Time longer than rope
Subtitle: a century of African American activism, 1850-1950
By: edited by Charles M. Payne and Adam Green.
Contributors: Payne, Charles M.; Green, Adam, 1963-
Publisher: New York University Press
Published: 2003
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 584
Subjects: African Americans -- Civil rights -- Southern States -- History -- 19th century; African Americans -- Civil rights -- Southern States -- History -- 20th century; African Americans -- Social conditions -- To 1964; African American political activists -- Southern States -- History; African American civil rights workers -- Southern States -- History; Civil rights movements -- Southern States -- History -- 19th century; Civil rights movements -- Southern States -- History -- 20th century; Southern States -- Race relations; Southern States -- History -- 1865-1951
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Slave labor camps in early America / Peter H. Wood; title: Abraham H. Galloway / David S. Cecelski; title: Negotiating and transforming the public sphere / Elsa Barkley Brown; title: "Liberty dearly bought" / Thavolia Glymph; title: The new Negro in the American Congo / Nan Elizabeth Woodruff; title: Intellectual pan-African feminists / Ula Y. Taylor; title: "Eat your bread without butter, but pay your poll tax!" / Paul Ortiz; title: "With the aid of God and the F.S.A." / Greta de Jong; title: Beyond the "talented tenth" / Brian Kelly; title: The power of remembering / Michael Honey; title: Being red and Black in Jim Crow America / Winston James; title: Building interracial democracy  / Tracy E. K'Meyer; title: "A bland, scholarly, teetotaling sort of man" / Caroline Emmons; title: Leading the civil rights vanguard in South Carolina / Wim Roefs; title: A marble house divided / Scott A. Sandage; title: "We men ain't we" / Charise Cheney.