- 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
Failure of the Afro-American People to Organize
Failure of the Afro-American People to Organize
- Chapter:
- (p.180) 18 Failure of the Afro-American People to Organize
- Source:
- T. Thomas Fortune, the Afro-American Agitator
- Author(s):
Shawn Leigh Alexander
- Publisher:
- University Press of Florida
This chapter presents the editorial, “Failure of the Afro-American People to Organize,” where Fortune reflected on the attempts of the race to organize civil rights organizations. He examined his own efforts to create the Afro-American League and the efforts of those individuals who had tried to sustain the Afro-American Council and the Niagara Movement. Although he acknowledged the importance of their efforts, he concluded that the masses have taken no interest in sustaining the organization and therefore the groups were failures. They need to get the masses aroused, he argued, and stop being windjamming organizations.
Keywords: editorial, African Americans, race, civil rights organizations, Afro-American League, Afro-American Council, Niagara Movement
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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