Protest Makes a Civil Rights Revolution
During the civil rights era of 1960s, African Americans and their allies took massive ‘direct actions” in marches, demonstrations,...
Cold War Civil Rights
United states presented itself to the world as the leader of the democratic “Free World” as against the socialist Union of Soviet...
The New Negro
The Great Migration was the movement of 6 million African-Americans out of the rural Southern United States to the urban Northeast,...
Hard-Working People in the Depth of Segregation
The late nineteenth century and early twentieth centuries saw the movement of tens of thousands of rural African Americans into town...
Those Who Were Free
Black soldiers in the American revolution The chapter starts with the involvement of African Americans in the political wars and...
A Diasporic People
The descendants of the half million Africans brought to British north America in the slave trade belonged to an international community...
Captives Transported
Starting from seventeenth-century, hundreds of thousands of Africans were captured and transported to British North America, part of huge...
Africa and Black Americans
The chapter explains how African Americans’ thinking about Africa has evolved over the period of 400 years. The ideas of their ancestry...