The Negro Since Emancipation

Harvey Wish, editor

Penerbit : Prentice-Hall, Inc., Englewood Cliffs, N.J.

Tahun : 1965

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This anthology presents historical sources and essays on African-American experience, leadership, strategy, and protest from emancipation to the civil rights era. The editor brings together writings representing different currents of thought, including anti-slavery activism, Reconstruction, Jim Crow segregation, migration, Black nationalism, and modern political and social criticism. The book includes selections from or about Frederick Douglass, Booker T. Washington, W. E. B. Du Bois, Kelly Miller, James Weldon Johnson, Carter G. Woodson, Langston Hughes, Richard Wright, Walter White, Ralph Bunche, Ralph Ellison, Martin Luther King Jr., A. Philip Randolph, James Baldwin, and Elijah Muhammad. Its structure highlights debates over education, integration, protest, leadership, voting rights, legal equality, and the direction of Black social struggle after slavery.

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