In their own words
Subtitle: a history of the American Negro, 1865-1916
By: edited by Milton Meltzer
Publisher: Crowell
Published: 1965
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 180
Subjects: Sources; Civil rights; African Americans; Biography; History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 175-176).
Table of contents: title: When freedom come: 1865 ; Toby and Govie ; I stayed in peonage; title: The riot in New Orleans: platform in mechanics' institute after the riot; title: From Memphis to New Orleans: 1866 ; Sarah Song ; J.B. Jourdain; title: Henry McNeal Turner; title: I shall not beg for my rights: 1868 ; Printing shop at Tuskegee Institute; title: Frederick Douglas: His crime was his color: 1869 ; Representative Jefferson Long; title: I prophesy trouble: 1871; title: KKK: North Carolina, South Carolina; title: Broadside: Proceedings of the State Convention of the colored citizens of Tennessee, held in Nashville 1871; title: We did not discriminate: 1872 ; Freedmen's School at Atlanta, Georgia; title: I had reached the promised land: 1872 ; Hampton Normal and Agricultural Institute in Virginia ; Excerpt from "Up from Slavery" / Booker T. Washington; title: 1880s lithograph of ex-senator Blanche K. Bruce, Frederick Douglass, and ex-senator Hiram R. Revels; title: We want mixed schools: 1872; title: 14th Amendment to the Constitution: negroes were citizens entitled to equal treatment before the law; title: Is the negro a man? 1873; title: Robert B. Elliott delivering his great speech on civil rights; title: Justice demands it: 1874 ; sharecropping; title: You all must live agreeable: 1875; title: Reconstruction and Charles Caldwell; title: A notorious negro: 1875; title: A choice between blood and liberty: 1880; title: Exodus: 1880; title: Booker T. Washington (p. 102); title: The anaconda: 1889: The Panic of 1873; title: Colored Farmers' Alliance; title: We joined hands: 1891; title: Excuse for lynching: 1892; title: Students of forestry at Booker T. Washington's Tuskegee Institute; title: Cast down your bucket where you are: 1895; title: John Hope; title: I want equality, nothing less: 1896; title: A happy set of people: 1902; title: Hell itself: 1905; title: Founders of the Niagara Movement; title: No cowards or trucklers: 1906; title: Mob law in Lincoln's state: 1910; title: Excerpt from "How enfranchisement stops lynching: by Ida B. Wells-Barnett; title: Langston Hughes, age 17; title: My soul is full of color: 1916; title: Excerpt from "The Big Sea" by Langston Hughes; title: A calendar of negro history, 1866-1916.