Daily Life of African Americans in Primary Documents [2 volumes]
by20201124
Greenwood
Pages | 760 |
Topics | Volume 1:;Abolition;Black Churches;Childhood;Contrabands;Cruelty Toward Slaves;Family Life;Free Blacks;Life on Plantations;Manumission;Medical Care;The Middle Passage;The Slave Trade;Volume 2:;Black Businesses;Black Codes;Black Elected Officials;Black Power;Civil Rights |
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Covey, Herbert and Eisnach, Dwight, editors. Daily Life of African Americans in Primary Documents [2 volumes]. Greenwood, 2020. ABC-CLIO, publisher.abc-clio.com/9781440866654.
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Covey, Herbert, and Dwight Eisnach, eds. Daily Life of African Americans in Primary Documents [2 volumes]. Greenwood, 2020. http://publisher.abc-clio.com/9781440866654
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Covey, H. & Eisnach, D. (Eds.). (2020). Daily Life of African Americans in Primary Documents [2 volumes]. Retrieved from http://publisher.abc-clio.com/9781440866654
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Daily Life of African Americans in Primary Documents takes readers on an insightful journey through the life experiences of African Americans over the centuries, capturing African American experiences, challenges, accomplishments, and daily lives, often in their own words.
This two-volume set provides readers with a balanced collection of materials that captures the wide-ranging experiences of African American people over the history of America. Volume 1 begins with the enslavement and transportation of slaves to North America and ends with the Civil War; Volume 2 continues with the beginning of Reconstruction through the election of Barack Obama to the American presidency.
Each volume provides a chronology of major events, a historic overview, and sections devoted to domestic, material, economic, intellectual, political, leisure, and religious life of African Americans for the respective time spans. Volume 1 covers a wide variety of topics from a multitude of perspectives in such areas as enslavement, life during the Civil War, common foods, housing, clothing, political opinions, and similar topics. Volume 2 addresses the civil rights movement, court cases, life under Jim Crow, Reconstruction, busing, housing segregation, and more.
Each volume includes 100–110 primary sources with suggested readings from government publications, court testimony, census data, interviews, newspaper accounts, period appropriate letters, Works Progress Administration interviews, sermons, laws, diaries, and reports.
- Includes more than 200 primary sources unchanged from the originals and accompanied by introductions that inform readers of the significance of the primary source
- Incorporates the perspectives of former enslaved African Americans through Works Progress Administration interviews
- Identifies some of the challenges of being black in American society
- Provides readers with a sense of the contexts in which African Americans have lived in America
- Highlights some of the success stories involving African Americans and some of their contributions to the advancement of American society
- Provides broad sweeping historic overviews for each volume as well as chronologies of significant events in African American history that shaped everyday life
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Table of Contents
Daily Life of African Americans in Primary Documents [2 volumes]
Contributors: Covey, Herbert; Eisnach, Dwight;Abstract:Daily Life of African Americans in Primary Documents takes readers on an insightful journey through the life experiences of African Americans over the centuries, capturing African American experiences, challenges, accomplishments, and daily lives, often in their own words.
This two-volume set provides readers with a balanced collection of materials that captures the wide-ranging experiences of African American people over the history of America. Volume 1 begins with the enslavement and transportation of slaves to North America and ends with the Civil War; Volume 2 continues with the beginning of Reconstruction through the election of Barack Obama to the American presidency.
Each volume provides a chronology of major events, a historic overview, and sections devoted to domestic, material, economic, intellectual, political, leisure, and religious life of African Americans for the respective time spans. Volume 1 covers a wide variety of topics from a multitude of perspectives in such areas as enslavement, life during the Civil War, common foods, housing, clothing, political opinions, and similar topics. Volume 2 addresses the civil rights movement, court cases, life under Jim Crow, Reconstruction, busing, housing segregation, and more.
Each volume includes 100–110 primary sources with suggested readings from government publications, court testimony, census data, interviews, newspaper accounts, period appropriate letters, Works Progress Administration interviews, sermons, laws, diaries, and reports.
