Jim Crow : voices from a century of struggle. Part two, 1919-1976 : Tulsa to the Boston busing crisis / Tyina L. Steptoe, editor.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Steptoe, Tyina L., 1975- editor.

Series:

Library of America ; 387.

The Library of America ; 387

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Racism--United States.

Racism.

African Americans--History.

African Americans.

Racism against Black people--United States--History.

Racism against Black people.

African Americans--Legal status, laws, etc.

United States--History--1865-1921.

United States.

United States--Race relations--History.

Physical Description:

xxvii, 865 pages ; 21 cm.

Other Title:

Voices from a century of struggle

Tulsa to the Boston busing crisis

Place of Publication:

New York, N.Y. : Library of America, [2025]

Summary:

"The end of World War I transformed the struggle for racial equality in the United States as the "New Negro" began to challenge the oppressive regime of disenfranchisement, segregation, racial terror, and cultural calumny that had emerged from the ruins of Reconstruction. Jim Crow: Voices from a Century of Struggle captures firsthand how courageous Americans, Black and white, fought against white supremacy and brought about a Second Reconstruction. This second of two volumes opens with Ida B. Wells defending condemned Arkansas sharecroppers and concludes with Barbara Jordan expressing her belief that "the gap between the promise and reality of America can one day be finally closed." Along the way readers encounter both famous and unjustly neglected writers: Mary E. Jones Parrish and B.C. Franklin bearing witness to the Tulsa Massacre; Mary McLeod Bethune warning Franklin Roosevelt not to take Black voters for granted; Thurgood Marshall exposing police brutality; Theodore Stanford reporting on the battles and aspirations of "Tan Yanks" fighting in Europe; Paul Robeson's combative appearance before a congressional committee; John Lewis's passionate speech at the March on Washington; Fannie Lou Hamer's searing account of being beaten for trying to become a "first-class citizen"; James Baldwin debating William F. Buckley Jr.; and Ron Hutson's insightful look at the divided city of Boston on the eve of its busing crisis. Here as well are outspoken defenses of the white supremacy they were challenging: the "Dixiecrat" platform from 1948, the "Southern Manifesto" adopted after Brown v. Board of Education, George Wallace's defiant inaugural address as Alabama governor, and a White Citizens' Council ad urging newspaper readers to ask themselves, "What have I personally done to Maintain Segregation?" Marcus Garvey, Elijah Muhammad, Malcolm X, Robert F. Williams, and the Black Panther Party for Self-Defense advance radical alternatives to the demand for integration, while a selection of civil rights training materials reveal the mechanics of how Jim Crow worked and the dedication of those who sought to overthrow it."-- Provided by publisher

Contents:

Introduction / Tyina L. Steptoe

The Race Conflict in Arkansas / Walter White , December 13, 1919

Condemned Arkansas Rioters Look to Chicago for Help / Ida B. Wells-Barnett , December 13, 1919

The Shame of America: Or the Negro's Case against the Republic / Archibald H. Grimké , December 29, 1919

Memorandum on Marcus Garvey / Military Intelligence Division , May 5, 1921

from Events of the Tulsa Disaster / Mary E. Jones Parrish , 1921

The Tulsa Race Riot and Three of Its Victims / B. C. Franklin , 1921

Oral History Interview on the Tulsa Race / Otis Clark , Massacre, 1921

Membership Appeal to the Negro Citizens of New York / Marcus Garvey , July 1921

Petition for Writ of Habeas Corpus in Moore v. Dempsey / Scipio Africanus Jones , September 21, 1921

Address in Birmingham, Alabama / Warren G. Harding , October 26, 1921

Timely Talk on Race Issue / Raymond Clapper , October 26, 1921

The Passage of the Dyer Bill / James Weldon Johnson , February 4, 1922

Negro Porter Whipped by Masked Citizens of Abilene / Colonel Mayfield's Weekly , February 18, 1922

To the Editor of the Observer / W. P. Evans , May 20 and June 3, 1923

Far Away Blues / George Brooks , recorded 1923

Report on the Lynching of Sammie Smith / Walter White , December 1924

Decision Rendered in Students' Row / The Rocky Mountain News , January 8, 1925

Enter the New Negro / Alain Locke , March 1925

The Challenge of Detroit / W.E.B. Du Bois , November 1925

We Must Fight if We Would Survive / The New York Amsterdam News , November 18, 1925

