Black Liberation And The American Dream

Paul Le Blanc is a professor of History at La Roche College. He has written on and participated in the U.S. labor, radical and civil rights movements, and is author of numerous books, including Marx, Lenin and the Revolutionary Experience and Lenin and the Revolutionary Party.

“A timely weapon in the fight against racism.”—Chris Clement, Against the Current

• Preface PART ONE1. Reaching for the American dream 2. Confronting racism in society ... and in ourselves 3. Understanding racism 4. The history of racism and anti-racism 5. Overcoming racism 6. Practical steps SourcesPART TWO: READINGSI. Pioneers in the Struggle for African American Liberation1. Frederick Douglass #2. Martin Delaney 3. Sojourner Truth 4. Harriet Tubman 5. Ida B. Wells-Barnett 6. Booker T. Washington 7. W.E.B. Du Bois 8. Marcus Garvey 9. A. Philip Randolph 10. Paul Robeson 11. Bayard Rustin 12. Ella Baker II. Dimensions of the Black Struggle1. W.E.B. Du Bois2. Malcolm X 3. Martin Luther King, Jr. 4. Septima Clark 5. Ella Baker 6. Vincent Harding 7. Adolph Reed, Jr. III. The U.S. Left and Anti-racism 1. Alan Wald 2. C.L.R. James 3. Steve Bloom and David Finkel4. A. Philip Randolph Institute 5. Amiri Baraka 6. Black Panther Party 7. League of Revolutionary Black Workers 8. Angela Y. Davis IV. Intersections of Race, Ethnicity, Class and Gender1. Audre Lorde 2. David Rodiger 3. June Jordan 4. Alice Walker 5. Ronald Takaki 6. Manning Marable 7. Saladin Muhammad