This new collection of articles provides comprehensive coverage of major and minor figures in the history of African American Politics, from Colonial America to the present. Organised around pivotal conflicts and debates, this six-volume set includes a vast array of original articles, speeches, statements and documents from African American thinkers such as Frederick Douglass, W. E. B. DuBois, Langston Hughes, Martin Luther King, Roy Wilkins, Malcolm X, Angela Davis, Booker T. Washington, Elijah Muhammed, Jesse Jackson and many more.