Better day coming
Subtitle: Blacks and equality, 1890-2000
By: Adam Fairclough.
Publisher: Viking
Published: 2001
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 384
Subjects: African Americans -- Civil rights -- History -- 20th century.; African Americans -- Civil rights -- Southern States -- History -- 20th century.; Civil rights movements -- United States -- History -- 20th century.; Civil rights movements -- Southern States -- History -- 20th century.; United States -- Race relations.; Southern States -- Race relations.
Description: "Historian Adam Fairclough's Better Day Coming chronicles the struggle of black Americans to achieve civil rights and equality in a society that, after the collapse of Reconstruction, sanctioned racial segregation, racial discrimination, and white political supremacy."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [337]-369) and index.
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note: I; title: I The Failure of Reconstruction and the Triumph; title: of White Supremacy; title: 2 Ida B. Wells and the Campaign Against Lynching; title: 3 Booker T. Washington and the Strategy ofAccommodaton; title: 4 The Rise of the NAACP; title: 5 The Great War and Racial Equality; title: 6 Marcus Garvey and the UNIA; title: 7 The Radical Thirties; title: 8 Blacks in the Segregated South, 1919-42; title: 9 lThe NAACP's Challenge to White Supremacy, 1935-45; title: 1O Two Steps Forward and One Step Back, 1946-55; title: The Nonviolent Rebellion, 1955-60; title: The Civil Rights Movement, 1960-63; title: Birmingham, the Freedom Summner, and Selma; title: The Rise and Fall of Black Power; title: The Continuing Struggle.