Part I. Slavery, survival, and community building / Kidada E. Williams
"An address to the slaves of the United States" / Henry Highland Garnet
From life and adventures of Charles Ball / Charles Ball
From incidents in the life of a slave girl / Harriet Jacobs
"Roll Jordan roll" / adapted by Nicholas Britell
"I've been in the storm so long"
"Before Charleston's church shooting, a long history of attacks" / Douglas R. Egerton
"The first attack on Charleston's AME Church" / Maurie McInnis
From "sweet dreams of freedom': freedwomen's reconstruction of life and labor in lowcountry South Carolina" / Leslie Schwalm
From soul by soul: life inside the antebellum slave market / Walter Johnson
From saltwater slavery: a middle passage from Africa to American diaspora / Stephanie E. Smallwood
From in the shadow of slavery: African Americans in New York City, 1626-1863 / Leslie M. Harris
Part II. Religious life, spirituality, and racial identity / Keisha N. Blain
From religious experience and journal of Mrs. Jarena Lee, giving an account of her call to preach the gospel / Jarena Lee
"Amazing grace" / John Newton
"Love and terror in the Black church" / Michael Eric Dyson
"The long and proud history of Charleston's AME Church" / Manisha Sinha
"The condition of Black life is one of mourning" / Claudia Rankine
From African American religion: a very short introduction / Eddie S. Glaude
From "bitter herbs and a lock of hair: recollections of Africa in slave narratives of the Garrisonian era" / Jermaine O. Archer
From Islam in Black America: identity, liberation, and difference in African American Islamic thought / Edward Curtis
From God's long summer: stories of faith and civil rights / Charles Marsh
From songs of Zion: the African Methodist Episcopal Church in the United States and South Africa / James Campbell
Part III. The Civil War and Reconstruction in history and memory / Kidada E. Williams
"The Civil Rights Bill": extracts from a speech delivered in the House of Representatives / Robert Brown Elliot
"Declaration of the immediate causes which induce and justify the secession of South Carolina from the federal union"
From "The Constitution of the Confederate States" / with annotations by Stephanie McCurry
"Corner stone speech" / Alexander H. Stephens
"No more auction block for me" / Gustavus D. Pike
From "A second Haitian revolution: John Brown, Toussaint Louverture, and the making of the American Civil War" / Matthew Clavin
From Black over White: Negro political leadership in South Carolina during Reconstruction / Thomas C. Holt
From to joy my freedom: southern Black womens' lives and labors after the Civil War / Tera W. Hunter
From Confederate reckoning: power and politics in the Civil War south / Stephanie McCurry
From terror in the heart of freedom: citizenship, sexual violence, and the meaning of race in the post-emancipation south / Hannah Rosen
Part IV. Jim Crow, racial politics, and global White supremacy / Kidada E. Williams
From Plessy v. Ferguson / Supreme Court of the United States (163 U.S. 537)
From "Declaration of the rights of the Negro peoples of the world: the principles of the Universal Negro Improvement Association" / Marcus Garvey and the UNIA
"Call to the march" / Asa Philip Randolph
From "The souls of White folk" / W.E.B. Du Bois
From a red record / Ida B. Wells-Barnett
"If we must die" / Claude McKay
"Strange fruit" / Abel Meeropol and Billie Holliday
"Rhodesian flag, Confederate flag: roof and the legacies of racial hate" / Benjamin Foldy
From southern horrors: women and the politics of rape and lynching / Crystal N. Feimster
From "We are not what we seem': rethinking Black working-class opposition in the Jim Crow south" / Robin D.G. Kelley
From "to speak when and where I can': African American women's political activism in South Carolina in the 1940s and 1950s" / Cherisse Jones-Branch
From the possessive investment in whiteness: how White people profit from identity politics / George Lipsitz
"Blackness beyond boundaries': navigating the political economies of global inequality" / Manning Marable
Part V. Civil rights and Black power / Chad Williams
"Testimony before the Credentials Committee, Democratic National Convention, Atlantic City, New Jersey" / Fannie Lou Hamer
"Mississippi Goddam" / Nina Simone
Gary declaration: Black politics at the crossroads" / National Black Political Convention
"Is it time to reevaluate the church's role in the civil rights movement?" / Robin Blake
"More than a seat on the bus" / Danielle McGuire
From "Joanne is you and Joanne is me': a consideration of african american women and the 'free joan little' movement, 1974-75" / Genna Rae McNeil
From "could history repeat itself? the prospects for a second reconstruction in post-World War II South Carolina" / Robert Korstad
From up south: civil rights and Black power in Philadelphia / Matthew Countryman
From we will shoot back: armed resistance in the Mississippi freedom movement / Akinyele Umoja
Part VI. Contemporary perspectives on race and racial violence / Chad Williams
"Remarks by the president in eulogy for the honorable Reverend Clementa Pinckney, College of Charleston, Charleston, South Carolina" / Barack Obama
"The blacker the berry" / Kendrick Lamar
From "Investigation of the Ferguson Police Department" / United States Department of Justice Civil Rights Division
"Speech on Walter Scott shooting" / Clementa Pinckney
"Black bodies, White terrorism: a global reimagining of forgiveness" / Esther Armah
"Ella taught me: shattering the myth of the leaderless movement" / Barbara Ransby
"On the pole for freedom: Bree Newsome's politics, theory, and theology of resistance" / Brittney Cooper
From hate thy neighbor: move in violence and the persistence of racial segregation in housing / Jeannine Bell
From Charleston in Black and White: race and power in the south after the civil rights movement / Steve Estes
From not even past: Barack Obama and the burden of race / Thomas Sugrue
From "African American women, mass incarceration, and the politics of protection" / Kali Nicole Gross.
