Nannie Helen Burroughs : a documentary portrait of an early civil rights pioneer, 1900-1959 / edited and annotated by Kelisha B. Graves.

Includes bibliographies and index.

"This would be the first comprehensive intellectual history of Burroughs and a compendium of her most important and influential work. As a force in the civil rights movement of the early 20th century, Burroughs and her work has largely been relegated to inclusion in larger narratives of those events. Rarely has her life and work been considered on its own, and as Graves demonstrates, Burroughs was quite prescient on many issues confronting the African American community today."

Cover; Half Title; Series Page; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction. "God Will Give Us Credit for Trying:" Toward an Intellectual History of Nannie Helen Burroughs; PART ONE. Things of the Spirit: Religious Thought; Reflections on Baptist Theology, the Bible, and Paganism; What Baptists Believe; What the Bible Is and What It Does for the Human Race; Woman's Day; Are You a Colored Baptist?; The Role of the Church in Society; Exporting Christianity and Cultivating Race Prejudice; How to Hitch Your Old Time Religion to New Conditions

The Church Began in the HomeDefinite Work That Uplifters Should Do; Human Waste and Human Responsibility; PART TWO. The Way Up and Out: Social, Political, and Race-Centered Thought; On Black Womanhood, Suffrage, and the Nobility of Labor; How the Sisters Are Hindered from Helping; The Colored Woman and Her Relation to the Domestic Problem; Not Color but Character; Black Women and Reform; Miss Burroughs Plans a "New Deal" to Conserve Girlhood of the Race; Negro Women Must Make Future Brighter, or Continue an Economic, Social Slave; Negro Women and Their Homes

The Negro Woman Is a Mighty Big WomanUplift, Patriotism, Respectability, and Education; Industrial Education-Will It Solve the Negro Problem?; The Negro Home; With All Thy Getting; From a Woman's Point of View; Manhood, Patriotism, Religion, Going Out of Style among Negroes; Bathing Is a Personal Right; Smelling Is a Public Offense; How Does It Feel to Be a Negro?; "Must Uplift the Masses"; The Only Way to Victory; Up from the Depths; Group Politics, Leadership, and Race Work; Go Down Town and Meet Him; Why Our Dispositions Are "Most Nigh Ruint."

Nearly All the Educated Negroes Are Looking for Ready-Made JobsGet Ready-Winter Is Coming, Says Educator; Leaders Idle; Educated Parasites and Satisfied Mendicants; Writer Asks How Dems Election Will Affect Negro; Unload the Leeches and Parasitic "Toms" and Take the Promised Land; Twelve Things the Negro Must Do for Himself; Racial Violence, Social Justice, Politics, and Democracy; Miss Burroughs Replies to Mr. Carrington; Divide Vote or Go to Socialists; What Is Social Equality?; Legitimate Ambitions of the Negro; Why America Has Gone Lynch Mad; Race Attitude

The Challenge of the New Day: Commencement Address, May 24, 1934Ballot and Dollar Needed to Make Progress, Not Pity; Declaration of 1776 Is Cause of the Harlem Riot; This Is the War of the Five Rs: Race, Room, Raw Materials, Rights, Religion; Education and Justice; Put the Leaven in the Lump; Second Class Citizens; Slavery Was a Success; The Meaning of Cooperation; Brotherhood and Democracy; The Only Way to World Peace; The Path to Real Justice; The Hope of the World; Equality of Opportunity Is the Eternal Goal; We Must Fight Back, but with What and How?

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