"Not Guilty," Dr. Sweet Tells Jury / Nettie George Speedy , November 28, 1925

Why I Stay in Texas and Fight / Clifton F. Richardson , September 24, 1927

from All God's Dangers: The Life of Nate Shaw / Ned Cobb , 1904-8, c. 1930

They Shall Not Die! Stop the Legal Lynching: The Story of Scottsboro in Pictures / Elizabeth Lawson , 1932

Calls Negro Masses to Unite / The Advocate , June 19, 1932

What Do You Say About It? / The Chicago Defender , September 10, 1932

The Lynching of George Armwood / Baltimore Afro-American , October 28, 1933

Scottsboro Youths in Greatest Danger; Organizations Asked to Send Delegates to Congress / California Eagle , July 20, 1934

Scottsboro Attorneys in High Court / Ben Davis, Jr. , February 16, 1935

Knight Has No Answer to the Scottsboro Defense / Marguerite Young , February 19, 1935

Watching the Scottsboro Case in Supreme Court / Baltimore Afro-American , February 23, 1935

Highest Court Hears Scottsboro Case / Louis R. Lautier , February 23, 1935

Draft Letter to the Editor on the Scottsboro Case / Grace Mott Johnson , April 6, 1936

to Anna Damon / Haywood Patterson , October 12, 1937

Draft Letter to Franklin D. Roosevelt / Mary McLeod Bethune , November 27, 1939

"It's Our Country, Too" / Walter White , December 14, 1940

Should I Sacrifice To Live "Half-American?" / James G. Thompson , January 31, 1942

Why Should We March? / March on Washington Movement , Summer 1942

The Gestapo in Detroit / Thurgood Marshall , August 1943

Morale Sags at Camp Forrest as Jim Crow Rules / Deton J. Brooks, Jr. , November 6, 1943

The Negro Soldier / James Agee , March 27, 1944

Negro Marines Win Admiration Of Vets in Southwest Pacific / Fletcher P. Martin , April 7, 1944

The Woman Next Door: A Story of Unequal Justice / Committee for Equal Justice for Mrs. Recy Taylor , 1945

Equal Justice Under Law / Earl Conrad, Eugene Gordon, and Henrietta Buckmaster , 1945

to Chauncey Sparks / Raymond and Rosa Parks , March 16, 1945

Reporting from Europe 784th Wins Battle Honors In Capturing German Towns / Theodore Stanford , March 31, 1945

Democracy Goal of Tan Yanks Abroad / Theodore Stanford , May 19, 1945

German Women See Tan Yanks as Men Only / Theodore Stanford , June 9, 1945

An American Credo / Pauli Murray , Winter 1945

It Was a Great Day in Jersey / Wendell Smith , April 27, 1946

Lynch Try Fails on "Daily" Man and Lawyers in Tenn. / Harry Raymond , November 20, 1946

Make Lynching a Federal Offense / Journal of the National Medical Association , July 1947

from Coming of Age in Mississippi / Anne Moody , 1947-48

Speech to the Democratic National Convention / Hubert H. Humphrey , July 14, 1948

Declaration of Principles / Birmingham Convention of States' Rights Democrats , July 17, 1948

from Killers of the Dream / Lillian Smith , 1949

Message from the NAACP to the Negro Voters of Harris County / Lonnie E. Smith and Christia V. Adair , August 21, 1950

Dissent in Briggs v. Elliott / Julius Waties Waring , June 23, 1951

Acceptance Speech as Vice Presidential Candidate of the Progressive Party / Charlotta Bass , March 30, 1952

Negro Family to Remain Despite Flaming Cross / Portland Challenger , May 20, 1953

Resents Ike's Taking Credit for Winning DC Restaurant Case / Alice A. Dunnigan , June 20, 1953

Opinion in Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka / Earl Warren , May 17, 1954

from The Montgomery Bus Boycott and the Women Who Started It / Jo Ann Gibson Robinson , 1953-55

When I Will Get to Be Called a Man / Big Bill Broonzy , October 1955

Declaration of Constitutional Principles / Southern Senators and Representatives , March 12, 1956

Alabama Pickets Rock-Roll Troupe / The Chicago Defender , May 21, 1956

How to Solve the Segregation Problem / Harry Golden , May-June 1956

from Testimony Before the House Committee on Un-American Activities / Paul Robeson , June 12, 1956

