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These truly are the brave : an anthology of African American writings on war and citizenship /

This anthology gathers a large set of writings to document the variety and richness of African American perspectives on war and citizenship from the colonial period to the present day.

Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Jimoh, A. Yemisi, 1957- (Author), Hamlin, Françoise N. (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Gainesville : University Press of Florida, [2015]
Subjects:
American literature > African American authors.
African Americans > Literary collections.
African Americans > History.
War.
Citizenship.
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: These truly are the brave
  • Part 1. Freedom, democracy, and equality? From colonies to a nation divided
  • From "Colored men have their rights that white men are bound to respect" (1863) / Alexander T. Augusta
  • From a poem entitled, The Day and the War (1864) / James Madison Bell
  • My hero (To Robert Gould Shaw) (1915) / Benjamin Griffith Brawley
  • From Clotelle; or the colored heroine (1867) / William Wells Brown
  • Crispus attucks (1899) / Olivia Ward Bush-Banks
  • "I look forward to a brighter day" (1863) / Samuel Cabble
  • "What country have I?" (1847) ; The War with Mexico (1848) ; Peace! Peace! Peace! (1848) ; Fellow citizens: On slavery and the Fourth of July (1852) ; From How to End the War (1861) / Frederick Douglass
  • "If I die tonight I will not die a coward" (1863) / Lewis Henry Douglass
  • Black Samson of Brandywine (1903) ; The Colored Soldiers (1895) ; Robert Gould Shaw (1900) ; Lincoln (1903) / Paul Laurence Dunbar
  • Life at sea during the French and Indian War (Seven Years? War) (1789) / Olaudah Equiano [Gustavus Vassa]
  • From Letters from a man of colour on a late bill before the Senate of Pennsylvania (1813) / James Forten
  • "True manhood has no limitations of color" (1864) / Charlotte Forten Grimké
  • My country (1834) / Sarah Louisa Forten Purvis
  • Frederick Douglass speaks before the Anti-Mexican War Abolitionists (2006) ; South of Houston (2006) / Vievee Francis
  • Black abolitionists declare rights to revolutionary freedom (1777) / Freedom petition to the Massachusetts Council and House of Representatives
  • From an address to the slaves of the United States of America (1843) / Henry Highland Garnet
  • It's morning (1940) / Shirley Graham Du Bois
  • An appeal to my countrywomen (1871) / Frances Ellen Watkins Harper
  • Jefferson in a tight place (1865) / George Moses Horton
  • De Ol' Sojer (1916) / Fenton Johnson
  • From "Freedom and fear fighting for the Loyalists" (1798) / Boston King
  • Memorial wreath (1962) / Dudley Randall
  • Robert G. Shaw (1910) / Henrietta Cordelia Ray
  • The reason why (1887) / George Clinton Rowe
  • Ethiopia's dead (1865) / Sarah E. Shuften
  • Song of the "Aliened American" (1852) / Joshua McCarter Simpson
  • Commandeering freedom: Robert Smalls pilots the Confederate ship Planter (1864) / Robert Smalls
  • "How dare I be offered half the pay of any man, be he white or red?" (1864) / George E. Stephens
  • A nurse for the 33rd USCT (1902) / Susie Baker King Taylor
  • Bars fight (1855) / Lucy Terry Prince
  • Elegy for the Native Guards (2006) / Natasha Trethewey
  • The Fifty-Fourth at Wagner (1883) / James Monroe Trotter
  • The valiant soldiers (1878) / Sojourner Truth-- From Walker's appeal, in four articles: Together with a preamble to the coloured citizens of the world, but in particular, and very expressly, to those of the United States of America (1829) / David Walker
  • Letter accompanying a poem to General George Washington (1776) ; His Excellency Gen. Washington (1776) ; On the death of General Wooster (1980) ; Liberty and peace, a poem (1784) / Phillis Wheatley
  • America (1853) / James Monroe Whitfield-- From Hymn to the nation (1877) ; From The end of the whole matter (1877) ; From Twasinta's Seminoles; or, Rape of Florida (1884) / Albery Allson Whitman
  • 1812 (1972) / John A. Williams
  • Part 2. The United States enters the global stage: Empire, worldwide war, and democracy
  • The negro should not enter the army (1899) / A.M.E. Church: Voice of Missions
  • "We don't want these islands" (1900) / A black soldier in the Philippine Islands
  • Lines (1899) / Samuel Alfred Beadle
  • Aftermath: a one-act play of negro life (1919) / Mary Burrill
  • A hero of San Juan (1899) / Olivia Ward Bush-Banks
  • Acquit yourselves like men: An address to colored soldiers at Grays Armory, Cleveland, Ohio (1917) / Charles Waddell Chesnutt
  • Moloch (1921) / Joseph Seamon Cotter Jr.
