Black Thought and Culture landmark electronic collection of
approximately 100,000 pages of non-fiction writings by major
black leaders in North America. Works by teachers, artists,
politicians, religious leaders, athletes, war veterans,
entertainers, and other figures form the corpus. The collection
encompasses 100,000 pages of materials, including letters,
speeches, prefatory essays, political leaflets, trial
transcripts, and interviews. Much of the material is fugitive,
and approximately twenty percent of the collection has not been
published previously. Subjects indexed include colonialism,
socialism, Marxism, democracy, capitalism, the Labor Movement,
segregation, poverty, education, religion, sharecropping, Jim
Crow laws, the New Deal, the World Wars, the Black Liberation
movement, the Scottsboro and Herndon trials, black nationalism,
miscegenation, the black athlete, civil rights, apartheid, the
Black Panther Party, the NAACP, birth control, the vote, urban
ghettoes in relation to the rural South, strat