Atlas of African-American HistoryText, maps, and illustrations introduce African cultures and trace African American history from the slave trade through the Civil War, emancipation, the early twentieth century, and the civil rights movement to the present. |
Contents
The African Heritage | 1 |
Slavery in Early America | 23 |
The Divided Nation | 53 |
Up from Slavery | 87 |
The New Negro | 121 |
The Civil Rights Years | 151 |
Backlash and Retrenchment | 189 |
Black America Today | 215 |
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