- 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 Color Line
The Color Line
- Chapter:
- (p.212) 24 The Color Line
- Source:
- T. Thomas Fortune, the Afro-American Agitator
- Author(s):
Shawn Leigh Alexander
- Publisher:
- University Press of Florida
This chapter presents the editorial, “ The Color Line,” where the young Fortune responded forcefully to the New York Sun's critical comments about the way in which the African American community separated themselves from the white community or drew the color line. In his response, Fortune demonstrated his call for racial unity and race consciousness. He called on the community to continue to draw the line and be proud of their black skin. They were acting out of their own interest, he explained, similar to the Irish and German immigrants. Moreover, he argued, the color line in the South and increasingly in the North was drawn by the white community, not the black.
Keywords: African American community, editorials, white community, racial unity, race consciousness, color line
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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