  • From If we must die (1919) / W.A. Domingo
  • My country 'tis of thee (1907) ; Close ranks (1918) ; A philosophy in time of war (1918) ; Our special grievances (1918) ; Returning soldiers (1919) / W.E.B. Du Bois
  • The conquerors: the black troops in Cuba (1898) / Paul Laurence Dunbar
  • Mine eyes have seen (1918) ; I sit and sew (1920) / Alice Ruth Moore Dunbar-Nelson
  • A battle in the Philippines (1915) / F. Grant Gilmore
  • "The colored soldier . . . properly belongs among the bravest and most trustworthy in the land" (1899) / Presley Holliday
  • The negro soldiers (1917) / Roscoe Conkling Jamison
  • The new day (1919) / Fenton Johnson
  • To America (1917) / James Weldon Johnson
  • 'Cruiter (1927) / John F. Matheus
  • If we must die (1919) / Claude McKay
  • Address to the Country (1906) / Niagara Movement
  • From The failure of Negro leadership (1918) / Chandler Owen
  • The Wife-Woman (1922) / Anne Bethel Spencer
  • A legend of Versailles (1944) / Melvin Beaunorus Tolson Sr.
  • The negro soldiers of America: What we are fighting for (1918) / Lucian Bottow Watkins
  • Part 3. The Double-V Campaign challenges Jim Crow: World War II
  • "Local prejudice, or an official order from Washington" (1982) / Aeron D. Bells
  • Negro Hero (1945) ; The white troops had their orders but the Negroes looked like men (1945) / Gwendolyn Brooks
  • Guilty (1948) / Ruby Berkley Goodwin
  • Tar (1945) / Shirley Graham Du Bois
  • Beaumont to Detroit: 1943 (1943) / Langston Hughes
  • Black recruit (1948) / Georgia Douglas Johnson
  • War memoir: jazz, Don't listen to it at your own risk (1981) / Bob Kaufman
  • Negro mother to her soldier son (1943) / Cora Ball Moten
  • In darkness and confusion (1947) / Ann Lane Petry
  • "We'd rather die on our knees as a man, than to live in this world as a slave" (1943) / Soldiers at Ft. Logan, Colorado
  • "An honor to be in the Army and be black, too. We were the beginning." (2004) / Gladys O. Thomas-Anderson
  • Valaida (1989) / John Edgar Wideman
  • Heart against the wind (1944) / Gwendolyn Williams
  • Part 4. Battles at home and abroad from Montgomery to Afghanistan
  • From The black woman in the Civil Rights Struggle (1969)/ Ella Baker
  • My dungeon shook: letter to my nephew on the one hundredth anniversary of the emancipation (1962) / James Baldwin
  • The sea birds are still alive (1977) / Toni Cade Bambara
  • From Somebody blew up America (2001) / Amiri Baraka
  • "We were pioneers" (2004) / Julius W. Becton Jr.
  • I too, hear America singing (1960) / Julian Bond
  • From September song: a poem in 7 days (2002) / Lucille Clifton
  • Liars don't qualify (1961) / Junius Edwards
  • American history (1970) / Michael S. Harper
  • "I was sworn into the Army in manacles" (1984) / Robert E. Holcomb
  • "Uncle Sam didn't do much for me. I am proud of my service." (2004) / Stephen Hopkins
  • God Bless America (1952) / John Oliver Killens
  • Strange liberators: A speech at Riverside Church, 4 April 1967 (1967) / Martin Luther King Jr.
  • Re-creating the scene (1988) ; The one-legged stool (1988) / Yusef Komunyakaa
  • From Mymerica (2006) / Allia Abdullah Matta
  • "Pray 4 a quick ending to this" (2004) / Eric Mitchell
  • "Everything about war was horrible" (2004) / Janet Pennick
  • "I asked to go to Vietnam" (2004) / Marie Rodgers
  • From Reflections after the June 12th March for Disarmament (1984) / Sonia Sanchez
  • 'Nam (1972) / John A. Williams.