Henry Louis Gates
Author
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
A landmark book tracing African American history from the arrival of the conquistadors and the sixteenth century, through the ordeal of slavery and the Civil War, Reconstruction, and the Jim Crow era and the Great Migration through the civil rights and black nationalist movements and the age of hip-hop to the Joshua generation and the election of Barack Obama. Informed by the latest scholarship, and including more than eight hundred images--ancient...