With authoritative text and a wealth of full-color maps and
illustrations, this volume details the cultural, historical,
political, and social histories and experiences of African
Americans.
Coverage includes:
-- The African Heritage: An overview of the African continent, the
civilizations that have inhabited it, and the cultural traditions
that it has fostered
-- Slavery in Early America: The mechanics of the slavery system;
the Triangle Trade and the Middle Passage; the invention of the
cotton gin; black pioneers and westward expansion
-- The Divided Nation: The American Civil War; the Missouri
Compromise; the Abolitionist Movement; and the Emancipation
Proclamation
-- Up from Slavery: Reconstruction; the Freedman's Bureau; the
sharecropping system; African Americans and higher education;
-- The "New Negro": The NAACP and the Urban League; the Jim Crow
laws; the roles of African Americans in World War I and World War
II; African Americans and the Great Depression; the New Deal
-- The Civil Rights Years: The civil rights movement; Brown v.
Board of Education; the Montgomery bus boycott; the life of Dr.
Martin Luther King, Jr.; the freedom rides; Malcolm X and the rise
of black nationalism
-- The Struggle Continues: The demographics of black America;
affirmative action; Louis Farrakhan and the Million Man March;
African-American political power; a pan-African world.
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