This collection of 80 dramatic firsthand writings by Frederick Douglass, Ida B. Wells, and others brings to life the struggle for racial justice from the Civil War to World War I A vital resource for the teaching of the history of race in America that traces the ascendency of white supremacy after Reconstruction--and the outspoken resistance to it led by Black Americans and their allies W.E.B. Du Bois famously identified "the problem of the color-line" as the defining issue in American life. The powerful writings gathered here reveal the many ways Americans, Black and white, fought against white supremacist efforts to police the color line, envisioning a better America in the face of disenfranchisement, segregation, and widespread lynching, mob violence, and police brutality. Jim Crow: Voices from a Century of Struggle, Part One brings together speeches, pamphlets, newspaper and magazine articles, public testimony, judicial opinions, letters, and poems and song lyrics--more than eighty essential texts in all--from the end of Reconstruction in 1876 to the bloody "Red Summer" of 1919. The volume includes writing by both famous and lesser known individuals, including: * Ida B. Wells on the scourge of lynching * Richard T. Greener's scathing critique of America's "White Problem" * Charles Chesnutt on the nullification of the Fifteenth Amendment * Booker T. Washington's historic Atlanta address * John Marshall Harlan's eloquent and prophetic dissent in Plessy v. Ferguson; * Mary Church Terrell on segregation in the nation's capital and the convict lease system * William Monroe Trotter's dramatic White House confrontation with Woodrow Wilson * Jeanette Carter's tribute to the men and women who fought back against white mobs in 1919 >As the teaching of our nation's history, especially the history of race in America, becomes increasingly contested, this book will serve as a vital resource, a crucial reminder of where we've been, how far we've come, and how long the road ahead remains.