The Black Americans : a history in their own words, 1619-1983

Meltzer, Milton, 1915-2009 (Added Author).

Summary:

A history of Black people in the United States, as told through letters, speeches, articles, eyewitness accounts, and other documents.

Contents:

I saw a slave slip
Freedom's journal
Walker's appeal
Nat Turner's revolt
Picking cotton
Slavery days
The ABC's
Why am I a slave?
A kidnapping
A slave sale
Christmas on the plantation
On the underground railroad
A refusal to pay taxes
Let him come and take me
What is your fourth of July to me?
Is money the answer?
Could I die in a more noble cause?
Men of color, to arms!
It was a glorious day!
A letter from the front
To my old master
When freedom come
From Memphis to New Orleans
I shall not beg for my rights
His crime was his color
KKK
We did not discriminate
I had reached the promised land
Justice demands it
You all must live agreeable
Exodus
Cast down your bucket where you are
I want equality
nothing less!
A happy set of people
No cowards or trucklers
Mob law in Lincoln's state
My soul is full of color
I want to get out
My first lesson
The one-room kitchenette
We return
fighting!
Black men, you shall be great again
The right to a home
Free within ourselves
This is me! I'm somebody!
Just hanging on
No rent money
Ain't make nothing, don't speck nothing
We gonna make this a union town yet!
March on Washington
Bus boycott
Oh brothers, if you only knew
Tell about Mississippi
Ain't gonna let nobody turn me 'round
Don't nobody tell me to keep quiet
That is all there is, it's the work!
Troubled on every side.

Item details

ISBN: 9780690044188 (lib. bdg.)
ISBN: 0690044186 (lib. bdg.)
ISBN: 9780690044195
ISBN: 0690044194
Physical Description: x, 306 p. : ports ; 24 cm.
print
Publisher: New York : T.Y. Crowell, c1984.

Contents / Notes

General Note:	Includes index.
Bibliography, etc. Note:	Bibliography: p. [295]-296.
Formatted Contents Note:	I saw a slave slip Freedom's journal Walker's appeal Nat Turner's revolt Picking cotton Slavery days The ABC's Why am I a slave? A kidnapping A slave sale Christmas on the plantation On the underground railroad A refusal to pay taxes Let him come and take me What is your fourth of July to me? Is money the answer? Could I die in a more noble cause? Men of color, to arms! It was a glorious day! A letter from the front To my old master When freedom come From Memphis to New Orleans I shall not beg for my rights His crime was his color KKK We did not discriminate I had reached the promised land Justice demands it You all must live agreeable Exodus Cast down your bucket where you are I want equality nothing less! A happy set of people No cowards or trucklers Mob law in Lincoln's state My soul is full of color I want to get out My first lesson The one-room kitchenette We return fighting! Black men, you shall be great again The right to a home Free within ourselves This is me! I'm somebody! Just hanging on No rent money Ain't make nothing, don't speck nothing We gonna make this a union town yet! March on Washington Bus boycott Oh brothers, if you only knew Tell about Mississippi Ain't gonna let nobody turn me 'round Don't nobody tell me to keep quiet That is all there is, it's the work! Troubled on every side.

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