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| Foreword | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Pre-Revolutionary Voices | |
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| James Albert Ukawsaw Gronniosaw (1710-?) | |
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| Olaudah Equiano (1745-1797) | |
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| Phillis Wheatley (1753-1784) | |
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| Lemuel Haynes (1753-1833) | |
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| John Cuffe (c. 1755-?) | |
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| The Lord Will Provide | |
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| Richard Allen (1760-1831) | |
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| Old Elizabeth (1766-?) | |
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| Jupiter Hammon (c. 1711-1806) | |
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| Belinda (c. 1717-?) | |
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| Benjamin Banneker (1731-1806) | |
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| Prince Hall (1748-1797) | |
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| From the Cotton Patch to the Big House | |
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| Jenny Proctor (c. 1845-?) | |
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| Peter Williams (?-1849) | |
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| Abd ar-Rahman (c. 1790-?) | |
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| Austin Steward (1793-1860) | |
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| Let your Motto be Resistance! | |
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| Nat Turner (1800-1831) | |
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| Henry Highland Garnet (1815-1882) | |
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| Harriet Jacobs (1815?-1897) | |
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| Frederick Douglass (1818-1895) | |
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| John Parker (1827-1900) | |
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| Osborne Anderson (1830-1872) | |
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| Caught Between the Blue and the Gray | |
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| Mattie J. Jackson (1800-?) | |
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| William Wells Brown (1814-1884) | |
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| Robert Purvis (1810-1898) | |
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| Harriet Tubman (1820-1913) | |
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| Elizabeth Keckley (1824-1907) | |
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| John Boston (c. 1842-?) | |
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| Charlotte Forten (1837-1914) | |
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| Ann (c. 1835-?) | |
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| Octave Johnson (1840-?) | |
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| Patsey Leach (1843-?) | |
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| No Land, No Mules, and for Millions, No Vote | |
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| John Mercer Langston (1829-1879) | |
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| Sojourner Truth (c.1797-1883) | |
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| Samuel Larkin (c. 1840-?) | |
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| John R. Lynch (1847-1939) | |
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| Dawn of a New Century | |
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| Booker T. Washington (1857?-1915) | |
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| Lewis Latimer (1848-1928) | |
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| Henry McNeal Turner (1834-1915) | |
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| Anna Julia Cooper (1858/9-1964) | |
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| Mary Church Terrell (1863-1954) | |
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| Paul Laurence Dunbar (1872-1906) | |
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| Alice Moore Dunbar-Nelson (1875-1935) | |
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| And Some of us are Bold | |
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| James Weldon Johnson (1871-1938) | |
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| W. E. B. Du Bois (1868-1963) | |
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| Ida B. Wells Barnett (1862-1931) | |
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| Matthew Henson (1866-1955) | |
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| Ferdinand "Jelly Roll" Morton (1890-1941) | |
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| Jack Johnson (1878-1946) | |
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| Ethel Waters (1896-1977) | |
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| Seeking a Wider World | |
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| Addie Hunton (1875-1943) | |
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| Harry Haywood (1898-1985) | |
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| Era Bell Thompson (1906-1986) | |
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| Dorothy West (1909-1998) | |
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| Richard Wright (1908-1960) | |
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| Marcus Garvey (1887-1940) | |
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| The Harlem Renaissance and Beyond | |
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| Langston Hughes (1898-1967) | |
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| Howard "Stretch" Johnson (1915- ) | |
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| Zora Neale Hurston (1891-1960) | |
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| Pauli Murray (1910-1985) | |
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| Nate Shaw (c. 1900- ) | |
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| Haywood Patterson (1913-1952) | |
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| James Cameron (1914- ) | |
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| Adam Clayton Powell, Jr. (1908-1972) | |
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| On the Home Front | |
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| Conrad Lynn (1908-1995) | |
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| Marian Anderson (1900-1993) | |
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| Nelson Peery (1923- ) | |
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| Althea Gibson (1927- ) | |
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| A. Philip Randolph (1889-1979) | |
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| Clarence Atkins (1922- ) | |
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| Charles Denby (1907-1983) | |
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| Maya Angelou (1928- ) | |
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| Coleman Young (1918-1998) | |
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| The Calm Before the Storm | |
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| Curtis Morrow (1933- ) | |
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| Jane (1914- ) | |
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| Paul Robeson (1898-1976) | |
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| Sunnie Wilson (1908-1999) | |
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| Coretta Scott King (1927- ) | |
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| Constance Baker Motley (1921- ) | |
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| Ain't Gonna Let Nobody Turn us Around | |
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| Rosa Parks (1913- ) | |
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| Ella Baker (1903-1986) | |
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| James Forman (1928- ) | |
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| Melba Pattillo Beals (1942- ) | |
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| Breakthroughs and Personal Intimacies | |
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| Ossie Davis (1917- ) and Ruby Dee (1924- ) | |
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| Anne Moody (1940- ) | |
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| Sharon Robinson (1950- ) | |
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| Malcolm X (1925-1965) | |
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| General Gordon Baker (1942- ) | |
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| Gordon Parks (1912- ) | |
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| David Parks (1944- ) | |
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| To Die for the People | |
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| Kwame Ture (1941-1998) | |
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| Martin Luther King, Jr. (1929-1968) | |
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| H. Rap Brown (1943- ) | |
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| Angela Davis (1944- ) | |
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| George Jackson (1941-1971) | |
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| Elaine Brown (1943- ) | |
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| Randall Robinson (1941- ) | |
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| A Way with Words | |
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| LL Cool J (1968- ) | |
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| Johnnie Cochran (1938- ) | |
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| Margaret Walker (1915- ) | |
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| Lee Stringer (1950- ) | |
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| Sam Fulwood (1956- ) | |
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| Tyrone Powers (1961- ) | |
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| Bitter the Chastening Rod | |
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| Audre Lorde (1934-1993) | |
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| Jill Nelson (1953- ) | |
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| Johnnetta B. Cole (1936- ) | |
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| Max Roach (1924- ) | |
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| Alvin Ailey (1931-1989) | |
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| Colin L. Powell (1937- ) | |
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| "No Justice, No Peace!" | |
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| Al Sharpton (1954- ) | |
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| Bari-Ellen Roberts (1953- ) | |
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| Anita Hill (1950- ) | |
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| Gary Franks (1953- ) | |
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| James McBride (1957- ) | |
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| Mumia Abu-Jamal (1956- ) | |
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| Kevin Powell (1966- ) | |
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| Rev. Bernice King (1963- ) | |
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| Selected Bibliography | |
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| Permissions | |