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African American history. Volume 1

Mack-Williams, Kibibi, 1955- (Added Author).

Summary: This new 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. Just as the history of African Americans has been dominated by struggles for freedom and equal rights, articles in Great Events from History: African American History emphasize key events in the study of slavery, the abolitionist movement, civil rights, discrimination, voting rights, and Supreme Court decisions. Other events focus on arts and entertainment, Black Nationalism, crime and punishment, economic issues, education, military history, politics & government, religion, riots and civil disturbances and women's issues. Take a look at just some of the recent events that are included in this comprehensive source: * The election of Barack Obama in 2009* The opening of the Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial on the National Mall in Washington DC in 2011* The Black lives Matter movement of 2012* The "Hands Up, Don't Shoot" protests in Ferguson, MO in 2014. Essays have been supplemented with informational sidebars that will further inform a reader's understanding of the topics discussed, including primary source documents, court decisions, mission statements, laws, biographical profiles, and state statistics that will deepen a reader's understanding of the topic. Designed for high school, undergraduate and public libraries, this new resource provides students and researchers with comprehensive and accessible material designed to shed a new light on the study of African American history. -- Amazon.com.

Record details

ISBN: 9781682171547 (hardcover)
ISBN: 9781682171523 (set)
Physical Description: print
250 p. : ill. ; 27 cm.
Publisher: Ipswich, Massachusetts : Salem Press, a division of EBSCO Information Services, Inc., 2017.

Content descriptions

General Note:	"Some of the updated and revised essays in this work originally appeared in the following titles from the Great lives from history series: The 17th century (2005), The 18th century (2006), The 19th century (2006), The 20th century (2008), African Americans (2011)"--Title page verso.
Bibliography, etc. Note:	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Formatted Contents Note:	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.