We ain't what we ought to be : the Black freedom struggle, from emancipation to Obama
Title:
We ain't what we ought to be : the Black freedom struggle, from emancipation to Obama
Author:
Tuck, Stephen G. N.
Personal Author:
Publication Information:
Cambridge, Mass. : Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, [2010]
©2010
Physical Description:
viii, 494 pages, 24 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, portraits ; 24 cm
Language:
English
Contents:
The freedom war, 1861-1865 -- Freedom is not enough, 1865-1877 -- Resisting the juggernaut of White supremacy, 1878-1906 -- Black leaders reckon with Jim Crow, 1893-1916 -- Great War and Great Migration, 1917-1924 -- Renaissance in Harlem, dark ages elsewhere, 1924-1941 -- World War II and its aftermath, 1941-1948 -- Three steps forward, two steps back, 1949-1959 -- The Civil Rights movement, 1960-1965 -- Black power and grassroots protest, 1966-1978 -- Reagan, rap, and resistance, 1979-2000.
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ISBN:
9780674036260
Format :
Book
