Sources of the African American past : primary sources in American history / Roy E. Finkenbine.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Finkenbine, Roy E.
Language:English
Published: New York : Pearson/Longman, 2003.
Edition:Second edition.
Subjects:
African Americans > History > Sources.
Genre:
Sources.
Physical Description:xii, 228 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Format: Book
Contents:
  • "Bones of the past" : using primary sources in African American history
  • Africans in the Atlantic slave trade
  • Becoming African American : the colonial experience
  • Black declarations of independence : the American Revolution
  • Free black communities in the new nation
  • Antebellum slavery : testimony from the quarters
  • Black abolitionists
  • Days of jubilee : the Civil War and the end of slavery
  • Dreams deferred : the promise and failure of Reconstruction
  • The color line in the era of segregation
  • Racial alternatives in the progressive era
  • The Great War and the great migration
  • A New Deal for African Americans?
  • Fighting on two fronts : World War II
  • The school segregation cases
  • The Civil Rights movement
  • Black power, black nationalism
  • Half empty, half full : African Americans since 1968.