Term paper resource guide to African American history
By: Caryn E. Neumann.
Publisher: Greenwood Press; Greenwood
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Westport, Conn
Language: eng
Number of pages: 320
ISBN-13: 9780313355011
Subjects: African Americans -- History -- Study and teaching; African Americans -- History; African Americans -- History -- Bibliography; Report writing -- Handbooks, manuals, etc
Genres: Bibliography.; Handbooks, manuals, etc.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Atlantic slave trade expands to North America; title: Slavery is introduced to Virginia; title: Slave codes are established (1660s); title: Bacon's Rebellion; title: The great awakening (1720s-60s); title: Stono Rebellion; title: New York conspiracy trials; title: George Washington bans Black men from revolutionary forces; title: Lord Dunmore offers freedom to Blacks who join the British; title: Declaration of Independence; title: Northwest ordinance bars slavery from western territories; title: 3/5 Compromise is added to the Constitution; title: Cotton gin is invented; title: Gabriel's Rebellion; title: New Jersey becomes the last northern state to abolish slavery; title: Congress ends U.S. participation in the Atlantic slave trade; title: Richard Allen establishes the African Methodist Church; title: American colonization society establishes Liberia; title: Denmark Vesey's Rebellion; title: Nat Turner's Rebellion; title: American Anti-slavery Society is founded; title: Amistad mutiny; title: Narrative of the life of Frederick Douglass, written by himself is published; title: Sojourner Truth gives "Ain't I a woman?" speech; title: Compromise of 1850; title: Underground Railroad increases its efforts to aid runaway slaves; title: Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's cabin is published; title: Kansas-Nebraska Act establishes popular sovereignty; title: Senator Charles Sumner is attacked in the Senate; title: George Fitzhugh of Virginia argues the benefits of slavery; title: Dred Scott Decision; title: John Brown's attack on Harper's Ferry; title: Abraham Lincoln issues the Emancipation Proclamation; title: Blacks enlist in the Fifty-fourth Massachusetts Regiment; title: Congress and President Lincoln devise rival forms of reconstruction; title: Sharecropping is established; title: Thirteenth Amendment is ratified; title: Freedmen's Bureau is created; title: Black codes are passed (1865-1866); title: Ku Klux Klan is formed; title: Fourteenth Amendment is ratified; title: Fifteenth Amendment is ratified; title: First Black men elected to the U.S. Congress; title: Compromise of 1877; title: Kansas Exodus Joint Stock Company sends emigrants west; title: Tuskegee Institute is founded; title: Colored Farmers' Alliance representatives help found the Populist Party; title: Ida B. Wells denounces lynching (1892); title: Booker T. Washington delivers Atlanta Compromise speech; title: Plessy v. Ferguson; title: Buffalo Soldiers serve in the American West and Spanish American War (1890s); title: Scott Joplin's "Maple leaf rag" establishes ragtime as an American musical form; title: W.E.B. du Bois publishes The souls of black folk; title: Jack Johnson becomes the first Black heavyweight boxing champion; title: Formation of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP); title: Charles Davenport publishes Eugenics : the science of human improvement by better breeding; title: Universal Negro Improvement Association founded; title: The birth of a nation rejuvenates the Ku Klux Klan; title: The Great Migration (1915-1920); title: Race riots (1919-1921); title: Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters is founded; title: Harlem Renaissance (1920s); title: Elijah Muhammad joins the Nation of Islam; title: The Scottsboro Boys case; title: Mississippi Health Project begins; title: Boxer Joe Louis defeats Primo Carnera; title: Mary McLeod Bethune organizes the Black cabinet; title: March on Washington's Double V campaign; title: Tuskegee Airmen silence skeptics with victories in Italy; title: Morgan v. Virginia rules that segregation on interstate buses is illegal; title: President Harry S. Truman desegregates the U.S. military; title: Jackie Robinson breaks the color bar in baseball; title: Brown v. Board of Education; title: Lynching of Emmett Till; title: Rosa Parks is arrested; title: Crisis at Little Rock; title: North Carolina A&T students initiate a sit-in protest; title: Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee is formed; title: Martin Luther King's "I have a dream" speech; title: Birmingham church bombing; title: Civil Rights Act; title: Economic Opportunity Act; title: The Moynihan report; title: Voting Rights Act; title: Watts riot in Los Angeles; title: Black Panther Party is founded; title: Blacks serve in the military during the Vietnam War (1960s); title: Loving v. Virginia; title: Martin Luther King, Jr., is assasinated; title: Kerner report is issued; title: President Richard Nixon promotes a southern strategy; title: Roots is televised; title: Michele Wallace publishes Black macho and the myth of the superwoman; title: Bakke case; title: Jesse Jackson runs for president; title: Black Miami residents riot over police brutality (1980); title: Clarence Thomas is appointed to the U.S. Supreme Court; title: Jury acquits Los Angeles police officers in the beating of Rodney King and rioting ensues; title: Welfare Reform Act; title: Hurricane Katrina devastates New Orleans.