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Book

Before the Mayflower : a history of Black America

Call Number

  • 973.0496 B4719 2003 (CEN)

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Edition

New Millennium edtion.

Publication Information

Chicago : Johnson Publishing Company., 2003.

Physical Description

796 pages : illustrations (some color), maps ; 25 cm

Summary

Examines the history of African Americans from their African past through the Revolutionary and Civil Wars to contemporary problems and accomplishments.

Contents

  • 1. The African past
  • 2. Before the Mayflower
  • 3. The founding of black America
  • 4. Behind the cotton curtain
  • 5. Blood on the leaves: revolts and conspiracies
  • 6. The generation of crisis
  • 7. Black, blue and gray: the Civil War nobody knows
  • 8. Black power in Dixie
  • 9. The life and times of Jim Crow
  • 10. Red white and black: race and sex
  • 11. From Booker T. Washington to Martin Luther King Jr.
  • 12. The time of the whale
  • 13. The African American century
  • 14. The perseverance of the black spirit
  • 15. Black America's gifts to America and the world
  • Landmarks and milestones
  • Black firsts
  • Select bibliography
  • Index.

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