The online resource Libcom has compiled an extensive PDF compilation of writings about black radical and revolutionary movements in the US in the 20th century, and it is now available for your reading pleasure here. The compilation – titled ‘The Black Radical Tradition’ – includes the writings of Marcus Garvey, Malcolm X, Angela Davis and Stokely Carmichael (see the full contents list, below).

By Alexander Aplerku, AFROPUNK Contributor

CONTENTS

Black Reconstruction – W.E.B. Du Bois

What Socialism Means to Us – Hubert Harrison

An Appeal to the Conscience of the Black Race to See Itself – Marcus Garvey

Program of the African Blood Brotherhood – The African Blood Brotherhood

Report on the Negro Question – Claude McKay

Application for Membership in the Communist Party – W.E.B. Du Bois

The Negro Nation – Harry Haywood

An End to the Neglect of the Problems of the Negro Woman! – Claudia Jones

The Revolutionary Answer to the Negro Problem in US – C.L.R. James

Revolutionary Nationalism and the Afro-American – Harold Cruse

Is the Black Bourgeoisie the Leader of the Black Liberation Movement? – Harry Haywood with Gwendolyn Midlo Hall

The American Revolution – James Boggs

Message to Grassroots – Malcolm X

The 12-Point Program of RAM – Revolutionary Action Movement

Speech in Beijing – Robert F. Williams

Black Power – Stokely Carmichael

Beyond Vietnam – Martin Luther King, Jr.

The Pitfalls of National Consciousness – Frantz Fanon

The Correct Handling of a Revolution – Huey P. Newton

Power Anywhere Where There’s People – Fred Hampton

On the Ideology of the Black Panther Party – Eldridge Cleaver

On the Defection of Eldridge Cleaver … – Huey P. Newton

Prison Letters – George Jackson

White Blindspot – Noel Ignatin

Without a Science of Navigation We Cannot Sail in Stormy Seas – Noel Ignatin

Liberation Will Come from a Black Thing – James Forman

General Program (Here’s Where We’re Coming From) – League of Revolutionary Black Workers

From Repression to Revolution – Ken Cockrel

Black Women’s Manifesto; Double Jeopardy: To Be Black and Female – Frances M. Beal

Reflections on the Black Woman’s Role in the Community of Slaves – Angela Davis

The Combahee River Collective Statement – Combahee River Collective

Negro National Colonial Question – Communist League

Critique of the Black Nation Thesis – Racism Research Project

Revolutionary Review: The Black Nation Thesis – Congress of African People

National Liberation of Puerto Rico and the Responsibilities of the U.S. Proletariat – Puerto Rican Revolutionary Workers Organization

Revolution, the National Question and Asian Americans – I Wor Kuen