Enter the New Negro
Alain Locke, “Enter the New Negro,” Survey Graphic (March 1925), 631–634. Available at https://umedia.lib.umn.edu/item/p16022coll336:2133/p16022coll336:2037?child_index=8&query=&sidebar_page=3. In the last decade something beyond the watch and guard of statistics has happened in the […]
Some Notes on Color
Jessie Fauset, “Some Notes on Color,” The World Tomorrow (March 1922), 76–77. Available at https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=hvd.ah6h7m&view=1up&seq=82. A distinguished novelist said to me not long ago: “I think you colored people1 make […]
Introduction to an Essay on Robert H. Jackson’s Influence on Federal-State Relationships
Source: Charles S. Desmond, Paul A. Freund, Justice Potter Stewart, and Lord Shawcross, Mr. Justice Jackson: Four Lectures in His Honor (New York: Columbia University Press, 1969), 58–60, https://www.roberthjackson.org/speech-and-writing/mr-justice-jackson/. … […]
Resolutions Adopted by the Hartford Convention
Source: Public Documents: Containing Proceedings of the Hartford Convention of Delegates … , Published by order of the [Massachusetts] Senate, 1815, 3, 9, 12, 13, 14–15, 20–21, https://www.google.com/books/edition/Public_Documents/NLtEAAAAIAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=0. The delegates […]
Federalist 46
Source: “The Federalist Number 46, [29 January] 1788,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Madison/01-10-02-0261. Resuming the subject of the last paper I proceed to inquire whether the federal government or the […]
Federalist 45
Source: “The Federalist Number 45, [26 January] 1788,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Madison/01-10-02-0254. … Several important considerations have been touched in the course of these papers, which discountenance the supposition […]
Federalist 39
Source: “The Federalist Number 39, [16 January] 1788,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Madison/01-10-02-0234. … But it was not sufficient, say the adversaries of the proposed constitution, for the convention to […]
“Political Independence of the Negro”
In addressing myself to a consideration of the subject: “The colored man as an Independent Force in our Politics,” I come at once to one of the vital principles underlying […]
“Is the Negro Having a Fair Chance?”
IF I were asked the simple, direct question, “Does the negro in America have a fair chance?” it would be easy to answer simply, “No,” and then refer to instances […]
The Black Man and the Unions
I am among the few colored men who have tried conscientiously to bring about understanding and co-operation between American Negroes and the Labor Unions. I have sought to look upon […]