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Author Foner, Eric, compilor.

Title America's black past; a reader in Afro-American history.

Publication Info. New York : Harper & Row [1970]

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Location Call No. Status
 Glastonbury, Welles-Turner Memorial Library - Adult Department  325.267 F673A    Check Shelf
 Manchester, Main Library - Non Fiction  973.09    Check Shelf
 New Britain, Main Library - Non Fiction  326 F732    Check Shelf
Edition [First edition].
Description xiv, 684 pages ; 22 cm
Bibliography Bibliography: pages 557-577.
Contents The African heritage. The African heritage / Melville J. Herskovits -- The slave trade. From : Capitalism and slavery / Eric Williams -- The development of slavery in the United States. From : White over black / Winthrop Jordan -- Two views of slave culture. Slavery and personality / Stanley Elkins -- Through the prism of folklore : the Black ethos in slavery / Sterling Stuckey -- Resistance to slavery. A troublesome property / Kenneth Stampp -- Peter Still versus the peculiar institution / Robert Brent Toplin -- Free Blacks in the ante-bellum north. From North of slavery / Leon F. Litwack -- Black abolitionism. The emancipation of the Negro abolitionist / Leon F. Litwack -- Blacks and the Civil War. The general strike / W.E.B. Du Bois -- Black Reconstruction. The Negro and politics, 1870-1875 / Vernon Lane Wharton -- Blacks in the "New South". From : Origins of the New South / C. Vann Woodward -- Booker T. Washington and his times. Negro class structure and ideology in the age of Booker T. Washington / August Meier -- W.E.B. Du Bois and the new century. The paradox of W.E.B. Du Bois / August Meier -- Blacks and the labor movement : a case study. The Negro and the United Mine Workers of America / Herbert G. Gutman -- Migration and the rise of the ghetto. From: Black Chicago / Allan H. Spear -- Marcus Garvey and his movement. Garvey and Garveyism / E.U. Essien-Udom -- The Harlem Renaissance. From : The Negro novel in America / Robert A. Bone -- Blacks in the Roosevelt era. The Negro in the New Deal Era / Leslie H. Fishel, Jr. -- The NAACP and the fight against segregation. The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People / Gunnar Myrdal -- The school segregation cases / Anthony Lewis and the New York Times -- The freedom movement and the rise of Nationalism. Black radicalism : the road from Montgomery / Vincent Harding -- The urban ghetto today. Riot participation / The National Advisory Commission on Civil Disorders -- The social and economic status of the Negro in the United States / St. Clair Drake -- Black power and beyond. What we want / Stokely Carmichael -- Postscript on Black Power : the dialogue between shadow and substance / Harold Cruse.
Subject African Americans -- History.
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