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1 online resource |
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Chronologies of American history and experience |
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Chronologies of American history and experience.
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| Contents |
The African American Years: Chronology -- The Colonial Period and the Revolutionary War -- The First Africans to Arrive in the New World -- Free African Americans in the United States -- African American Soldiers in the Colonial Period -- The Debate over Slavery in the United States -- The Civil War -- The Final Century of Slavery in the United States -- African Americans and the Civil War -- Reconstruction -- Reconstruction and the Rise of Jim Crow -- African Americans in Political Office -- African Americans on the Frontier -- African American Newspapers and Periodicals -- The Long Journey Toward Integration -- African Americans and the Law -- The Education of African Americans -- The Ongoing Effort for Inclusion in the Military -- African Americans in the Modern Era -- Migration, Industrialization, and the City -- The History of African American Music -- African American Folklore and Folkways -- The African American Literary Experience -- The African American Family -- The African American Religious Experience -- African Americans Coming to the Fore of American Identity -- The Civil Rights Struggle: From Nonviolence to Black Power -- The African American Intellectual Experience -- African Americans in the Sciences -- African American Labor History -- The Art of African Americans -- The Close of the Twentieth Century and Beyond |
| Summary |
This chronology presents the history of African Americans from pre-colonial times to the present. Includes overview essays, sidebars, and primary sources, and over 200 images that chronicle the story of African Americans' struggles, triumphs, complexity, and exuberance. Features include a comprehensive index and a primary document index; sidebars spotlighting specific people and topics; and a bibliography for each topical chapter |
| Notes |
Available through the Gale virtual reference library |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and indexes |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
African Americans -- History -- Chronology.
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African Americans -- History -- Sources.
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African Americans.
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Geschichte
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HISTORY -- United States -- State & Local -- General.
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Schwarze.
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USA.
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| Genre/Form |
Chronologies.
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History.
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Sources.
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Zeittafel.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Stepto, Gabriel.
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| ISBN |
0684312573 |
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0684314290 |
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9780684312576 |
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9780684314297 |
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