Before the Mayflower : a history of Black America

Author

Lerone Bennett

Call Number

• 973.0496 B4719 2003 (CEN)

Browse similar titles by call number

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.