- Title Pages
- Dedication
- Acknowledgments
- T. Thomas Fortune the Afro-American Agitator: A Collection of Writings, 1880–1928
- Brief Chronology of T. Thomas Fortune's Life
- Prescript
-
PART 1 Politics, Economics, and Education -
PART 2 Civil Rights and Race Leadership -
11 The Virtue of Agitation -
12 Civil Rights and Social Privileges -
13 Afro-American League Convention Speech -
14 Are We Brave Men or Cowards? -
15 Mob Law in the South -
16 Immorality of Southern Suffrage Legislation -
17 False Theory of Education Cause of Race Demoralization -
18 Failure of the Afro-American People to Organize -
19 The Breath of Agitation Is Life -
20 The Quick and the Dead -
21 A Man Without A Country -
22 Segregation and Neighborhood Agreements -
PART 3 Race and the Color Line -
PART 4 Africa, Emigration, and Colonialism - Postscript
- Selected Bibliography of Fortune's Writings
- Selected Bibliography For Further Reading
- Index
- [UNTITLED]
- New Perspectives On the History of the South
The Virtue of Agitation
The Virtue of Agitation
- Chapter:
- (p.115) 11 The Virtue of Agitation
- Source:
- T. Thomas Fortune, the Afro-American Agitator
- Author(s):
Shawn Leigh Alexander
- Publisher:
- University Press of Florida
This chapter presents the editorial, “The Virtue of Agitation,” written in August 1883, where Fortune called upon the race to demonstrate that they were willing to fight for their rights. It is important to note that the editorial was written a few months before the Supreme Court ruled the Civil Rights Act of 1875 unconstitutional and before the riot in Danville, Virginia. These two watershed events signaled the “revolution gone backward” that Fortune discussed after the 1876 election of Rutherford B. Hayes.
Keywords: Danville, race, civil rights, African Americans, Civil Rights Act
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- Title Pages
- Dedication
- Acknowledgments
- T. Thomas Fortune the Afro-American Agitator: A Collection of Writings, 1880–1928
- Brief Chronology of T. Thomas Fortune's Life
- Prescript
-
PART 1 Politics, Economics, and Education -
PART 2 Civil Rights and Race Leadership -
11 The Virtue of Agitation -
12 Civil Rights and Social Privileges -
13 Afro-American League Convention Speech -
14 Are We Brave Men or Cowards? -
15 Mob Law in the South -
16 Immorality of Southern Suffrage Legislation -
17 False Theory of Education Cause of Race Demoralization -
18 Failure of the Afro-American People to Organize -
19 The Breath of Agitation Is Life -
20 The Quick and the Dead -
21 A Man Without A Country -
22 Segregation and Neighborhood Agreements -
PART 3 Race and the Color Line -
PART 4 Africa, Emigration, and Colonialism - Postscript
- Selected Bibliography of Fortune's Writings
- Selected Bibliography For Further Reading
- Index
- [UNTITLED]
- New Perspectives On the History of the South