The burden of race : a documentary history of Negro-white relations in America /
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New York :
Harper & Row,
[1967]
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| Edition: | [1st ed.]. |
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Table of Contents:
- Section 1. Slavery: world of sorrow, world of toil.
- 1. The slave trade
- 2. The law of bondage and its practice
- 3. Attitudes toward slavery in Colonial America
- Section 2. Pariahs: free Negroes.
- 1. Prejudice and exclusion
- 2. Urban poverty
- 3. Early-nineteenth century American racism
- 4. Negro resistance to expatriation
- 5. Judicial exclusion.
- Section 3. Conflicting ideologies: Abolitionism vs. Proslavery.
- 1. Slavery and the Bible.
- 2. Slavery and democracy.
- 3. Environmentalists and racists.
- Section 4. The unfulfilled revolution
- 1. Republicanism and the Negro.
- 2. Reconstruction
- 3. Northern attitudes toward the freemen.
- Section 5. An era of hate and violence.
- 1. Disfranchisement of the Negro.
- 2. The convict-lease system.
- 3. Rule by violence.
- 4. The literature of Negro inferiority.
- 5. The role of the Supreme Court.
- 6. The Negro stereotype.
- Section 6. Voices of protest, moderation, accommodation.
- 1. Shifting mood and tactics.
- 2. Interracial involvement
- 3. Early organizations in the South.
- Section 7. The Ghetto.
- 1. Conditions in the ghetto.
- 2. Marcus Garveys Universal Negro Improvement Association.
- 3. Racial conflict.
- 4. The revival of the Ku Klux Klan.
- 5. The Negro artists and his reception.
- Section 8. The Roosevelt Era: a time of trial, a time of hope.
- 1. The Negro poor.
- 2. Finding a way out.
- 3. The diffusion of leadership.
- 4. F.D.R. and Civil Rights.
- 5. The war years.
- Section 9. The postwar years: the spirit says do
- 1. The first steps.
- 2. Resistance and repression.
- 3. Revolution.
- 4. The Kennedy and Johnson administrations.
- 5. The Negro community in the sixties.