African American Political Thought, 1890-1930: Washington, Du Bois, Garvey, and Randolph

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• African American Political Thought 1890-1930 - Washington, Dubois, Garvey, and Randolph *
• African American Political Thought 1890-1930 - Washington, Dubois, Garvey, and Randolph *
• Contents *
• Preface xi
• Introduction 1
• I - Booker T. Washington *
• 1 - Letter to the Editor, Montgomery Advertiser, April 30, 1885 21
• 2 - Atlanta Exposition Address 23
• 3 - Address at the Unveiling of the Monument to Robert Gould Shaw 27
• 4 - Open Letter to the Louisiana Constitutional Convention, February 19,1898 30
• 5 - Letter to W. E. B. Du Bois, October 26,1899 33
• 6 - Interview, Atlanta Constitution, November 10, 1899 34
• 7 - Letter to W. E. B. Du Bois, March 11, 1900 38
• 8 - Letter to the Editor of the Montgomery Advertiser, September 23,1901 39
• 9 - Letter to Theodore Roosevelt, October 16,1901 40
• 10 - The Negro and the Signs of Civilization 41
• 11 - Statement on Suffrage, Philadelphia North American 43
• 12 - Statement Before the Washington Conference on the Race Problem in the United States 45
• 13 - Speech to the National Afro-American Council 47
• 14 - Letter to W. E. B. Du Bois, January 27,1904 51
• 15 - A Protest Against Lynching 52
• 16 - The Negro and the Labor Problem of the South 53
• 17 - Letter to President Theodore Roosevelt, December 26,1904 58
• 18 - The Negro in the North: Are His Advantages as Great as in the South 60
• 19 - Letter to William Howard Taft, June 4,1908 64
• 20 - A Statement on Lynching 66
• 21 - Letter to the Editor, Montgomery Advertiser, December 30,1910 68
• 22 - Letter to C. Elias Winston, October 2, 1914 71
• 23 - Speech to the National Negro Business League, August 18, 1915 73
• 24 - My View of Segregation Laws 78
• II - W. E. B. Du Bois *
• 1 - Letter to Booker T. Washington, September 24, 1895 85
• 2 - Strivings of the Negro People 85
• 3 - Letter to Booker T. Washington, February 17,1900 91
• 4 - The Evolution of Negro Leadership 92
• 5 - The Parting of the Ways 95
• 6 - Letter to Oswald Garrison Villard, March 24, 1905 98
• 7 - Declaration of Principles 102
• 8 - Two Editorials: "The Crisis" and "Agitation" 106
• 9 - A Philosophy for 1913 108
• 10 - The Immediate Program of the American Negro 109
• 11 - Booker T. Washington and "An Open Letter to Robert Russa Moton" 113
• 12 - Close Ranks 116
• 13 - Returning Soldiers 116
• 14 - White Co-Workers 118
• 15 - Marcus Garvey 121
• 16 - A Lunatic or a Traitor 129
• 17 - The Tragedy of "Jim Crow" 131
• 18 - The New Crisis 136
• 19 - Race Relations in the United States 139
• 20 - Economic Disfranchisement 145
• 21 - Marxism and the Negro Problem 146
• 22 - Pan-Africa and New Racial Philosophy 152
• 23 - Segregation 155
• 24 - The Board of Directors on Segregation 157
• 25 - A Negro Nation Within the Nation 159
• III - Marcus Garvey *
• 1 - The Negro's Greatest Enemy 169
• 2 - Letter to Robert Russa Moton, February 29,1916 178
• 3 - West Indies in the Mirror of Truth 184
• 4 - Editorials in Negro World: "Advice of the Negro to Peace Conference" and "Race Discrimination Must Go" 187
• 5 - George Cross Van Dusen to J. Edgar Hoover, March 19, 1921 190
• 6 - Address to the New York City Division of the Unia, January 26, 1919 195
• 7 - Address to Unia Supporters in Philadelphia, October 21, 1919 199
• 8 - Declaration of the Rights of the Negro Peoples of the World 208
• 9 - Editorial Letter in Negro World, September 11, 1920 215
• 10 - Address to the Second Unia Convention, New York, August 31, 1921 218
• 11 - Motive of the Naacp Exposed 224
• 12 - The Wonders of the White Man in Building America 229
• 13 - What We Believe 234
• 14 - Editorial Letter Written to Negro World, February 10, 1925 234
• 15 - Two Editorial Letters from New Orleans, December 10, 1927 238
• IV - A. Philip Randolph *
• 1 - The Negro in Politics 245
• 2 - Lynching: Capitalism Its Cause; Socialism Its Cure 253
• 3 - New Leadership for the Negro 259
• 4 - The Crisis of the Crisis 261
• 5 - Two Editorials: "Racial Equality" and "The Failure of the Negro Church" 266
• 6 - The Negro Radicals 269
• 7 - The New Negro—what is He? 272
• 8 - Garvey Unfairly Attacked 275
• 9 - Marcus Garvey! 276
• 10 - Reply to Marcus Garvey 278
• 11 - The State of the Race 286
• 12 - Segregation in the Public Schools: a Promise or a Menace 291
• 13 - Jim Crow Niggers 298
• 14 - Negroes and the Labor Movement 300
• 15 - The Negro and Economic Radicalism 301
• 16 - The New Pullman Porter 306
• 17 - The Negro Faces the Future 309
• 18 - The Need of a Labor Background 317
• 19 - Hating All White People 318
• 20 - Negro Congressmen 320
• 21 - Consumers' Co-Operation 322
• 22 - The Economic Crisis of the Negro 323
• Index 333
• About the Editor *

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