We ain't what we ought to be
Subtitle: the Black freedom struggle from emancipation to Obama
By: Stephen Tuck.
Publisher: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Cambridge, Mass
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780674036260
Subjects: African Americans -- Civil rights -- History; Social justice -- United States -- History; Civil rights movements -- United States -- History; African Americans -- History -- 1863-1877; African Americans -- History -- 1877-1964; African Americans -- History -- 1964-; United States -- Race relations
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Prologue; title: The freedom war, 1861-1865; title: Postwar Reconstruction, 1865-1877; title: Resisting the juggernaut of White supremacy, 1878-1906; title: Black leaders at the turn of the century, 1893-1916; title: Great War, Great Migration, and Jim Crow, 1917-1924; title: Renaissance in Harlem, dark ages elsewhere, 1924-1941; title: World War II and its aftermath, 1941-1948; title: Three steps forward, two steps back, 1949-1959; title: The civil rights movement, 1960-1965; title: Black power and grassroots protest, 1966-1980; title: Reagan, rap, and resistance, 1979-2000; title: Epilogue.