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1 online resource |
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Facts on File library of American history |
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Facts on File library of American history.
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Abolitionist movement -- Accommodationism -- Adams, John Quincy -- Adarand Constructors Inc. v. Pena -- Affirmative action -- Affordable Care Act -- "African American" -- African-American convention movements -- African-American culture -- African-American education -- African-American elected officials -- African-American engagement in citizen diplomacy -- African-American interest groups -- African-American media -- African-American militancy -- African-American participation in state and local governments -- African-American political culture -- African-American political participation -- African-American politics -- African-American population -- African-American presidential campaigns -- African-American public intellectuals -- African-American public opinion -- African-American relationship with the presidency -- African-American representation in politics -- African-American studies -- African-American thought -- African-American voting behavior -- African Americans and the concept of self-help -- African Americans and the criminal justice system -- African Americans and the electoral college -- African Americans and the gay rights movement -- African Americans and the judicial process -- African Americans and the political system -- African Americans and the social-contract theory -- African Americans and the two-party system -- African Americans and the U.S. Congress -- African Americans and the U.S. Constitution -- African Americans in the bureaucracy -- African Americans in the military -- African Americans in Washington, D.C. -- African Blood Brotherhood -- African immigrants -- Afrocentricity -- AIDS-HIV among African Americans -- Ali, Muhammad -- Alienation in African-American culture -- Allen, Richard -- American Colonization Society -- American Muslim Mission -- American Negro Academy -- American welfare state -- An American Dilemma -- Apartheid -- Aptheker, Herbert -- Asante, Molefi K. -- Assimilation -- "Atlanta Compromise" Speech -- Atlanta University -- Back-to-Africa movements -- Baker, Ella -- Baker v. Carr -- Balance of power -- Baldwin, James -- "Ballot or the Bullet" Speech -- Bandung Conference -- Baraka, Amiri -- Barber II, William J. -- Barker, Lucius -- Belafonte, Harry -- Bell, Derrick -- Berry, Mary Frances -- Bethune, Mary McLeod -- Biden, Joseph R. -- Bill of Rights -- Birmingham demonstrations -- The Birth of a Nation -- "Black" -- Black agendas -- Black Arts Movement -- Black Cabinet -- Black church -- Black civic culture -- Black codes -- Black community -- Black Lives Matter -- Black nationalism -- Black Panther Party -- Black Power movement -- Black Power: The Politics of Liberation in America -- Black Radical Congress -- black religiosity -- blackness -- Blair Education bill -- Blyden, Edward Wilmot -- Boggs, Grace Lee and James -- Bond, Julian -- Booker, Cory -- Brennan, William J. -- Brooke, Edward W. -- Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters -- Brown, Elaine -- Brown, John -- Brown, Ron -- Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas -- Bruce, Blanche K. -- Buchanan, Patrick -- Buckley, William F., Jr. -- Bunche, Ralph -- Burris, Roland -- Bush, George W. -- Busing and education -- Capitalism in African-American culture -- Carmichael, Stokely -- Carson, Benjamin -- Carter, Jimmy -- Chisholm, Shirley -- Citizenship and African Americans -- City of Richmond v. J.A. Croson -- Civil disobedience -- Civil liberties -- Civil rights -- Civil Rights Act, 1964 -- Civil rights cases of 1883 -- Civil Rights Commission -- Civil Rights Division (CRD) -- Civil Rights movement -- Civil War -- Clark, Kenneth -- Class stratification -- Clinton, Bill -- Clyburn, James -- Co-optation in African-American politics -- Coalition of Black Trade Unionists -- Coalitions in African-American politics -- Cohen, Cathy J. -- COINTELPRO -- Cold War and African-American politics -- Colfax massacre -- Colonialism -- Color stratification -- Commerce clause in the U.S. Constitution -- Communism in African-American politics -- Communist Party -- community control -- Compromise of 1877 -- Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) -- Congressional Black Caucus -- Connerly, Ward -- Conservatism in African-American politics -- Conservative coalition -- Constitutionalism -- Cook, Samuel Du Bois -- Cooper, Anna Julia -- Coronavirus pandemic -- Council on African Affairs -- Cowan, Mo -- CROWN Act -- Crummell, Alexander -- Cruse, Harold -- Cultural nationalism -- Culture of poverty -- Cumming v. Board of Education -- Davis, Angela Y. -- Davis, Artur -- Dawson, William L. -- Declaration of Independence -- Delany, Martin Robison -- Dellums, Ron -- Democracy and African-American politics -- Democracy in America -- Democratic Party -- Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) -- deracialization -- Desegregation -- Diggs, Charles, Jr. -- Discrimination -- Disparate impact -- Disparate treatment -- Douglass, Frederick -- DuBois, W.E.B. -- Due process clauses in the U.S. Constitution -- Dyer antilynching bill -- Elementary and Secondary Education Act -- Ellison, Keith -- Emancipation Proclamation -- Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) -- Equal protection clause in the U.S. Constitution -- Equality in African-American politics -- Ethnicity -- Evers, Medgar -- Executive orders and civil rights -- "Eyes on the Prize" -- Fanon, Frantz -- Farmer, James -- Farrakhan, Louis -- Feagin, Joe -- Federal Bureau of Investigation and the Civil Rights movement -- Federalism and African-American politics -- Feminism and African-American culture -- Fifteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution -- Filibuster -- Fletcher, Arthur, Jr. -- Foreign policy and African-American politics -- Forten, James -- "Forty acres and a mule" -- Fourteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution -- Franklin, John Hope -- "Free Negroes" -- Freedmen's Bureau -- Freedom in African-American politics -- Freedom Rides -- Freedom Summer -- Fugitive slave clause in the U.S. Constitution -- Full employment -- Fuller, Hoyt -- Fullilove v. Klutznick -- Gag rule -- Garnet, Henry Highland -- Garrison, William Lloyd -- Garvey, Marcus -- Garza, Alicia -- George Floyd protests -- Gettysburg Address -- Ghetto -- Ginsberg, Ruth Bader -- Globalization -- Goldwater, Barry -- Grant, Ulysses S. -- Gray, William -- Great Migration -- Great Society -- Gregory, Dick -- Griggs v. Duke Power Co. -- Haiti, Republic of -- Hamer, Fannie Lou -- Hamilton, Charles V. -- Hare, Nathan -- Harlem -- Harlem Renaissance -- Harris, Kamala D. -- Harris, Patricia Roberts -- Harrison, Benjamin -- Hatcher, Richard -- Hawkins, Augustus -- Hayes, Rutherford B. -- Heart of Atlanta Motel v. United States -- Height, Dorothy -- Highlander Folk School -- Historically black colleges and universities -- Holden, Matthew, Jr. -- Holder, Eric -- Hoover, Edgar, J. -- Houston, Charles H. -- Howard University -- Human rights and African-American politics -- Humphrey-Hawkins Act -- Humphrey, Hubert H. -- Hurricane Katrina -- "I Have a Dream" Speech -- Individual racism -- Individualism among African-Americans -- Institutional racism -- Integration -- Internal colonialism -- Internal inferiorization -- Intersectionality -- Jackson, Jesse -- Jefferson, Thomas -- Jim Crow -- Johnson, Andrew -- Johnson, James Weldon -- Johnson, Lyndon B. -- Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies -- Jones, J. Raymond -- Jones, Mack H. -- Jordan, Vernon E., Jr. -- Juneteenth -- Kaepernick, Colin -- Karenga, Maulana -- Kennedy, Edward M. -- Kennedy, John F. -- Kerner Report -- Keyes, Alan -- Keyes v. School District No. 1, Denver, Colorado -- King, Martin Luther, Jr. -- King, Martin Luther, Jr., Holiday -- King, Rodney -- Ku Klux Klan (KKK) -- Kwanzaa -- Langston, John M. -- Lawson, James -- Leadership Conference on Civil Rights -- Leadership in African-American politics -- Legal Defense Fund (LDF) -- Lewis, John Robert -- Liberalism in African-American politics -- Liberia, Republic of -- "Lift Every Voice and Sing" -- Lightfoot, Lori 822 Lincoln, Abraham -- litigation by African Americans -- lobbying by African Americans -- Logan, Rayford -- Lorde, Audre -- Lynching -- Malcolm X -- Marable, Manning -- March Against Fear -- March on Washington, 1963 -- March on Washington movement -- Marshall, Thurgood -- Martin, Louis -- Martin, Trayvon -- Mayfield, Curtis -- McCarthyism and African-American politics -- McClain, Paula -- McGovern, George -- Melting pot -- Meredith, James -- Miller, Kelly -- Milliken v. Bradley -- Million Man March -- Minority group -- Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party (MFDP) -- Mitchell, Clarence M. -- Montgomery Bus Boycott -- Montgomery, Isaiah T. -- Morrow, Frederic -- Moseley Braun, Carol -- Moses, Robert -- Muhammad, Elijah -- multiculturalism -- Music in African-American culture -- Myrdal, Gunnar -- Names controversy -- Nash, Diane -- Nation of Islam -- National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) -- National Association of Colored Women (NACW) -- National Baptist Convention -- National Black Election Study -- National Black Leadership Roundtable -- National Black Political Convention -- National Conference of Black Political Scientists -- National Council of Negro Women -- National Negro Congress -- National Negro Convention -- National Political Congress of Black Women -- National Urban League -- National Welfare Rights Organization -- Natural rights and African Americans -- Negritude -- Nelson, William "Nick" -- Neo-slavery -- New Deal -- Newton, Huey P. -- Niagara movement -- Nixon, Richard -- Obadele, Imari A. -- Obama, Barack -- Office of Federal Contract Compliance -- Operation PUSH -- Oppression -- Organization of Afro-American Unity -- organizations in the African-American community -- Pan-Africanism -- Parks, Rosa -- Patrick, Deval -- Patterson, David -- Philadelphia Plan -- Pierce, Samuel -- Pinderhughes, Dianne -- Piven, Frances Fox |
