With authoritative text and a wealth of full-color maps and illustrations, this volume details the cultural, historical, political, and social histories and experiences of African Americans. Coverage includes: The African Heritage: An overview of the African continent, the civilizations that have inhabited it, and the cultural traditions that it has fostered Slavery in Early America: The mechanics of the slavery system; the Triangle Trade and the Middle Passage; the invention of the cotton gin; black pioneers and westward expansion The Divided Nation: The American Civil War; the Missouri Compromise; the Abolitionist Movement; and the Emancipation Proclamation Up from Slavery: Reconstruction; the Freedman's Bureau; the sharecropping system; African Americans and higher education; The New Negro: The NAACP and the Urban League; the Jim Crow laws; the roles of African Americans in World War I and World War II; African Americans and the Great Depression; the New Deal The Civil Rights Years: The civil rights movement; Brown v. Board of Education; the Montgomery bus boycott; the life of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.; the freedom rides; Malcolm X and the rise of black nationalism The Struggle Continues: The demographics of black America; affirmative action; Louis Farrakhan and the Million Man March; African-American political power; a pan-African world. Excerpted from Atlas of African-American History by James Ciment All rights reserved by the original copyright owners. Excerpts are provided for display purposes only and may not be reproduced, reprinted or distributed without the written permission of the publisher.
