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Preface | |
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About the Authors | |
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Becoming African American | |
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Africa | |
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A Huge and Diverse Land | |
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The Birthplace of Humanity | |
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Ancient Civilizations and Old Arguments | |
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West Africa | |
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Kongo and Angola | |
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West African Society and Culture | |
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Conclusion | |
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Middle Passage | |
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The European Age of Exploration and Colonization | |
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The Slave Trade in Africa | |
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The Origins of the Atlantic Slave Trade | |
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Growth of the Atlantic Slave Trade | |
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The African-American Ordeal from Capture to Destination | |
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Landing and Sale in the West Indies | |
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Seasoning | |
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The End of the Journey: Masters and Slaves in the Americas | |
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The Ending of the Atlantic Slave Trade | |
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Conclusion | |
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Black People in Colonial North America, 1526���1763 | |
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The Peoples of Eastern North America | |
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Black Servitude in the Chesapeake | |
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Plantation Slavery, 1700���1750 | |
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Slave Life in Early America | |
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Miscegenation and Creolization | |
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The Origins of African-American Culture | |
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Slavery in the Northern Colonies | |
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Slavery in Spanish Florida and French Louisiana | |
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Black Women in Colonial America | |
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Black Resistance and Rebellion | |
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Conclusion | |
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Rising Expectations: African Americans and the Struggle for Independence, 1763���1783 | |
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The Crisis of the British Empire | |
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The Declaration of Independence and African Americans | |
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Black Enlightenment | |
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African Americans in the War for Independence | |
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The Revolution and Emancipation | |
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Conclusion | |
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African Americans in the New Nation, 1783���1820 | |
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Forces for Freedom | |
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Forces for Slavery | |
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The Emergence of Free Black Communities | |
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The War of 1812 | |
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Conclusion | |
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Slavery, Abolition, and the Quest for Freedom: the Coming of the Civil War, 1793���1861 | |
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Life in the Cotton Kingdom | |
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The Expansion of Slavery | |
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Slave Labor in Agriculture | |
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House Servants and Skilled Slaves | |
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Slave Families | |
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The Socialization of Slaves | |
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Religion | |
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The Character of Slavery and Slaves | |
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Conclusion | |
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Free Black People in Antebellum America, 1820-1861 | |
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Demographics of Freedom | |
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The Jacksonian Era | |
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Limited Freedom in the North | |
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Black Communities in the Urban North | |
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African-American Institutions | |
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Free African Americans in the Upper South | |
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Free African Americans in the Deep South | |
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Conclusion | |
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Opposition to Slavery, 1800���1833 | |
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Abolitionism Begins in America | |
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From Gabriel to Denmark Vesey | |
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A Country in Turmoil | |
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Black Abolitionist Women | |
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The Baltimore Alliance | |
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David Walker and Nat Turner | |
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Conclusion | |
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Let Your Motto be Resistance, 1833���1850 | |
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A Rising Tide of Racism and Violence | |
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Black Community Institutions | |
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The American and Foreign Anti-Slavery Society and the Liberty Party | |
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A More Aggressive Abolitionism | |
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Black Militancy | |
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Conclusion | |
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"And Black People Were at the Heart of It": the United States Disunites over Slavery | |
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The Lure of the West | |
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Fugitive Slaves | |
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The Rochester Convention, 1853 | |
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Nativism and the Know-Nothings | |
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Uncle Tom's Cabin | |
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The Kansas-Nebraska Act | |
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Preston Brooks Attacks Charles Sumner | |
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The Dred Scott Decision | |
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White Northerners and Black Americans | |
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The Lincoln-Douglas Debates | |
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Abraham Lincoln and Black People | |
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John Brown and the Raid on Harpers Ferry | |
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The Election of Abraham Lincoln | |
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Conclusion | |
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The Civil War, Emancipation, and Black Reconstruction: the Second American Revolution | |
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Liberation: African Americans and the Civil War | |
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Lincoln's Aims | |
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Black Men Volunteer and Are Rejected | |
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Union Policies toward Confederate Slaves | |
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The Preliminary Emancipation Proclamation | |
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The Emancipation Proclamation | |
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Black Men Fight for the Union | |
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The Confederate Reaction to Black Soldiers | |
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Black Men in the Union Navy | |
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Liberators, Spies, and Guides | |
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Violent Opposition to Black People | |
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Refugees | |
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Black People and the Confederacy | |
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Conclusion | |
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The Meaning of Freedom: the Promise of Reconstruction, 1865���1868 | |
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The End of Slavery | |
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Land | |
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The Freedmen's Bureau | |
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Southern Homestead Act | |
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Sharecropping | |
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The Black Church | |
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Education | |
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Violence | |
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The Crusade for Political and Civil Rights | |
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Presidential Reconstruction under Andrew Johnson | |
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Black Codes | |
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Black Conventions | |
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The Radical Republicans | |
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The Fourteenth Amendment | |
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Radical Reconstruction | |
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The Reaction of White Southerners | |
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Conclusion | |
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The Meaning of Freedom: the Failure of Reconstruction, 1868���1877 | |
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Constitutional Conventions | |
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Elections | |
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Black Political Leaders | |
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The Issues | |
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Economic Issues | |
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Black Politicians: An Evaluation | |
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Republican Factionalism | |
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Opposition | |
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The Fifteenth Amendment | |
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The Enforcement Acts | |
