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Format: 1 online resource (3 volumes (xx, xiv, xiv, 770 pages)) : , illustrations, portraits

ISBN: 1-68217-152-3 , 1-68217-153-1

Series Statement: Great Events From History

Content: This resource provides comprehensive coverage of the many events that define the framework of African American history, including social, cultural, and political movements, and the struggles to gain freedom, equality and civil rights. It emphasizes key events in the study of slavery, the abolitionist movement, civil rights, discrimination, voting rights, and Supreme Court decisions.

Note: VOLUME ONE : Overviews -- African-American cultural impact on US culture -- Black church -- Agriculture -- Sports -- Literature -- Science and Technology -- Cowboys -- Cubans and African Americans -- Demographic trends -- Economic trends -- Education -- Employment -- Film history -- Haitians -- Integration -- Irish and African Americans -- Jamaicans -- Jews and African Americans -- Koreans and African Americans -- Lynching -- The Media -- Military -- Music -- Native Americans and African Americans -- Politics and government -- Segregation -- Segregation on the frontier -- Sharecropping -- Slavery -- Slavery and families -- Slavery and women -- Slavery and race relations -- Slavery and the justice system -- Stereotypes -- West Indians -- Chronology of Events -- The Middle Passage to American Slavery -- Africans Arrive in Virginia -- Virginia Slave Codes -- Charles Town Is Founded -- Expansion of the Atlantic Slave Trade 18th century -- New York City Slave Revolt -- Settlement of the Carolinas -- Settlement of Georgia -- Stono Rebellion -- Caribbean Slave Rebellions -- African American Baptist Church Is Founded -- Pennsylvania Society for the Abolition of Slavery Is Founded -- Northeast States Abolish Slavery -- Freemasons in Boston -- Three-fifths compromise -- Free African Society Is Founded -- Northwest Ordinance -- Second Great Awakening -- Fugitive Slave Law of 1793 -- Whitney Invents the Cotton Gin -- Negro Conventions -- Social Reform Movement -- Missouri Compromise -- Denmark Vesey Revolt -- John Brown Russwurm publishes Freedom's Journal -- Turner's slave insurrection -- Garrison Begins Publishing The Liberator -- American Anti-Slavery Society Is Founded -- Texas Revolution -- AMISTAD Slave Revolt -- Groves v. Slaughter -- Lombard Street Race Riot of 1842 -- Muncy Abolitionist Riot of 1842 -- First Minstrel Shows -- Douglass Launches The North Star -- Harriet Tubman escapes to freedom -- Compromise of 1850 -- Fugitive Slave Law of 1850 -- Sojourner Truth speaks at Akron Woman's Rights Convention -- Sojourner Truth -- Stowe Publishes Uncle Tom's Cabin -- National Council of Colored People Is Founded -- Birth of the Republican Party -- Congress Passes the Kansas-Nebraska Act -- Emigration Convention of 1854 -- Bleeding Kansas -- First African American University Opens -- Dred Scott V. Sandford -- Lincoln-Douglas Debates -- Clotilde capture -- Brown's Raid on Harpers Ferry -- Lincoln Is Elected U.S. President -- Civil War -- Establishment of the Confederate States of America -- Lincoln Is Inaugurated President -- First Battle of Bull Run -- Confiscation Acts of 1861 and 1862 -- Lincoln Issues the Emancipation Proclamation -- 54th Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry Regiment Leads a Mass Assault against Fort Wagner -- Draft riots -- Battles of Gettysburg, Vicksburg, and Chattanooga -- Surrender at Appomattox and Assassination of Lincoln -- Sherman Marches Through Georgia and the Carolinas -- Juneteenth -- Watie Is Last Confederate General to Surrender -- Thirteenth Amendment Is Ratified -- Congress Creates the Freedmen's Bureau -- Birth of the Ku Klux Klan -- Black codes -- Reconstruction -- Buffalo soldiers -- The Civil Rights Act of 1866 -- Civil Rights Acts of 1866-1875 -- Memphis and New Orleans Race Riots of 1866 -- Pulaski Race Riot of 1867 -- Impeachment of Andrew Johnson -- Fourteenth Amendment Is Ratified -- Ku Klux Klan Acts -- Fifteenth Amendment -- Grandfather Clauses -- Colfax Massacre -- Slaughterhouse Cases -- Clinton Massacre -- United States v. Cruikshank -- United States v. Reese -- Hamburg Massacre of 1876 -- Charleston race riots -- Compromise of 1877 -- Strauder v. West Virginia -- Civil Rights Cases -- African-American Holiness Pentecostal Movement -- Louisville, New Orleans, and Texas Railway Company v. Mississippi -- Mississippi Disenfranchisement Laws; VOLUME TWO : Colored Women's League -- Ida B. Wells-Barnett publishes Southern Horrors: Lynch Law in all its Phases -- Atlanta Compromise -- Plessy v. Ferguson -- Separate but equal doctrine is created -- National Association of Colored Women -- Williams v. Mississippi -- Wilmington Race Riot of 1898 -- Joplin Popularizes Ragtime Music and Dance -- Cumming v. Richmond County Board of Education -- Race riots of the twentieth century -- Talented Tenth -- Founding of the Niagara Movement -- Black Sororities and Fraternities -- Brownsville incident -- Atlanta Race Riots of 1906 -- First Black Heavyweight Boxing Champion -- Springfield Race Riot of 1908 -- National Association for the Advancement of Colored People Is Founded -- Tennesee adopts the one-drop rule -- Handy Ushers in the Commercial Blues Era -- Great Migration -- National Urban League -- Griffith Releases The Birth Of A Nation -- Buchanan v. Warley -- Wentworth Arthur Matthew founds the Commandment Keepers Ethiopian Hebrew Congregation -- Garvey and Du Bois Conflict -- American Civil Liberties Union Is Founded -- Harlem Renaissance -- Newberry v. United States -- The Dyer Anti-lynching Bill -- Perry Race Riot of 1922 -- Rosewood Massacre -- Bessie Smith Records "Downhearted Blues" -- Moore v. Dempsey -- Oklahoma Imposes Martial Law in Response to KKK Violence -- American Negro Labor Congress -- Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters -- Armstrong Records with the Hot Five -- Baker Dances in La Revue Nègre -- White primaries -- Nixon v. Herndon -- Ellington Begins Performing at the Cotton Club -- Hallelujah Is the First Important Black Musical Film -- Nation of Islam Is Founded -- Scottsboro Trials -- Tuskegee experiment -- Nixon v. Condon -- Powell v. Alabama -- Billie Holiday Begins Her Recording Career -- Josephine Baker, the First Black Movie Star, ZouZou -- Black cabinet -- Grovey v. Townsend -- Norris v. Alabama -- National Council of Negro Women -- Missouri ex rel. Gaines v. Canada -- Anderson's Lincoln Memorial concert -- Wright's Native Son Depicts Racism in America -- National Association for the Advancement of Colored People Legal Defense and Educational Fund -- Black flight -- United States v. Classic -- Defense industry desegregation -- Fair Employment Practices Committee -- World War II -- Tuskegee Airmen -- Congress of Racial Equality Forms -- Chicago sit-ins -- Race Riots Erupt in Detroit and Harlem -- Stormy Weather Offers New Film Roles to African Americans -- Smith v. Allwright -- United Negro College Fund -- Parker's Playing Epitomizes Bebop -- Mahalia Jackson Begins Her Recording Career -- President's Committee on Civil Rights -- Baseball's racial integration -- Journey of Reconciliation -- Military desegregation -- Miles Davis Develops 1950's Cool Jazz -- Ralph Bunche Receives Nobel Prize -- Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man is Published -- Terry v. Adams -- Brown v. Board of Education -- Kenneth Clark's Doll Study Cited by Supreme Court in Brown V. Board of Education -- Bolling v. Sharpe -- White Citizens' Councils -- First Newport Jazz Festival Is Held -- Poitier Emerges as a Film Star in The Blackboard Jungle -- Berry's "Maybellene" Popularizes Rock and Roll -- Till Lynching -- Civil Rights movement -- Montgomery Bus Boycott -- Southern Manifesto -- Southern Christian Leadership Conference -- Civil Rights Act of 1957 -- Little Rock school desegregation crisis -- United States Commission on Civil Rights -- Ailey Founds His Dance Company -- Summit Meeting of National Negro Leaders -- National Association for the Advancement of Colored People v. Alabama -- Cooper v. Aaron -- Gordy Founds Motown Records -- Hansberry's A Raisin in the Sun Debuts on Broadway -- Church bombings -- Lassiter v. Northampton County Board of Elections -- Greensboro Sit-ins -- Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee -- Civil Rights Act of 1960 -- Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird Calls for Social Justice -- Wilma Rudolph Becomes the Fastest Woman in the World -- Gomillion v. Lightfoot -- Vietnam War -- Albany Movement -- Burton v. Wilmington Parking Authority -- Council of Federated Organizations -- Meredith Registers at the University

Language: English

Keywords: History.