- 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
- 1 Who Will Own the Soil of the South in the Future
- 2 Status of the Race
- 3 The Civil Rights Decision
- 4 Between Two Fires
- 5 A New Party/But It Will Be!
- 6 The Negro in Politics
- 7 Negrowump
- 8 The Kind of Education the Afro-American Most Needs
- 9 The Negro's Place in American Life at the Present Day
- 10 The Voteless Citizen
- 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
- 23 John Brown and Nat. Turner
- 24 The Color Line
- 25 The Afro-American
- 26 Whose Problem is This?
- 27 The Latest Color Line
- 28 Race Absorption
- 29 Who Are We? Afro-Americans, Colored People or Negroes?
- 30 We Must Make Literature to Make Public Opinion
- 31 Separate the Douglass and Lincoln Birthdays
- PART 4 Africa, Emigration, and Colonialism
- 32 The World in Africa
- 33 An African Empire
- 34 Will the Afro-American Return to Africa?
- 35 The Nationalization of Africa
- Postscript
- Selected Bibliography of Fortune's Writings
- Selected Bibliography For Further Reading
- Index
- [UNTITLED]
- New Perspectives On the History of the South
The Quick and the Dead
The Quick and the Dead
- Chapter:
- (p.192) 20 The Quick and the Dead
- Source:
- T. Thomas Fortune, the Afro-American Agitator
- Author(s):
Shawn Leigh Alexander
- Publisher:
- University Press of Florida
This chapter presents the piece, “The Quick and the Dead,” where Fortune tried to cement his place in African American history. Written in response to George Forbes' article and the Review's own editorial on the passing of Booker T. Washington, Fortune asserted that he and not Washington was the successor of Frederick Douglass in the realm of race leadership. He separated the history of race leadership into three parts: 1841–1884, led by Douglass; 1884–1904, led by himself; and 1904–1915, led by Washington. In this piece Fortune also tried to separate himself from Washington's lack—at least in public—of political agitation. Fortune acknowledged his support for Washington and his policies, but he stated that he was never hindered in what he sought to pursue.
Keywords: African American history, Booker T. Washington, Frederick Douglass, race leadership, political agitation
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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
- 1 Who Will Own the Soil of the South in the Future
- 2 Status of the Race
- 3 The Civil Rights Decision
- 4 Between Two Fires
- 5 A New Party/But It Will Be!
- 6 The Negro in Politics
- 7 Negrowump
- 8 The Kind of Education the Afro-American Most Needs
- 9 The Negro's Place in American Life at the Present Day
- 10 The Voteless Citizen
- 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
- 23 John Brown and Nat. Turner
- 24 The Color Line
- 25 The Afro-American
- 26 Whose Problem is This?
- 27 The Latest Color Line
- 28 Race Absorption
- 29 Who Are We? Afro-Americans, Colored People or Negroes?
- 30 We Must Make Literature to Make Public Opinion
- 31 Separate the Douglass and Lincoln Birthdays
- PART 4 Africa, Emigration, and Colonialism
- 32 The World in Africa
- 33 An African Empire
- 34 Will the Afro-American Return to Africa?
- 35 The Nationalization of Africa
- Postscript
- Selected Bibliography of Fortune's Writings
- Selected Bibliography For Further Reading
- Index
- [UNTITLED]
- New Perspectives On the History of the South
