The struggle for freedom.
Subtitle: a history of African Americans
By: Clayborne Carson, Emma J. Lapsansky-Werner, Gary B. Nash.
Contributors: Lapsansky-Werner, Emma J. 1945-; Nash, Gary B.
Series: Penguin academics
Publisher: Pearson Longman
Published: 2007
Place of publication: New York, N.Y
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780321355744
Subjects: African Americans -- History.
Notes: Includes bibliography and index.
Table of contents: title: Post-Civil War Reconstruction, a national era; title: Post-Reconstruction Era; title: "Colored" becomes "Negro" in the Progressive Era; title: Making of a "New Negro," World War I to the Great Depression; title: New politics of the Great Depression; title: Fighting fascism abroad and racism at home; title: Emergence of a mass movement against Jim Crow; title: Marching toward freedom, 1961-1966; title: Resistance, repression, and retrenchment, 1967-1978; title: Search for new directions during a conservative era, 1979-1991; title: Continuing struggles over rights and identity, 1992-present; title: Appendix: Declaration of Independence; Constitution of the United States of America; Amendments to the Constitution; Dred Scott v. Sanford, 1857; Emancipation Proclamation ; Plessy v. Ferguson,1896; Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, 1954; Key provisions of the Civil Rights Act of 1964; Key provisions of the Voting Rights Act of 1965.