| Description |
1 online resource (xlii, 243 pages) |
| Series |
Eyewitness to history |
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Eyewitness to history (ABC-Clio Information Services)
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| Contents |
The new Negro mecca : Harlem. Harlem / Alain Locke (1925) -- The Black city / Eric Walrond (1924) -- The making of Harlem / James Weldon Johnson (1925) -- The city of refuge / Rudolph Fisher (1925) -- Harlem's nightlife / Wallace Thurman (1927) -- Amateur night in Harlem : "That's why darkies were born" / Dorothy West (1938) -- When Harlem was in vogue / Langston Hughes (1940) -- The new Negro : a new time, a new people. Lift every voice and sing / James Weldon Johnson (1900) -- A new Negro for a new century / Booker T. Washington et al. (1900) -- The souls of Black folk ; Possibilities of the Negro : the advance guard of the race / W.E.B. Du Bois (1903) Public opinion and the Negro / Charles S. Johnson (1923) -- The new Negro faces America / Eric Walrond (1923) -- Enter the new Negro / Alain Locke (1925) -- Who is the new Negro, and why? / J.A. Rogers (1927) -- The new Negro at war. Plea of the Negro soldier / Charles F. White (1907) -- Her thirteen Black soldiers / Archibald H. Grimké (1917) -- Close ranks / W.E.B. Du Bois (1918) -- Du Bois, one-time radical leader deserts and betrays cause of his race / William Monroe Trotter (1918) -- A Negro woman to her adopted soldier boy / Florence Lewis Bentley (1918) -- The American Negro in the world war / Emmett J. Scott (1919) -- Returning soldiers / W.E.B. Du Bois (1919) -- The colored soldier / Langston Hughes (1919) -- Two Americans / Florence Lewis Bentley (1921) -- The Black draftee from Dixie / Carrie Williams Clifford (1922) -- The new Negro on the move. Bound for the promised land Chicago defender (1916) -- Is migration a panacea? / Cleveland advocate (1920) -- How much is the migration a flight from persecution? / Charles S. Johnson (1923) -- Cotton song / Jean Toomer (1923) -- Northboun' / Ariel Williams (1927) -- A summer tragedy / Arna Bontemps (1933) -- The new Negro under attack. The lynching of Jube Benson / Paul Laurence Dunbar (1904) -- The south's ungolden rule / Charles F. White (1907) -- Lynching : our national crime / Ida B. Wells-Barnett (1909) -- The massacre in East St. Louis / NAACP (1917) -- Chicago and its eight reasons ; The eruption of Tulsa / Walter F. White (1921) -- The lynching / Claude McKay (1922) -- The harvest of race prejudice / Kelly Miller (1925) -- Scottsboro / Langston Hughes (1931) -- |
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The new Negro self vision. If we must die / W.A. Domingo (1919) -- If we must die / Claude McKay (1919) -- The Negro speaks of rivers / Langston Hughes (1921) -- I am a Negro / Marcus Garvey (1923) -- Vignettes of the dusk / Eric Walrond (1924) -- Heritage : what is Africa to me? / Countee Cullen (1925) -- The new Negro college and the Negro renaissance / Kelly Miller (1926) -- College / Loren R. Miller (1927) -- Africa : our challenge / Susie Wiseman Yergan (1930) -- The new Negro woman. The colored woman and her part in race regeneration / Fannie Barrier Williams (1900) -- The heart of a woman / Georgia Douglas Johnson (1918) -- This must not be / Carita Owens Collins (1919) -- A letter to the editor / A southern colored woman (1919) -- On being young, a woman, and colored / Marita Bonner (1925) -- Passing / Nella Larsen (1929) -- The new Negro children. The true brownies / W.E.B. Du Bois (1919) -- Emmy / Jessie Redmon Fauset (1912) -- The fairy good Willa / Minnibelle Jones (1914) -- A fairy story / Carry S. Bond (1919) -- GYP : a fairy story / A.T. Kilpatrick (1921) -- The judge / Jessie Redmon Fauset (1921) -- Drenched in light / Zora Neale Hurston (1924) -- To a dark girl / Gwendolyn B. Bennett (1927) -- The new Negro aesthetics. The hope of the Negro drama / Willis Richardson (1919) -- Negro art / Mary White Ovington (1921) -- The Negro digs up his past / Arthur A. Schomburg (1925) -- Criteria of Negro art / W.E.B. Du Bois (1926) -- Art or propaganda? / Alain Locke (1928) -- A brown aesthete speaks / Unsigned (1928) -- The Negro artist and modern art / Romare Bearden (1934) |
| Summary |
"This book explores the transformative energy and excitement that African Americans expressed in aesthetic and civic currents that percolated the opening of the 20th century and proved a force in the modernization of America."-- Provided by publisher |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (ProQuest Ebook Central, viewed November 28, 2022) |
| Subject |
African Americans -- Race identity -- History -- 20th century -- Sources
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Harlem Renaissance -- Sources
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African American intellectuals -- History -- 20th century
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African Americans -- Social conditions -- To 1964.
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African American intellectuals
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African Americans -- Race identity
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African Americans -- Social conditions
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Harlem Renaissance
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Race relations
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| SUBJECT |
United States -- Race relations -- History -- 20th century -- Sources
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| Subject |
United States
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| Genre/Form |
History
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Sources
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Davis, Thomas J. (Thomas Joseph), editor.
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Brock, Brenda M., editor.
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| LC no. |
2020019077 |
| ISBN |
9781440855573 |
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1440855579 |
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