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Books by Du Bois
The
Suppression of the African
Slave Trade (1896) /
The
Philadelphia Negro: A Social Study (1899) /
The
Souls of Black Folk:
Essays and Sketches
(1903) /
John
Brown.(1909)
The
Quest of the Silver Fleece
(1911) /
Darkwater:
Voices Within the Veil
(1920)
Gift of Black Folk: The Negroes in the Making
of America (1924) /
Dark Princess: A Romance
(1928)
Black Reconstruction in America
(1935) /
Black Folk, Then and Now
(1939)
Color and Democracy: Colonies and Peace
(1945) /
The World and Africa: An Inquiry
(1947) /
In Battle for Peace
(1952)
A Trilogy:
The Ordeal of Monsart
(1957)
Monsart Builds
a School (1959) nd
Worlds of Color (1961)
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An ABC of Color:
Selections (1963)
The
Autobiography of W.E.B. Du Bois: A Soliloquy on Viewing
My Life from the Last
Decade of Its First
Century
(1968)
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Shirley Graham Du Bois,
His Day Is Marching On: A Memoir of
W.E. B. Du Bois (1971)
Leslie Alexander Lacy.
The Life of W.E.B. Du Bois:
Cheer the Lonesome Traveler (1970)
Du
Bois on Reform: Periodical-based
Leadership for African Americans.
Edited and Introduced by Brian Johnson. 2005 /
A Du Bois Bibliography
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THE NEGRO
CHURCH
Edited by W. E. Burghardt Du Bois, Corresponding Secretary of the Conference
The Atlanta University Press Atlanta, Ga. 1903
The Negro Church is the only social institution of
the Negroes which started in the African forest and survived
slavery; under the leadership of priest or medicine man,
afterward of the Christian pastor, the Church preserved in
itself the remnants of African tribal life and became after
emancipation the center of Negro social life. So that today the
Negro population of the United States is virtually divided into
church congregations which are the real units of race life.
Report of the Third Atlanta Conference, 1898.
