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Black Power
- Booker T. Washington (1856-1915): Speech at the
Atlanta Exposition, 1895
- Booker T. Washington (1856-1915): The Awakening of the
Negro, The Atlantic Monthly, September 1896 [At The Atlantic, subscription required]
- Booker T. Washington (1856-1915): The Case of the Negro, The Atlantic Monthly, November 1889, [At The Atlantic, subscription required]
- Booker T. Washington: The Case of the Negro,
1899 [At Hanover]
- Booker T. Washington (1856-1915): Atlanta Exposition Address,
from Up From Slavery, 1895 [At Alcyone]
-
Booker T. Washington (1856-1915): Up From Slavery [At
Project Gutenberg] or HTML Version [At Alcyone]
- W. E. Burghardt Du Bois: Strivings of the
Negro People, The Atlantic Monthly, August 1897, [At The Atlantic, subscription required]
- W. E. B. Du Bois: A Negro
Schoolmaster in the New South, The Atlantic Monthly, January 1889, [At The
Atlantic, subscription required]
Du Bois recounts some of his own experiences as a rural schoolteacher in Tennessee, and
expresses frustration at the barriers that confronted some of his more ambitious students.
- W. E. B. Du Bois: Of the Training of
Black Men, The Atlantic Monthly, September 1902 [At The Atlantic, subscription required]
His response to Booker T Washington's approach.
- Ralph McGill: Interview
with W.E.B Dubois, The Atlantic Monthly, June 1977, [At The Atlantic, subscription required]
-
W.E.B. DuBois: The Souls of
Black Folk, 1903 [At Project Gutenberg][Full Text] and
here [At Bartleby]
- The US Civil Rights Movement
- Brown v. Board of Education, 1954, excerpts [At this Site]
-
James Baldwin: A Letter to my
Nephew on the One Hundredth Anniversary of the Emancipation, 1963 [At Then Again]
- Martin Luther King, Jr. (1929-1968): The Negro is Your Brother,
Letter from a Birmingham Jail, The Atlantic Monthly, August 1963, [At The
Atlantic, subscription required]
- Martin Luther King Jr.: Letter From A Birmingham
Jail, April 16, 1963 [At Hanover] or
here [At
Historical Text Archive]
- Martin Luther King Jr.: "I
have a dream" speech - August 28, 1963 [At The American Revolution Site] or here [At Eserver]
-
Martin Luther King Jr.: "I Have a Dream",
1963 (introduction) [At USInfo]
- George Wallace: The Civil Rights Movement: Fraud Sham and
Hoax,, July 5, 1964 [At this Site]
- Robert F. Kennedy: Speech on the Death of Martin Luther King,,
April 4, 1968 [At this Site]
- Radical
- Since 1968
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Other Ethnic/Minority
Movements
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Lesbian and Gay Rights
-
WEBSee People With a
History: Online Guide to LGBT History
- WEB The Letter Wars
A real series of letters, which reads better than a novel.
- Homosexuals in
Government, 1950. [At UPenn]
A brief, but very explicit, excerpt from the U.S. Congressional Record vol 96, part 4
[81st Congress 2nd Session March 29 -- April 24, 1950]
- Jerry Lisker, Homo
Nest Raided: Queen Bees are Stinging. Daily News (New York), July 6, 1969 [At CMU],
Account of Stonewall riots in the Daily News. New York Daily News. See also Robert Amsel: A Walk on the
Wild Side, from The Advocate, 1987 [At CMU]
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Gay Liberation Front (London): Manifesto,
1971 (rev. 1979) [At PWH]
- Manifesto of First Chinese
Tongzhi Conference, 1996 [At HKGAY]
Tongzhi is being used in Chinese for Gay. This manifesto directly asserts a
historical basis for modern Chinese homosexuals and the differences of Chinese Tongzhi
movements with western gay movements.
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