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| Interpreting African-American History | |
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| Documents | |
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| The Brownie's Book | |
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| Encourages Black Children to Know Their History, 1920 | |
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| Carter G. Woodson on His Goals for Black History, 1922 | |
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| Mary McLeod Bethune Outlines the Objectives of the Association for the Study of Negro Life and History, 1937 | |
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| John Hope Franklin Explains the Lonely Dilemma of the American Negro Scholar, 1963 | |
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| Vincent Harding on the Differences Between Negro History and Black History, 1971 | |
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| Lucille Clifton and the Nurturing of History, c. 1990 | |
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| Essays | |
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| The History of African-American History | |
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| The Burden of African-American History: Memory, Justice, and a Usable Past Fath | |
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| Sites of Memory, Sites of Struggle: The "Materials" of History | |
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| The Work of Reconstruction | |
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| Documents | |
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| African Americans in Richmond, Virginia, Petition President Andrew Johnson, 1865 | |
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| Freedmen of Edisto Island, South Carolina, Demand Land, 1865 | |
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| Captain Charles Soule, Northern Army Officer, Lectures Ex-Slaves on the Responsibilities of Freedom, 1865 | |
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| A Share-Wages Contract, 1865 | |
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| Charles Raushenberg, a Freedmen's Bureau Agent, Reports from Georgia, 1867 | |
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| Martin Lee, a Freedman, Struggles to Reunite His Family, 1866 | |
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| Elizabeth Botume, a Northern Schoolteacher, Remembers a Husband and Wife Reunion, c. 1865 | |
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| Harriet Hernandes, a South Carolina Woman, Testifies Against the Ku Klux Klan, 1871 | |
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| Elected Representatives, 1872 | |
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| Essays | |
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| Schools for Freedom | |
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| Defining Free Labor | |
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| The Labor of Politics | |
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| Renegotiating African-American Life in the New South | |
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| Documents | |
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| Black Southerners Look Toward Kansas, 1877 | |
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| David C. Barrow, Jr., a Georgia Planter's Son, Describes the Emergence of Sharecropping, 1880 | |
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| Nate Shaw Aims to Make a Living Farming, 1907-1908 | |
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| Black Southerners Appeal to President William McKinley for Federal Protection, 1898-1900 | |
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| Representative George White of North Carolina Delivers His Final Speech on the Floor of Congress, 1901 | |
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| Richmond Planet Reports a Streetcar Boycott, 1904-1905 | |
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| A Public Library Opens in Louisville, Kentucky, 1908 | |
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| Essays | |
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| Renegotiating the Community | |
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| The Politics of Labor | |
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| Rural Exodus and the Growth of New Urban Communities | |
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| Documents | |
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| Black Population of Selected Cities, 1910-1930 | |
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| Migrants' Letters, 1917 | |
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| Helpful Hints for Migrants to Detroit, 1918 | |
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| George Edmund Haynes, a Black Social Scientist, Surveys Detroit, 1918 | |
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| A Migrant Family Adjusts to Life in Chicago, 1922 | |
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| Migration Blues | |
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| Essays | |
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| The Great Migration | |
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| Caribbean Connections | |
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| Defining a Race Politics | |
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| Documents | |
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| Ida B. Wells Urges Self-Defense, 1892 | |
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| Booker T. Washington Promotes Accommodationism, 1895 | |
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| Resolutions of the National Association of Colored Women, 1904 | |
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| The Niagara Men Pldege Themselves to Persistent Agitation, 1905 | |
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| Maggie Lena Walker Talks to Black Men About Racial Responsibility, 1906 | |
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| Promoting Black Towns, c. 1907 | |
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| Ten Thousand Charlestonians Petition for Black Teachers in Black Schools, 1919 | |
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| The Messenger Urges Black and White Workers to Organize, 1919 | |
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| Marcus Garvey Assesses the Situation for Black People, 1922 | |
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| Essays | |
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| Race and Feminism | |
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| Race Consciousness and Radicalism | |
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| The Culture Wars | |
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| Documents | |
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| A Review of Scott Joplin's Opera "Treemonisha," 1911 | |
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| Blues Lyrics of the 1920s Rev. George W. Harvey, Baptist Minister, Denounces Swinging Spirituals, 1939 | |
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| Alain Locke, Philosopher, Defines the "New Negro," 1925 | |
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| Langston Hughes, Poet and Writer, Critiques His Critics, 1940 | |
