General Note:
Essays which present the Negro's role in American history, each prefaced by an analysis of the historical events surrounding the period it covers.
Bibliography, etc. Note:
Bibliography: p. [531]-538.
Formatted Contents Note:
Of our spiritual strivings / W.E.B. Du Bois -- African history / Philip D. Curtin -- Kingdoms of the old Sudan / Basil Davidson -- The Negro in the Americas / Frank Tannenbaum -- Slavery and the genesis of American race prejudice / Carl Degler -- Was slavery dying before the cotton gin? / Melvin Drimmer -- Slavery and the founding fathers / Straughton Lynd -- Evacuation with the British / Benjamin Quarles -- The historian and southern Negro slavery / Kenneth M. Stampp -- Motherhood in bondage / E. Franklin Frazier -- The black abolitionists / Leon Litwack -- The causes of the Civil War: a note on historical sentimentalism / Arthur M. Schlesinger -- The Negro: innately inferior or equal? / James M. McPherson -- Even the slave becomes a man ... / Dudley T. Cornish.
Reconstruction and its benefits / W.E.B. Du Bois -- The political legacy of reconstruction / C. Vann Woodward -- The South's new leaders / John H. Franklin -- Capitalism to racism / C. Vann Woodward -- Booker t. Washington: an interpretation / August Meier -- W.E.B. Du Bois: Entente with white liberals, 1910-1920 / Franklin L. Broderick -- Come out from among them: Negro migration and settlement, 1890-1914 / Gilbert Osofsky -- Marcus Garvey: One aim! One God! One destiny! / E. David Cronon -- The background of the Negro renaissance / Robert A. Bone -- The school segregation cases / Anthony Lewis -- On the role of Martin Luther King / A. Meier -- The black Muslims as a protest movement / C. Eric Lincoln -- The pilgrimage of Malcolm X / I.F. Stone -- Du Bois: A contemporary assessment / Harold R. Isaacs -- Notes on Negro American influences in the emergence of African nationalism / George Shepperson -- Why Negroes are still angry / Victor H. Bernstein.
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