CONTENTS
PREFACE . . . . .v
BIBLIOGRAPHY . . . . .vi
1. Primitive Negro Religion . . . . .1
2. Effect of Transplanting . . . . 2.
3. The Obeah Sorcery . . . . . 5
4. Slavery and Christianity . . . . .6
5. Early Restrictions . . . . . 10
6. The Society for the Propagation of the Gospel . . . .
.12
7. The Moravians, Methodists, Baptists, and Presbyterians
. . . . .15
8. The Sects and Slavery . . . . . 20
9. Toussaint
L'Ouverture and Nat Turner . . . . .22
10. Third Period of Missionary Enterprise . . . . . 26
11. The Earlier Churches and Preachers. (By Mr. John W.
Cromwell) . . . . .30
12. Some Other Ante-Bellum Preachers . . . . .35
13. The Negro Church in 1890 . . . . . 37
14. Local Studies, 1902-3 . . . . .49
15. A Black Belt County, Georgia. (By the Rev. W. H.
Holloway) . . . . . 57
16. A Town in Florida. (By Annie Marion MacLean, Ph. D.)
. . . . . 64
17. A Southern City . . . . .69
18. Virginia . . . . . 80
19. The Middle West, Illinois. (By Monroe N. Work, A. M.,
and the Editor) . . . . .83
20. The Middle West, Ohio. (By R. R. Wright, Jr.) . . . .
. 92
21. An Eastern City . . . . . 108
22. Present Condition of Churches--The Baptists . . . . .
111
23. The African Methodists . . . . .123
25. The Zion Methodists . . . . . 131
26. The Colored Methodists . . . . . 133
27. The Methodists . . . . . 134
28. The Episcopalians . . . . . 138
29. The Presbyterians . . . . . 142
30. The Congregationalists . . . . .147
31. Summary of Negro Churches, 1900-1903 . . . . . 153
32. Negro Laymen and the Church . . . . . 154
33. Southern Whites and the Negro Church . . . . .164
34. The Moral Status of Negroes . . . . . 176
35. Children and the Church . . . . . 185
36. The Training of Ministers . . . . . 190
37. Some Notable Preachers . . . . . 202
38. The Eighth Atlanta Conference . . . . .202
39. Remarks of Dr. Washington Gladden . . . . .204
40. Resolutions . . . . . 207
Index . . . . . 209
PREFACE
A study of human life to-day involves a consideration of
conditions of physical life, a study of various social
organizations, beginning with the home, and investigations into
occupations, education, religion and morality, crime and
political activity. The Atlanta Cycle of studies into the Negro
problem aims at exhaustive and periodic studies of all these
subjects so far as they relate to the American Negro. Thus far,
in the first eight years of the ten-year cycle, we have studied
physical conditions of life (Reports No. 1 and No. 2), social
organization (Reports No. 2 and No. 3), economic activity
(Reports No. 4 and No. 7), and Education (Reports No. 5 and No.
6). This year we take up the important subject of the NEGRO
CHURCH, studying the religion of Negroes and its influence on
their moral habits.
Such a study could not be made exhaustive for lack of funds
and organization. On the other hand, the United States
government and the churches themselves have published a great
deal of material and it is possible from this and limited
investigations in various typical localities to make a study of
some value.
This investigation bases its results on the following data:
United States Census of 1890.
Minutes of Conferences.
Reports of Conventions, Societies, etc.
Catalogues of Theological Schools.
Two hundred and fifty special reports from pastors and
officials.
One hundred and seventy-five special reports from colored
laymen.
One hundred and seventeen special reports from heads of
schools and prominent men, white and colored.
Fifty-four special reports from Southern white persons.
Thirteen special reports from Colored Theological
Schools.
One hundred and nine special reports from Northern
Theological Schools.
Answers from 1,300 school children.
Local studies in--
Richmond, Virginia. . . . . . Atlanta, Georgia.
Chicago, Illinois. . . . . . Greene County, Ohio.
Thomas County, Georgia. . . . . . Deland, Florida.
General and periodical literature.
In the preparation of this report the editor begs to
acknowledge his indebtedness to the several hundred persons who
have so kindly answered his inquiries; to students in Atlanta
University and Virginia Union University, who have made special
investigations; and particularly to Professor B. F. Williams,
Mr. M. N. Work, Mr. R. R. Wright, Jr., and Mr. W. H. Holloway,
all of whom have given valuable time and services to this work.
The Rev. F. J. Grimke has kindly allowed the use of his
unpublished report, made to the Hampton Conference in 1901; Mr.
J. W. Cromwell has loaned us the results of his historical
researches, and Dr. A. M. MacLean has given us the results of a
valuable local study. The proof-reading was largely done by Mr.
A. G. Dill.
Atlanta University has been conducting studies similar to
this for the past seven years. The results, distributed at a
nominal sum, have been widely used.
Notwithstanding this success the social problems that has
ever faced the Nation, for substantial aid and encouragement in
the further prosecution of these important studies is greatly
hampered by the lack of funds. With meagre appropriations for
expenses, lack of clerical help and necessary apparatus, the
Conference cannot cope properly with the vast field of work
before it.
We appeal therefore to those who think it worth while to
study this, the greatest group of further prosecution of
the work of the Atlanta Conference.
Other sources:
DocSouth
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Hands on the Freedom Plow
Personal Accounts by Women in SNCC
By
Faith S. Holsaert, Martha Prescod Norman Noonan
Judy Richardson, Betty Garman
Robinson, et al.
