ABSTRACT

This text presents a selection of essays and speeches written between 1890 and 1930 by Booker T. Washington, W.E.B. Du Bois, A. Philip Randolph and Marcus Garvey. The work analyses African-American political thought, defining the options confronting African Americans in the 20th century.

chapter |18 pages

Introduction

part I|2 pages

Booker T. Washington

chapter 2|4 pages

Atlanta Exposition Address

chapter 7|1 pages

Letter to W.E.B. Du Bois, March 11, 1900

chapter 10|2 pages

The Negro and the Signs of Civilization

chapter 14|1 pages

Letter to W.E.B. Du Bois, January 27, 1904

chapter 15|1 pages

A Protest against Lynching

chapter 20|2 pages

A Statement on Lynching

chapter 24|5 pages

My View of Segregation Laws

part II|2 pages

W.E.B. Du Bois

chapter 4|3 pages

The Evolution of Negro Leadership

chapter 5|3 pages

The Parting of the Ways

chapter 7|4 pages

Declaration of Principles

chapter 9|1 pages

A Philosophy for 1913

chapter 12|2 pages

Close Ranks

chapter 14|3 pages

White Co-workers

chapter 15|8 pages

Marcus Garvey

chapter 16|2 pages

A Lunatic or a Traitor

chapter 17|5 pages

The Tragedy of "Jim Crow"

chapter 18|3 pages

The New Crisis

chapter 19|6 pages

Race Relations in the United States

chapter 20|1 pages

Economic Disfranchisement

chapter 21|6 pages

Marxism and the Negro Problem

chapter 22|3 pages

Pan-Africa and New Racial Philosophy

chapter 23|2 pages

Segregation

chapter 24|2 pages

The Board of Directors on Segregation

chapter 25|8 pages

A Negro Nation within the Nation

part III|2 pages

Marcus Garvey

chapter 1|9 pages

The Negro's Greatest Enemy

chapter 3|3 pages

West Indies in the Mirror of Truth

chapter 11|5 pages

Motive of the NAACP Exposed

chapter 13|4 pages

What We Believe

part IV|2 pages

A. Philip Randolph

chapter 1|8 pages

The Negro in Politics

chapter 3|2 pages

New Leadership for the Negro

chapter 4|5 pages

The Crisis of the Crisis

chapter 6|3 pages

The Negro Radicals

chapter 7|3 pages

The New Negro—What Is He?

chapter 8|1 pages

Garvey Unfairly Attacked

chapter 9|2 pages

Marcus Garvey!

chapter 10|8 pages

Reply to Marcus Garvey

chapter 11|5 pages

The State of the Race

chapter 13|2 pages

Jim Crow Niggers

chapter 14|1 pages

Negroes and the Labor Movement

chapter 15|5 pages

The Negro and Economic Radicalism

chapter 16|3 pages

The New Pullman Porter

chapter 17|8 pages

The Negro Faces the Future

chapter 18|1 pages

The Need of a Labor Background

chapter 19|2 pages

Hating All White People

chapter 20|2 pages

Negro Congressmen

chapter 21|1 pages

Consumers' Co-operation

chapter 22|10 pages

The Economic Crisis of the Negro