| Edition |
Eighth edition. |
| Description |
804 pages : illustrations (some color), portraits ; 23 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages [767]-784) and index. |
| Contents |
The African past -- Before the Mayflower -- The founding of black America -- Behind the cotton curtain -- Blood on the leaves: revolts and conspiracies -- The generation of crisis -- Black, blue and gray: the Civil War nobody knows -- Black power in Dixie -- The life and times of Jim Crow -- Red, white and black: race and sex -- From Booker T. Washington to Martin Luther King Jr. -- The time of the whale -- The African-American century -- The perseverance of the black spirit -- Black America's gifts to America and the world -- Landmarks and milestones -- Black firsts. |
| Subject |
African Americans -- History.
|
| Added Title |
History of Black America |
| ISBN |
9780874850000 |
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0874850002 |
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9780874850079 cased |
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087485007X cased |
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