- 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 -
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 - Postscript
- Selected Bibliography of Fortune's Writings
- Selected Bibliography For Further Reading
- Index
- [UNTITLED]
- New Perspectives On the History of the South
We Must Make Literature to Make Public Opinion
We Must Make Literature to Make Public Opinion
- Chapter:
- (p.253) 30 We Must Make Literature to Make Public Opinion
- Source:
- T. Thomas Fortune, the Afro-American Agitator
- Author(s):
Shawn Leigh Alexander
- Publisher:
- University Press of Florida
This chapter presents the editorial, “We Must Make Literature to Make Public Opinion,” where Fortune aligned himself with others during the Harlem Renaissance, calling on African Americans “to make our own literature” and to “write the story ourselves.”
Keywords: editorial, Harlem Renaissance, African American literature
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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 -
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 - Postscript
- Selected Bibliography of Fortune's Writings
- Selected Bibliography For Further Reading
- Index
- [UNTITLED]
- New Perspectives On the History of the South