The book opens
a window onto the organizing tradition of the
Southern civil rights movement. That tradition,
rooted in the courage and persistence of ordinary
people, has been obscured by the characterization of
the civil rights struggle as consisting primarily of
protest marches. In rural Dawson, Ga., Carolyn
Daniels housed SNCC workers organizing for voter
registration, and whites retaliated by bombing her
home. But at the end of a vivid depiction of this
and other anti-black terrorist acts, she writes, in
an apt summary of the grass-roots organizing that is
the real explanation for civil rights victories, "We
just kept going and going." |
Organizing involved the
kind of commitment and willingness to face risk that Penny Patch
conveys in only a few short sentences describing covert
nighttime meetings in plantation sharecropper shacks. Patch is
white. But that did not lessen the fear or reduce the danger of
remaining seated while poll watching in a country store as
whites came in and out, giving her and her black co-worker
menacing stares.
Full journalistic
disclosure requires me to say that many of these women are
friends and former comrades. But knowing the movement that we
were all a part of also demands that I share my observation:
While these pages look back, looking forward from them reveals
that there are many useful lessons for today in the strength of
these women.—Charles
E. Cobb Jr.
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1493: Uncovering the New World Columbus
Created
By Charles C. Mann
I’m
a big fan of Charles Mann’s previous
book
1491:
New Revelations of the Americas Before
Columbus, in which he
provides a sweeping and provocative
examination of North and South America
prior to the arrival of Christopher
Columbus. It’s exhaustively researched
but so wonderfully written that it’s
anything but exhausting to read. With
his follow-up,
1493, Mann has taken it to a
new, truly global level. Building on the
groundbreaking work of Alfred Crosby
(author of
The Columbian Exchange and, I’m
proud to say, a fellow Nantucketer),
Mann has written nothing less than the
story of our world: how a planet of what
were once several autonomous continents
is quickly becoming a single,
“globalized” entity.
Mann not only talked to countless
scientists and researchers; he visited
the places he writes about, and as a
consequence, the book has a marvelously
wide-ranging yet personal feel as we
follow Mann from one far-flung corner of
the world to the next. And always, the
prose is masterful. In telling the
improbable story of how Spanish and
Chinese cultures collided in the
Philippines in the sixteenth century, he
takes us to the island of Mindoro whose
“southern coast consists of a number of
small bays, one next to another like
tooth marks in an apple.” We learn how
the spread of malaria, the potato,
tobacco, guano, rubber plants, and sugar
cane have disrupted and convulsed the
planet and will continue to do so until
we are finally living on one integrated
or at least close-to-integrated Earth.
Whether or not the human instigators of
all this remarkable change will survive
the process they helped to initiate more
than five hundred years ago remains,
Mann suggests in this monumental and
revelatory book, an open question. |
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The Persistence of the Color Line
Racial Politics and the Obama Presidency
By Randall Kennedy
Among the best things about
The Persistence of the Color Line
is watching Mr. Kennedy hash through the
positions about Mr. Obama staked out by
black commentators on the left and
right, from Stanley Crouch and Cornel
West to Juan Williams and Tavis Smiley.
He can be pointed. Noting the way Mr.
Smiley consistently “voiced skepticism
regarding whether blacks should back
Obama” . . .
The
finest chapter in
The Persistence of the Color Line
is so resonant, and so personal, it
could nearly be the basis for a book of
its own. That chapter is titled
“Reverend Wright and My Father:
Reflections on Blacks and Patriotism.”
Recalling some of the criticisms of
America’s past made by Mr. Obama’s
former pastor, Mr. Kennedy writes with
feeling about his own father, who put
each of his three of his children
through Princeton but who “never forgave
American society for its racist
mistreatment of him and those whom he
most loved.” His father distrusted
the police, who had frequently called
him “boy,” and rejected patriotism. Mr.
Kennedy’s father “relished Muhammad
Ali’s quip that the Vietcong had never
called him ‘nigger.’ ” The author places
his father, and Mr. Wright, in
sympathetic historical light. |
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The White Masters of the
World
From
The World and Africa, 1965
By W. E. B. Du Bois
W. E. B. Du Bois’
Arraignment and Indictment of White Civilization
(Fletcher)
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