- 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
Separate the Douglass and Lincoln Birthdays
Separate the Douglass and Lincoln Birthdays
- Chapter:
- (p.255) 31 Separate the Douglass and Lincoln Birthdays
- Source:
- T. Thomas Fortune, the Afro-American Agitator
- Author(s):
Shawn Leigh Alexander
- Publisher:
- University Press of Florida
This chapter presents the editorial, “Separate the Douglass and Lincoln Birthdays,” where Fortune called on the community to end the practice of celebrating the lives of both Lincoln and Douglass during Negro History Week. “Douglass belongs to us,” Fortune proclaimed. The race, he argued, should leave Mr. Lincoln to the whites, and “Mr. Douglass should become their priority, an individual praised and honored for all the generations.” Fortune's argument is reminiscent of his editorial debate with Frederick Douglass Jr. about John Brown in 1889 and is a good example of Fortune's race pride late in his life.
Keywords: Abraham Lincoln, Frederick Douglass Jr, editorials, African American community, Negro History Week
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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
