Freedom on My Mind: The Columbia Documentary History of the African American Experience Book

	Introduction
Ch. 1	Women and Gender	3
1	Selected Speeches	5
2	The Jealous Mistress	9
3	Womanhood: A Vital Element in the Regeneration and Progress of a Race	15
4	The Damnation of Women	32
5	Women's Most Serious Problem	47
6	On Being Young - A Woman - and Colored	52
7	A Century of Progress of Negro Women	58
8	To All Black Women, from All Black Men	63
9	Double Jeopardy: To Be Black and Female	69
10	Feminism and Black Liberation	79
11	The Approaching Obsolescence of Housework	85
12	Statement of Anita Hill to the Senate Judiciary Committee, October 11, 1991	103
13	Establishing Black Feminism	110
14	Toward a Black Feminist Liberation Agenda: Race Gender and Violence	116
Ch. 2	Kinship and Community	127
1	Kidnappers!	129
2	To His Son, 2/2/1850	132
3	Childhood	135
4	For My People	144
5	Untitled Excerpt from Writings About her Childhood	147
6	Notes of a Native Son	150
7	Playing Hardball	162
8	From a Black Woman to a Black Man	170
9	In My Father's House	173
10	Kwanzaa and the Ethics of Sharing: Forging Our Future in a New Era	181
Ch. 3	Imagining the Black World	189
1	Poems	191
2	Argument for Colonization	194
3	Ethiopia	198
4	West India Emancipation	201
5	The American Negro and His Fatherland	219
6	Declaration of the Rights of Negro Peoples of the World	225
7	Heritage	234
8	Writings	239
9	Letters from Abroad	251
10	Selected Essays	256
11	"The Continuity of Struggle"	270
Ch. 4	Political Leadership and Social Protest	283
1	Petitions: Petition of the Africans, Living in Boston, Felix; Anonymous Appeal to William, Earl of Dartmouth; and The Earliest Extant Negro Petition to Congress	285
2	Letter to Thomas Jefferson	294
3	Oration on the Abolition of the Slave Trade	299
4	Editorial from the First Edition of Freedom's Journal	307
5	Men of Color, To Arms!	312
6	Speech to the Georgia Legislature	316
7	Letter of Nimrod Rowley to Abraham Lincoln, August 1864	321
8	An Address Delivered at the Centennial Anniversary of the Pennsylvania Society for Promoting the Abolition of Slavery	324
9	Letter to the Editor of the Birmingham Age-Herald	329
10	Of Mr. Booker T. Washington and Others	332
11	Selected Poems	343
12	Letter from a Birmingham Jail	347
13	From Protest to Politics	363
14	The Business of America is War, and It Is Time for a Change	368
15	The Struggle Continues	372
Ch. 5	In Pursuit of Justice	383
1	Speech on the Fugitive Slave Bill	385
2	Hannah Johnson to Abraham Lincoln, July 31, 1863	390
3	Sojourner Truth: Extracts from Her Lecture on Capital Punishment	393
4	Lynch Law in All Its Phases	396
5	Songs of the Prison Plantation	412
6	The Lynching	418
7	Freedom Songs	420
8	To Praise Our Bridges	424
9	The Resistant Spirit	428
10	Life In Prison	432
11	The Legacy of George Jackson	441
12	B-Block Days and Nightmares	445
Ch. 6	Work, Labor, and Economic Development	449
1	Work Songs	451
2	Industrial Education for the Negro	456
3	Harvest Song	459
4	Song to a Negro Wash-woman	462
5	Why Should We March?	465
6	Black Boy: A Record of Childhood and Youth	470
7	A Giant Step Toward Unity	482
8	All God's Dangers	487
Ch. 7	A Vision of Democracy	503
1	America	505
2	On American "Democracy" and the Negro	511
3	Negro Patriotism and Devotion	515
4	Our Democracy and the Ballot	522
5	The Shame of America	530
6	The Kind of Democracy the Negro Race Expects	546
7	Selected Poems	551
8	I, Too, Am American	559
9	The American Dream and the American Negro	563
10	Who Then Will Speak for the Common Good?	569
Ch. 8	Popular Culture	577
1	Folk Tales	579
2	The Prize Fighter, editorial in Crisis	583
3	The Negro Spirituals	586
4	The Dilemma of the Negro Author	597
5	It Don't Mean a Thing (If It Ain't Got That Swing)	605
6	High Tide in Harlem	608
7	The Revolution Will Not Be Televised	614
8	Where Are the Films About Real Black Men and Women?	617
9	The Signifying Monkey	622
10	What America Would Be Like Without Blacks	626
11	O. J. Simpson and Our Trial by Fire	633
Ch. 9	Faith and Spirituality	641
1	Spirituals	643
2	Spiritual Song	648
3	A Thanksgiving Sermon	652
4	Excerpt from Clotel	660
5	Excerpt from A Brand Plucked from the Fire	671
6	An Antebellum Sermon	677
7	Writings	681
8	Go Down Death	687
9	Faith Hasn't Got No Eyes	691
10	Salvation	695
11	The Most Durable Power	698
12	Black Theology and Black Power	701
13	The Black Church and Socialist Politics	709
14	A Torchlight for America	716
	Index	723
	Acknowledgments	729