Mr. Muhammad Speaks: Who Is the Original Man? / Elijah Muhammad , July 28, 1956

We Are Rising from the Dead Since We Heard Messenger Muhammad... / Malcolm X , December 15 and 22, 1956

from Oral History Interview on Life in Houston in the 1950s and 1960s / Paulette Williams Grant

Predicts End To Housing Bias, Migrations / The Chicago Defender , September 13, 1958

Bigger Than A Hamburger / Ella Baker , May 1960

from Negroes with Guns / Robert F. Williams , 1962

Negro Voting in Louisiana / Congress of Racial Equality , c. 1962-63

Louisiana Voter Registration Procedures , c. 1963

George Wallace / Inaugural Address as Governor of Alabama , January 14, 1963

Violence Stalks Voter-Registration Workers in Mississippi / Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee , March 12, 1963

Statement on State Court Injunction Against Demonstrations / Fred Shuttlesworth , April 14, 1963

Ask Yourself This Important Question: What Have I Personally Done to Maintain Segregation? / Dallas County Citizens Council , June 9, 1963

Report to the American People on Civil Rights / John F. Kennedy , June 11, 1963

Official Program for the March on Washington , August 28, 1963

Speech at the March on Washington, Original Text and Speech as Delivered / John Lewis , August 28, 1963

Labor Report Shows: Negro Women Are Improving Their Status / Sue Cronk , March 28, 1964

The Ballot or the Bullet / Malcolm X , April 3, 1964

Program of the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party , c. June 1964

Remarks in the Senate on the Civil Rights Bill / Mike Mansfield, Richard Russell, Hubert H. Humphrey, and Everett McKinley Dirksen , June 10, 1964

Testimony to the Credentials Committee Democratic National Convention / Fannie Lou Hamer , August 22, 1964

An Exchange on Urban Riots and Policing / Robert Penn Warren and Bayard Rustin , 1964

Dr. King Rebuts Hoover Charges / John Herbers , November 20, 1964

Sample Alabama Literacy Test Questions , c. 1964-65

Debate at the Cambridge Union / James Baldwin and William F. Buckley , February 18, 1965

Speech in Congress on the Voting Rights Act / John Conyers , July 8, 1965

CORE Voter Registration Training Materials for Louisiana , c. 1965

School Trustees Set Talk on Negro Hiring / Palm Springs Desert Sun , September 30, 1965

Greater Effort Pledged on Hiring of Negro Teachers / Palm Springs Desert Sun , October 1, 1965

Statement on Black Power / Vine City Project , Spring 1966

How the Black Panther Party Was Organized / John Hulett , May 22, 1966

Speech on Black Power / Stokely Carmichael , October 29, 1966

Ten-Point Program of the Black Panther Party for Self Defense , May 15, 1967

Opinion in Loving v. Virginia / Earl Warren , June 12, 1967

from Oral History Interview on Lyndon B. / Thurgood Marshall , Johnson, 1941-67

Mob Violence in Milwaukee / Madison Capital Times , August 30, 1967

to Father James Groppi / A Teacher , August 30, 1967

Statement at a Press Conference / Henry Maier , August 31, 1967

to Father James Groppi / Leonard D. Mills , November 4, 1967

Report of the National Advisory Commission on Civil Disorders: from the Summary: Introduction, The Basic Causes , February 29, 1968

Report of the National Advisory Commission on Civil Disorders: Police and the Community , February 29, 1968

Have Sanitation Workers A Future? / Community on the Move for Equality , Spring 1968

Oral History Interview on Lyndon B. Johnson / Whitney M. Young , 1955-68

Father Groppi: A Modern Priest Looks at a Racist Society / Annette Chandler , March 5, 1969

Speech at Howard University / Shirley Chisholm , April 21, 1969

Future of Civil Rights Worries Old Guard as Gains Are Noted / Nick Kotz , December 25, 1972

Common Fear, Safety for Students, Ripples through North Dorchester, Roxbury as Busing Becomes Real / Ron Hutson , June 27, 1974

from Dissent in Milliken v. Bradley / Thurgood Marshall , July 25, 1974

Race, Schools and Riots in Boston / Thomas Pettigrew , November 1974

Keynote Address at the Democratic National Convention / Barbara Jordan , July 12, 1976

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781598538014

1598538012

OCLC:

1454718500