Time longer than rope a century of African American activism, 1850-1950 / edited by Charles M. Payne and Adam Green.

Other author Payne, Charles M.
Other author Green, Adam, 1963-
Format Book
Publication InfoNew York : New York University Press, ©2003.
Descriptionvii, 584 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Subjects
African Americans--Civil rights. --Southern States. --History. --19th century.
African Americans--Civil rights. --Southern States. --History. --20th century.
African Americans--Social conditions. --To 1964.
African American political activists--Southern States. --History.
African American civil rights workers--Southern States. --History.
Civil rights movements--Southern States. --History. --19th century.
Civil rights movements--Southern States. --History. --20th century.
Southern States--Race relations.
Southern States--History. --1865-1951.

Contents Slave labor camps in early America / Peter H. Wood -- Abraham H. Galloway / David S. Cecelski -- Negotiating and transforming the public sphere / Elsa Barkley Brown -- "Liberty dearly bought" / Thavolia Glymph -- The new Negro in the American Congo / Nan Elizabeth Woodruff -- Intellectual pan-African feminists / Ula Y. Taylor -- "Eat your bread without butter, but pay your poll tax!" / Paul Ortiz -- "With the aid of God and the F.S.A." / Greta de Jong -- Beyond the "talented tenth" / Brian Kelly -- The power of remembering / Michael Honey -- Being red and black in Jim Crow America / Winston James -- Building interracial democracy / Tracy E. K'Meyer -- "A bland, scholarly, teetotaling sort of man" / Caroline Emmons -- Leading the civil rights vanguard in South Carolina / Wim Roefs -- A marble house divided / Scott A. Sandage -- "We men ain't we" / Charise Cheney.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
LCCN 2003009492
ISBN0814767028 (cloth : alk. paper)
ISBN0814767036 (pbk. : alk. paper)