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The North Loses Interest | |
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The Freedmen's Bank | |
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The Civil Rights Act of 1875 | |
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The End of Reconstruction | |
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Conclusion | |
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Searching for Safe Spaces | |
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White Supremacy Triumphant: African Americans in teh SOuth in the Late Nineteenth Century | |
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Politics | |
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Disfranchisement | |
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Segregation | |
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Racial Etiquette | |
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Violence | |
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Migration | |
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Black Farm Families | |
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African Americans and Southern Courts | |
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Conclusion | |
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African Americans Challenge White Supremacy | |
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Social Darwinism | |
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Education and Schools | |
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Church and Religion | |
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Red versus Black: the Buffalo Soldiers | |
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African Americans in the Navy | |
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The Black Cowboys | |
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The Spanish-American War | |
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The Philippine Insurrection | |
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African Americans and the World's Columbian Exposition | |
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Black Businesspeople and Entrepreneurs | |
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African Americans and Labor | |
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Black Professionals | |
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Music | |
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Sports | |
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Conclusion | |
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Conciliation, Agitation, and Migration: African Americans in the Early Twentieth Century | |
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Race and the Progressive Movement | |
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Booker T. Washington's Approach | |
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W. E. B. Du Bois | |
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The Niagara Movement | |
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The NAACP | |
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The Urban League | |
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Black Women and the Club Movement | |
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The Black Elite | |
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African-American Inventors | |
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Presidential Politics | |
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Black Men and the Military in World War I | |
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Race Riots | |
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The Great Migration | |
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Northern Communities | |
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Families | |
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Conclusion | |
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African Americans and the 1920s | |
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Strikes and the Red Scare | |
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Varieties of Racism | |
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Protest, Pride, and Pan-Africanism: Black Organizations in the Twenties | |
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Labor | |
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The Harlem Renaissance | |
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Harlem and the Jazz Age | |
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Sports | |
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Conclusion | |
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The Great Depression and World War II | |
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The Great Depression and the New Deal | |
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The Cataclysm, 1929���1933 | |
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The Failure of Relief | |
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African Americans and the New Deal | |
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The Rise of Black Social Scientists | |
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Black Protest During the Great Depression | |
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Organized Labor and Black America | |
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The Communist Party and African Americans | |
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The Tuskegee Study | |
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Conclusion | |
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Black Culture and Society in the 1930s and 1940s | |
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Black Culture in a Midwestern City | |
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The Black Culture Industry and American Racism | |
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The Music Culture from Swing to Bebop | |
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Popular Culture for the Masses: Comic Strips, Radio, and the Movies | |
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The Black Chicago Renaissance | |
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Black Graphic Art | |
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Black Literature | |
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African Americans in Sports | |
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Black Religious Culture | |
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Conclusion | |
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The World War II Era and Seeds of a Revolution | |
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On the Eve of War, 1936���1941 | |
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Race and the U.S. Armed Forces | |
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Black People on the Home Front | |
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The Transition to Peace | |
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The Cold War and International Politics | |
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Conclusion | |
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The Black Revolution | |
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The Freedom Movement, 1954���1965 | |
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The 1950s: Prosperity and Prejudice | |
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The Road to Brown | |
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Brown II | |
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New Forms of Protest: the Montgomery Bus Boycott | |
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No Easy Road to Freedom: 1957���1960 | |
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Black Youth Stand Up by Sitting Down | |
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A Sight to be Seen: the Movement at High Tide | |
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The Albany Movement | |
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The Birmingham Confrontation | |
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A Hard Victory | |
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Conclusion | |
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The Struggle Continues, 1965���1980 | |
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The Fading Dream of Racial Integration: White Backlash and Black Nationalism | |
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The Black Panther Party | |
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The Inner-City Rebellions | |
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Difficulties in Creating the Great Society | |
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Johnson and the War in Vietnam | |
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Johnson: Vietnam Destroys the Great Society | |
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King: Searching for a New Strategy | |
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The Black Arts Movement and Black Consciousness | |
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The Second Phase of the Black Student Movement | |
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The Election of 1968 | |
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The Nixon Presidency | |
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The Rise of Black Elected Officials | |
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Economic Downturn | |
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Black Americans and the Carter Presidency | |
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Conclusion | |
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African-Americans at the New Millennium | |
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Progress and Poverty: Income, Education, and Health | |
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The Persistence of Black Poverty | |
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African Americans at the Center of Art and Culture | |
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Black Religion at the Dawn of the Millennium | |
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Louis Farrakhan and the Nation of Islam | |
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Millennium Marches | |
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Complicating Black Identity in the Twenty-First Century | |
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Conclusion | |
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The Triumph of Black Politics, 1980 to Present | |
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Ronald Reagan and the Conservative Reaction | |
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Black Political Activism in the Age of Conservative Reaction | |
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Jesse Jackson and the Rainbow Coalition | |
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Policing the Black Community | |
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The Clinton Presidency | |
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Black Politics in the New Millennium: the Contested 2000 Presidential Election | |
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Republican Triumph | |
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The 2004 Presidential Election | |
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Barack Obama: President of the United States | |
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Conclusion | |
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Chapter Timeline | |
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Glossary of Key Terms and Concepts | |
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Bibliography | |
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Index | |