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Defining Documents in American History: The Great Migration

Table of Contents

Volume 1



Publisher’s Note


Editor’s Introduction


Contributors


Full Table of Contents


The First Wave of Migration in Context


Guinn v. United States


The East St. Louis Riot and Congressional Investigation


Negro Migration in 1916-1917


The Black Migrant: Housing and Employment


No Negroes Allowed


Chicago Race Riots


“The Opportunity of Negro Labor”


“If We Must Die”


NAACP: Thirty Years of Lynching in the United States


Elaine, Arkansas, Massacre Commemoration


“Redlining” Map of Syracuse, New York


“The Eruption of Tulsa”


Marcus Garvey on “Back to Africa”


The Klansman’s Manual


The “New Negro”


“The Negro Artist and the Racial Mountain”


From Race Relations: Adjustments of Whites and Negroes in the United States


“A Black Inventory of the New Deal”


Plea from a Scottsboro Boy


The Second Wave of Migration in Context


The Negro Motorist Green Book


Executive Order 8802—Fair Employment Practice in Defense Industries


From Dust Tracks on a Road


Morgan v. Virginia (1946)


Jackie Robinson Breaks the Color Code in Baseball


Report of the President’s Committee on Civil Rights


Shelley v. Kraemer (1948)


Executive Order 9981


From Invisible Man


Brown v. Board of Education


Memo regarding the Emmett Till Murder


Cooper v. Aaron


Volume 2



The Second Wave of Migration in Context



George Wallace: “Segregation Now, Segregation Tomorrow, and Segregation Forever”


FBI Documents Relating to 16th Street Church Bombing


Heart of Atlanta Motel, Inc. v. United States


Speech before Congress on Voting Rights


President’s Remarks on the Launching of Project Head Start


The Watts Riot Considered


From Manchild in the Promised Land


Loving v. Virginia


Report of the National Advisory Commission on Civil Disorders (Kerner Commission)


Internal Migration Statistics, 1870-1970


Postmigration Decades


Shirley Chisholm: “The Black Woman in Contemporary America”


Boston Busing Case—Morgan v. Hennigan


Regents of the University of California v. Bakke


Jesse Jackson’s “Rainbow Coalition” Address at the 1984 Democratic National Convention


City of Richmond v. J.A. Croson Co.


Rodney King Case


Shaw v. Reno


Adarand Constructors, Inc. v. Peña


Foreclosure in the Nation’s Capital: How Unfair and Reckless Lending Undermines Homeownership


Shelby County v. Holder


Black Lives Matter


Ferguson, Missouri, Unrest


Angela Davis: Women’s March on Washington


Barack Obama’s “A More Perfect Union” Speech


COVID-19 Brings Health Disparities Research to the Forefront


Eulogy at George Floyd’s Memorial Service


Opening Statement on Slavery Reparations before the House Judiciary Committee


Appendixes



Chronological List


Web Resources


Bibliography