Publisher's Synopsis
Long before the #BlackLivesMatter movement, and even well before the Civil Rights Movement of the 1950s and 60s, African American leaders and their supporters had been eloquently giving expression to the plight of African Americans in their struggle to end racial discrimination and oppression in the United States. Assembled here is a collection of essays and stories from some of the earliest writers-Frederick Douglass, Booker T. Washington, W. E. B. Du Bois, and many others-in the birth of that movement for African Americans to secure the human rights, justice, and respect guaranteed to all people under the Constitution and the intrinsic laws of humanity.