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| Screening the Race, 1925 | |
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| Zora Neale Hurston, Writer and Anthropologist, Takes Her University Training Home, 1927 | |
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| A Roundtable Discussion on African Survivals in Gullah Language, 1941 | |
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| Essays | |
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| The Blues Aesthetic and Black Vernacular | |
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| Constructing Working-Class Culture | |
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| Opportunities Lost and Found | |
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| Documents | |
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| Black Population in Selected Cities, 1940-1960 | |
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| Charles Hamilton Houston and John P. Davis Critique the Lily-White Tennessee Valley Authority, 1934 | |
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| Protesting Lynching: A National Crime, 1934 | |
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| A "Black Cabinet" Assembles, 1938 | |
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| Louise "Mamma" Harris Describes Labor Organizing in Richmond, Virginia, Tobacco Factories, 1940 | |
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| A Marine's Letter to A. Philip Randolph About Discrimination in the Marine Corps, c. 1943 | |
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| Breaking the Color Bar in Sports, 1947 | |
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| Essays | |
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| Radical Organizing During the Depression Gretchen Lemke-Santangelo, New Lives in the West | |
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| Origins of the Civil Rights Movement | |
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| Documents | |
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| Ella Baker and Marvel Cooke Describe Exploitation of Black Women Workers During the Depression, 1935 | |
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| Young Radicals Propose an Economic Program for the NAACP, 1935 | |
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| Charles Hamilton Houston Lays Out a Legal Strategy for the NAACP, 1935 | |
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| Goals of the National Negro Congress, 1935 | |
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| A Call to March on Washington, 1941 | |
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| James Farmer Recounts CORE's Early Direct Action Strategy, 1942 | |
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| Consumers Boycott Washington, D.C., Department Store, 1945 | |
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| Essays | |
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| Theatres of Resistance Robert Korstad and Nelson Lichtenstein, Labor and Civil Rights | |
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| The Civil Rights Movement | |
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| Documents | |
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| Jo Ann Robinson, Women's Political Council President, Hints of a Bus Boycott in Montgomery, Alabama, 1954 | |
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| Melba Pattillo Beals Recalls Her First Days at Little Rock Central High School, 1957 | |
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| Fannie Lou Hamer's Initiation into the Civil Rights Movement, 1962 | |
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| James Bevel, an SCLC Organizer, Mobilizes Birmingham's Young People, 1963 | |
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| Martin Luther King, Jr., Writes from His Jail Cell, 1963 | |
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| John Lewis, SNCC Chairman, Challenges the Federal Government, 1963 | |
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| Avon W. Rollins, an SNCC Field Secretary, Details Progrss Made in Danville, Virginia, 1964 | |
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| Malcolm X Defines Revolution, 1963 | |
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| Civil Rights Leader Bayard Rustin Is Forced Out, 1960 | |
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| Essays | |
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| "A Leader Who Stood Out in a Forest of Trees" | |
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| Cultural Traditions and the Politicization of Communities | |
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| Challenging the Politics of Spokesmanship | |
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| After "Freedom Now!" | |
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| Documents | |
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| Nina Simone's Song "Mississippi Goddam," 1964 | |
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| SNCC Denounces the Vietnam War, 1966 | |
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| An Interview with Black Panther Jimmy Slater Combahee River Collective Statement, 1977 | |
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| A Statistical Portrait of Black America, 1940-1990s | |
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| Miami's Concerned Black Organizations for Justice Issues a Manifesto of "Collective Needs," 1980 | |
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| Essays | |
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| Civil Rights Activism and the War on Poverty | |
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| The Political Culture of Detoit | |
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| Progress and Poverty: African Americans at the Dawn of the Twenty-First Century | |
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| Documents | |
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| Leanita McClain on Being Black, Successful, and Middle Class, 1980 | |
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| Jesse Jackson Addresses the Democratic National Convention, 1988 | |
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| The Children's Defense Fund Assesses the Life Chances of a Black Child in America, 2000 | |
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| The Relative Economic Condition of Black Youths, 1973 and 1993 | |
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| The United States Congress Investigates Rap Music, 1994 | |
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| The New Face of Racism: Racial Profiling, 1999 | |
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| The New Face of Racism: The Ordeal of Haitian Immigrants, 1998 | |
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| TheBorders of Black America: The New "Black" Immigrants, 1999 | |
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| Essays | |
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| Rethinking Constitutional Rights | |
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| Twenty-First Century Cultural Politics | |
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| The Changing Face of the Continuing Struggle | |
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