By these hands : a documentary history of African American humanism / edited by Anthony B. Pinn.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Religious humanism / William R. Jones -- Nineteenth-century Black feminist writing and organizing as a humanist act / Duchess Harris -- The story of James Hay / William Loren Katz, editor -- An unpublished Frederick Douglass letter / Herbert Aptheker -- Frederick Douglass / William L. Van Deburg -- Negro folk expression / Sterling Brown -- Daniel Payne's protestation of slavery / Daniel Payne -- The Negro's God as reflected in his literature?: Ideas of God involving frustration, doubt, God's impotence, and his non-existence / Benjamin E. Mays -- Humanism in political action / Norm R. Allen, Jr. -- On a certain conservatism in Negroes / Hubert H. Harrison -- Religion, from dust tracks on a road / Zora Neale Hurston -- Black boy / Richard Wright -- On being Negro in America / J. Saunders Redding -- Experiences of chimney sweeper / Lyle Saxon, editor -- The autobiography of W.E.B Du Bois / William Edward Burghardt Du Bois -- The fire next time / James Baldwin -- The legacy of Malcolm X and the coming of the Black nation / Amiri Imanu Baraka -- Halley's comet and my religion / Harry Haywood -- "Corrupt Black preachers" and God is dead: a question of power" / James Forman -- The only reason you want to go to heaven is that you have been driven out of your mind / Alice Walker -- On the relevance the church / Huey P. Newton -- An African-American humanist declaration / African Americans for Humanism.