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Pub. Date
2018
Language
English
Description
This encyclopedic work aims to increase the wealth of information that is currently published on African Americans and their struggle for civil rights. It builds on such works, by bringing together in one convenient volume topics and issues that may appear in many different works.
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
English
Description
Focusing on the making of African American society from the 1896 "separate but equal" ruling of Plessy v. Ferguson up to the contemporary period, this encyclopedia traces the transition from the Reconstruction Era to the age of Jim Crow, the Harlem Renaissance, the Great Migration, the Brown ruling that overturned Plessy , the Civil Rights Movement, and the ascendant influence of African-American culture on the American cultural landscape. --publisher...
Pub. Date
2008.
Language
English
Description
Reflects the perseverance, creativity, and achievements of black Americans over five centuries. Legal and extralegal impediments, such as slavery, segregation, and racial violence, limited but could not fully prevent African Amerians' participation in our national life.
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