Philip S. Foner. Essays in Afro-American History.

Contents

Introduction

1 – A Plea Against Reenslavement

2 – The Two Trials of John Read: A Fugitive Slave Who Resisted Reenslavement

3 – The Battle to End Discrimination Against Negroes on Philadelphia Streetcars: (Part I) Background and Beginning of the Battle

4 – The Battle to End Discrimination Against Negroes on the Philadelphia Streetcars: (Part II) The Victory

5 – Blacks and the Labor Movement in Pennsylvania: The Beginnings

6 – William P. Powell: Militant Champion of Black Seamen

7 – A Labor Voice for Black Equality: The Boston Daily Evening Voice, 1864-1867

8 – Black Participation in the Centennial of 1876

9 – Peter H. Clark: Pioneer Black Socialist

10 – Reverend George Washington Woodbey: Early Twentieth-Century California Black Socialist

11 – The IWW and the Black Worker