- Includes more than 200 primary sources unchanged from the originals and accompanied by introductions that inform readers of the significance of the primary source
- Incorporates the perspectives of former enslaved African Americans through Works Progress Administration interviews
- Identifies some of the challenges of being black in American society
- Provides readers with a sense of the contexts in which African Americans have lived in America
- Highlights some of the success stories involving African Americans and some of their contributions to the advancement of American society
- Provides broad sweeping historic overviews for each volume as well as chronologies of significant events in African American history that shaped everyday life
Editor(s): Covey, Herbert; Eisnach, Dwight;SortTitle: daily life of african americans in primary documents [2 volumes]Author Info:Herbert C. CoveyeditorDwight EisnacheditoreISBN-13: 9781440866654Cover Image URL: ~~FreeAttachments/9781440866654.jpgPrint ISBN-13: 9781440866647Imprint: GreenwoodPages: 760Publication Date: 20201124Table of Contents pages: 1 2
- Chronology of Selected Events, 1865–2020 343372
- Part I. Historical Overview, 1865–2020 363392
- Part II. Domestic Life 375404
- Life After Slavery 375404
- Successful Black Communities 376405
- Race Massacres 384413
- Daily Life Under Jim Crow 399428
- Daily Life Under Segregation 411440
- 6. “Editorial, Intermarriage,” W. E. B. Du Bois, February 5 (1913) 411440
- 7. Senator Hiram Revels Calls for Desegregation of D.C. Schools (1871) 413442
- 8. M. Jay Lockard, Account of School Boycott and Shootings at the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party Center, August 16 (1965) 417446
- 9. Massachusetts Black Caucus Letter to Judge Arthur Garrity Regarding the Dangers of School Busing in Boston (1974) 423452
- Part III. Economic and Material Life 427456
- Economic Life After Slavery 427456
- The Great Depression 429458
- African American Socioeconomic Status 430459
- Food 432461
- Clothing 432461
- Health Care 433462
- 1. Special Field Orders No. 15—“Forty Acres and a Mule,” General William Tecumseh Sherman, January 16 (1865) 434463
- 2. Freedmen’s Contract between Isham G. Bailey and Freedmen Cooper Hughs and Charles Roberts, January 1 (1867) 436465
- 3. “The Negro as He Really Is,” W. E. B. Du Bois (1901) 438467
- 4. Nine Indicted for Peonage, June 3 (1909) 440469
- 5. More Slavery at the South, by a Negro Nurse, January 25 (1912) 442471
- 6. Interview with Dave Stephens, Tenant Farmer—North Carolina, September 18 (1938) 448477
- Labor Unions 450479
- Business Success 451480
- Socioeconomic Status of Black Americans 454483
- Part IV. Intellectual Life 467496
- Part V. Political Life 503532
- Laws 507536
- 1. The Civil War Amendments (1865–1870) 508537
- 2. Speech of Honorable T. B. Van Buren, on the Bill to Ratify the Amendment to the Constitution of the United States Prohibiting Slavery: In the New York House of Assembly, March 15 (1865) 510539
- 3. U.S. House of Representatives Thirteenth Amendment Speech by Thaddeus Stevens, January 13 (1865) 511540
- 4. Albert S. Pillsbury’s Letter of Witnessing the Passage of the Thirteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution (1865) 512541
- Black Codes 513542
- Reconstruction 517546
- Elected African Americans 522551
- 8. The Political Trials of Robert Smalls (1878) 523552
- 9. Speech Made in Reply to an Attack upon the Colored State Legislators ofSouth Carolina by Representative Cox of New York, Joseph H. Rainey (1871) 529558
- 10. Congressman George H. White’s Farewell Address to Congress (1896) 531560
- 11. The Conflict in Vietnam, Shirley Chisholm (1969) 535564
- 12. Statement on the Articles of Impeachment, July 25, 1974, House Judiciary Committee, Representative Barbara Charline Jordan (1974) 537566
- 13. A More Perfect Union, Senator Barrack Obama (2008) 541570
- Black Power 550579
- 14. The Basis of Black Power, Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee Position Paper on White Participation (1966) 550579
- 15. Ten-Point Program and Platform of the Black Student Unions, February (1969) 556585
- 16. Bobby G. Seale’s Handwritten Request for Legal Representation at the Chicago8 Trial (1969) 558587
- Part VI. The Struggle for Civil Rights 561590
- Civil Rights Organizations 561590
- The Decade of Protest 562591
- Civil Rights Martyrs 563592
- Court Cases 564593
- Lynching 580609
- 4. “Lynching and the Excuse for It,” Ida B. Wells Barnett (1901) 580609
- 5. Letter, Eleanor Roosevelt to Walter Francis White Detailing the First Lady’s Lobbying Efforts for Federal Action against Lynching, March 19 (1936) 586615
- 6. “40,000 at Till Youth’s Funeral: Two Men Held on Murder Indictment” (1955) 587616
- Assasinations 589618
- Voting Rights 591620
- Medical Experimentation 593622
- Civil Rights Movement 596625
- 11. General Rufus B. Saxton on Freed Blacks’ Desire to Acquire Arms, February 21 (1866) 596625
- 12. “Racial Segregation,” William Pickens Field (1927) 598627
- 13. Montgomery Police Department, Arrest Warrant for Rosa Parks (1955) 605634
- 14. House Committee on Un-American Activities (HUAC) Hearings and African Americans (1956) 607636
- 15. Radio and Television Report to the American People on Civil Rights, President John F. Kennedy, June 11, 1963 615644
- 16. Civil Rights Act Public Law 88-352 (78 Stat. 241) (1964) 619648
- Police and Criminal Justice Relations 625654
- Part VII. Military Life 633662
- Military Intervention in Civil Affairs 635664
- Military Service and Segregation 642671
- 2. Tribute to the Negro Soldier, General John J. Pershing (1919) 642671
- 3. Against Discrimination, Honorable Newton D. Baker, Secretary of War (1919) 643672
- 4. Transcript of Executive Order 9981: Desegregation of the Armed Forces, President Harry Truman (1948) 646675
- 5. Interview with Martha Putney, World War II Veteran, March 26 (2004) 647676
- 6. Interview with George Dunn, Vietnam Veteran August 12 (2003) 650679
- Part VIII. Leisure Life 655684
- Entertainment 657686
- 1. Lyrics to “Nobody” and “The Phrenologist Coon” (1905 and 1901) 657686
- 2. Amusements for Young People, W. E. B. Du Bois (1914) 660689
- 3. Black Entertainers in the Age of Swing, Lena Horne (1920s–1940s) 667696
- 4. The Negro Travelers’ Green Book, Victor H. Green (1956) 673702
- 5. “Ice Cube on Ghostwriting, Diss Tracks and Straight Outta Compton’s Timeliness” (2015) 674703
- Literature 677706
- Music 687716
- Sports 690719
- Part IX. Religious Life 691720
- Suggested Readings 703732
- Index 707736
- About the Editors 731760
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