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50 events that shaped African American history : an encyclopedia of the American mosaic

Call Number

  • 973.0496 F4697 [multiple volumes] (OSH)

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Publication Information

Santa Barbara, California : Greenwood, an Imprint of ABC-CLIO, LLC, [2019]

Physical Description

2 volumes (xx, 861 pages) ; 26 cm

Summary

"This two-volume work celebrates 50 notable achievements of African Americans, highlighting black contributions to U.S. history and examining the ways black accomplishments shaped American culture"--

Contents

  • Trans-Atlantic slave trade, 1502-1888 / Christopher Cumo
  • Nat Turner's Revolt, 1831 / Bethany Jay
  • Abolitionist movement, 1830-1860 / Whitney Stewart, Jonathan A. Noyalas, Kevin R.C. Gutzman, Nancy A. McCaslin
  • Compromise of 1850 / Kathleen Gronnerud
  • Dred Scott v. Sanford, 1857 / Marty Kuhlman
  • John Brown's raid, 1859 / Evan C. Rothera
  • The United States Civil War, 1861-1865 / James Sandy
  • Reconstruction Era, 1863-1877 / Loryn Clauson
  • Establishment of black codes, 1866 / Lacey P. Hunter
  • The exoduster movement, 1879-1881 / John Becker, Michael Thomas Gavin, Christopher Keith Johnson, P. Huston Ladner
  • Atlanta Compromise, 1895 / Justin Williams, Bobby R. Holt
  • Plessy v. Ferguson, 1896 / Rodney Montague, Michael S. Rodriguez
  • The great migration, 1910-1960 / Jessica L. Parker
  • The rise and fall of the Universal Negro Improvement Association, 1914-1940 / Jamie J. Wilson, Shawntel Lyn Ensminger
  • The Harlem Renaissance, 1919-1930 / Jordan Hill
  • Pan African Congresses, 1919-1949 / Esperanza Brizuela-Garcia, Walter Rucker
  • Scottsboro boys 1931-1948 / Valerie R. Stackman
  • Tuskegee syphilis experiment, 1932-1972 / Rueben C. Warren, Clayborne Carson, Mindy R. Weidman
  • Jackie Robinson integrates major league baseball, 1947 / Thabiti Lewis, Amy Essington, Gregory Kaliss, Lew Freedman
  • Integration of United States Armed Forces, 1947 / Janice D. Hamlet
  • Freedom rides, 1947, 1961 / Matthew Gritter, Gerald Wayne Dowdy
  • Brown vs. Board of Education, 1954 / Sarah Militz-Frielink, La Vonne Neal, & Alicia L. Moore
  • The murder of Emmet Till, 1955 / Frank C. King, Jr., Lionel Kimble, Jr., David Kenneth Pye
  • Montgomery bus boycott, 1955-1956 / Jamie J. Wilson, Dan Puckett, Erin Boade, Jennifer A. Lemak
  • The founding of the Southern Christian Leadership Council, 1957 / Gabriel J. Atchison, Mindy R. Weidman
  • Greensboro four and the sit-in movement, 1960 / Hettie V. Williams, Mary Jo Fairchild
  • Project C: the Birmingham campaign, 1963 / Sondra Bickham Washington
  • March on Washington for jobs and freedom, 1963 / Jamie J. Wilson
  • The birth of soul: Stax and Motown Records, 1957-1967 / Tammy Kernodle, Katherine Gould, Amanda de la Garza
  • Freedom summer, 1964 / Jamie Wilson, Claudette L. Tolson, Cristy Casado Tondeur, Paul T. Miller, William Mychael Sturkey
  • War on poverty, 1964 / Jamie J. Wilson, Rickie Sanders, James A. Beckman
  • Rights legislation: Civil Rights Act 1964 and Voting Rights Act, 1965 / John Barnhill, John Drabble
  • Assassination of Malcolm X, 1965 / Bijan C. Bayne, Walter Rucker, Jamie J. Wilson
  • The long hot summers: African American riots and rebellions, 1965-1968 / William P. Toth, Amanda J. Davis, Lacey P. Hunter, Mindy R. Weidman, Walter Rucker
  • The Black power movement, 1966-1973 / Jamie J. Wilson, Sara K. Eskridge
  • Loving v. Virginia, 1967 / Staci M. Rubin
  • Assassination of Martin Luther King, 1968 / Andrew Joseph Pegoda
  • Black arts movement, 1960-1975 / Nagueyalti Warren
  • Rise and fall of the Black Panther Party, 1966-1983 / Jamie J. Wilson, Zoe Trodd
  • Election of Shirley Chisholm to the U.S. Congress, 1968 / Matthew Gritter
  • The birth of hip hop, 1970-1985 / Melissa Ursula Dawn Goldsmith
  • Release of Shaft, 1971 / Jacynda Ammons
  • Roots: the miniseries, 1976 / Renate L. Chancellor
  • Launch of Oprah Winfrey Show, 1986 / Shennette Garrett-Scott
  • African American Antiapartheid movement, 1937-1994 / Dawne Y. Curry, Walter Rucker, Clay M. Johnson
  • Million man march, 1995 / Richard Thomas
  • The war on drugs, 1971-2000s / Mathai V. Mathew, Glen Jeansonne, David Luhrssen, Jim Marshall, Richard Kent Evans
  • Barack Obama wins the presidency, 2008 / Marilyn K. Howard, Terri Nichols
  • Black lives matter movement, 2013-2017 / Rhonda Erica Celey
  • National Museum of African American History and Culture opens, 2016 / Christopher Cumo.

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