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Plessy v. Ferguson -- Pluraism and African-American politics -- Political incorporation of African Americans -- Political parties and African Americans -- Political Polarization -- Political repression of African Americans -- Political socialization in the African-American community -- Poor People's Campaign -- Populist movements in African-American politics -- Post-civil rights era -- Poverty in the African-American community -- Powell, Adam Clayton, Jr. -- Powell, Colin -- Power elite -- Power in African-American politics -- Prestage, Jewel Limar -- Proposition 209 -- Protest in African-American politics -- Public policy toward African Americans -- Quotas -- Race -- Race, Ethnicity, and Politics (REP) -- Race issues and the U.S. Census -- Racism -- Radical Republicans -- Radicalism in African-American politics -- Rainbow Coalition -- Rainey, Joseph -- Randolph, A. Philip -- Rap -- Reagan, Ronald -- Reconstruction -- Reed, Adolph, Jr. -- Regents of the University of California v. Bakke -- Reparations -- Republic of New Africa -- Republican Party -- Revels, Hiram -- Rice, Condoleezza -- Rice, Susan -- riots -- Robeson, Paul -- Robinson, Jackie -- Robinson, Randall -- Robinson, Ruby Doris Smith -- Roosevelt, Franklin D. -- Rowan, Carl -- Rustin, Bayard -- Sanders, Bernie -- Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture -- Schuyler, George -- Scott, Tim -- Scott v. Sanford -- Seale, Bobby -- Segregation -- Selma demonstrations -- "Separate but equal" -- Separation of powers -- Sexism -- Sharpton, Al -- Shaw v. Reno -- Shelby County, Alabama v. Holder -- Simone, Nina -- Sit-in movement -- Slaughterhouse cases -- Slave revolts -- Slavery -- Slavery in Western thought -- Social movements -- Socialism -- Socialist Party -- The Souls of Black Folk -- Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) -- Southern states -- "Southern strategy" -- Sowell, Thomas -- Spingarn, Joel E. -- Steele, Michael -- Stevens, Thaddeus -- Stewart, Maria W. -- Stokes, Carl -- "Strange Fruit" -- Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) -- Sullivan, Leon -- Sumner, Charles -- Supreme Court -- Swann v. Charlotte-Mecklenburg Board of Education -- Talented Tenth -- Tate, Merze -- Terrell, Mary Church -- Third parties -- Third World -- Thirteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution -- Thomas, Clarence -- Three-fifths clause in the U.S. Constitution -- Till, Emmett -- Tillmon, Johnnie -- TransAfrica -- Trotter, William Monroe -- Truman, Harry S. -- Trump, Donald -- Truth, Sojourner -- Tubman, Harriet -- Turner, Henry McNeal -- Turner, James -- Turner, Nat -- Tuskegee Institute -- Twenty-Fourth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution -- Twenty-Third Amendment to the U.S. Constitution -- U.S. Justice Department -- "Uncle Tom" -- Uncle Tom's Cabin -- Underclass -- United Nations and African-American politics -- Universal Declaration of Human Rights -- Universal Negro Improvement Association -- Urban politics -- Vietnam War -- Violence in African-American politics -- Voting Rights Act of 1965 -- Voting rights struggle -- Walker, David -- Wallace, George -- Walters, Ronald -- Walton, Hanes, Jr. -- War on Poverty -- Wards Cove v. Antonio -- Warnock, Raphael -- Warren, Earl -- Washington, Booker T. -- Watts, J.C. -- Watts riot -- "We Shall Overcome" -- Weaver, Robert C. -- Wells-Barnett, Ida B. -- West, Cornel -- West Indians -- White backlash -- "White flight" -- White, George H. -- White Nationalism -- White primary -- White supremacy -- White, Walter F. -- Whiteness -- Wilder, Douglas L. -- Wilkins, Roy -- Wilson, William Julius -- Wilson, Woodrow -- Woodson, Carter -- Wright, Jeremiah -- Young, Andrew -- Young, Whitney M |
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This A-to-Z volume examines the role of African Americans in the political process from the early days of the American Revolution to the present |
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9-Academic |
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Publisher website; title from digital cover (viewed on August 23, 2022) |
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African Americans -- Politics and government -- Encyclopedias
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African Americans -- History -- Encyclopedias
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Politics and government
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United States -- History. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85140130
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United States
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Encycopedias
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encyclopedias.
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History
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Encyclopedias.
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Encyclopédies.
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Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781438199399 |
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1438199392 |
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