (1862)
● Frederick Douglass / Not Benevolence But Simply Justice (1865)
● W. E. B. Du Bois / Three Centuries of Discrimination (1947)

Part 2: Radical Alternatives To Integration in the Nineteenth Century
● Charles Lenox Redmond / The Fourth of July Is an Insult (1857)
● Henry Highland Garnet / If You Must Bleed, Let It Come All at Once (1843)
● William Wells Brown / Every Eye Is Looking for Another Nat Turner (1863)
● Martin R. Delaney / I Have No Hopes in This Country (1852)
● Resolution of the convention of free colored people (1852)
● James Forten / We Have No Wish to Separate from Our Present Homes (1836)
● Henry M. Turner / There Is No Manhood Future in the United States for the Negro (1895)

Part 3: Black Radicalism in the Early Twentieth Century
● W. E. B. Du Bois / The Conservation of Races (1897)
● Oswald Z. Parris / The Nationalism of the New Negro (1920)
● Marcus Garvey / The Negro's Greatest Enemy (1923)
● A. Philip Randolph / The Only Way to Redeem Africa (1923)
● Claude McKay / Soviet Russia and the Negro (1923)

Part 4: The Emergence of Black Power
● Robert F. Williams / Every Freedom Movement Is Labeled "Communist" (1962)
● SNCC Position Paper on Black Power / Who Is the Real Villain: Uncle Tom or Simon Legree? (1966)
● James Baldwin / A Letter to Americans (1968)
● Charles V. Hamilton / An Advocate of Black Power Defines It (1968)
● Eugene D. Genovese / The Legacy of Slavery and the Roots of Black Nationalism
Item Number
A0629
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