| Description |
xx, 553 pages ; 22 cm |
| Contents |
Of our spiritual strivings / W.E.B. Du Bois -- African history / Philip D. Curtin -- Kingdoms of the old Sudan / Basil Davidson -- Negro in the Americas / Frank Tannenbaum -- Slavery and the genesis of American race prejudice / Carl Degler -- Was slavery dying before the cotton gin? / Melvin Drimmer -- Slavery and the founding fathers / Straughton Lynd -- Evacuation with the British / Benjamin Quarles -- Historian and southern Negro slavery / Kenneth M. Stampp -- Motherhood in bondage / E. Franklin Frazier -- Black abolitionists / Leon Litwack -- Causes of the Civil War: a note on historical sentimentalism / Arthur M. Schlesinger -- Negro: innately inferior or equal? / James M. McPherson -- Even the slave becomes a man ... / Dudley T. Cornish |
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Reconstruction and its benefits / W.E.B. Du Bois -- Political legacy of reconstruction / C. Vann Woodward -- South's new leaders / John H. Franklin -- Capitalism to racism / C. Vann Woodward -- Booker t. Washington: an interpretation / August Meier -- W.E.B. Du Bois: Entente with white liberals, 1910-1920 / Franklin L. Broderick -- Come out from among them: Negro migration and settlement, 1890-1914 / Gilbert Osofsky -- Marcus Garvey: One aim! One God! One destiny! / E. David Cronon -- Background of the Negro renaissance / Robert A. Bone -- School segregation cases / Anthony Lewis -- On the role of Martin Luther King / A. Meier -- Black Muslims as a protest movement / C. Eric Lincoln -- Pilgrimage of Malcolm X / I.F. Stone -- Du Bois: A contemporary assessment / Harold R. Isaacs -- Notes on Negro American influences in the emergence of African nationalism / George Shepperson -- Why Negroes are still angry / Victor H. Bernstein |
| Notes |
Essays which present the Negro's role in American history, each prefaced by an analysis of the historical events surrounding the period it covers |
| Bibliography |
Bibliography: pages [531]-538 |
| Subject |
African Americans -- History.
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| Author |
Drimmer, Melvin.
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| LC no. |
67019105 |
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