1877-1964

A history of African-Americans in the years of the Jim Crow laws of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, looking at how African-American southerners struggled, worked, tried to educate themselves, and learned to live with the subordination and separation of their race.

Argues that the African American working class has fostered a subculture that exists outside of mainstream African American politics.

A detailed account of the sit-in at a Woolworth's lunch counter in Greensboro, North Carolina, in 1960, which ignited the civil rights movement in the United States.

Traces the history of Blacks in the United States from the Niagara Movement begun by W. E. B. DuBois to Roosevelt's New Deal.

Traces the history of blacks in the United States from Roosevelt's New Deal to the Supreme Court's ruling on Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka.

Examines the Reconstruction period of the south at the end of the Civil War and discusses such issues as the end of the Confederacy, Lincoln's and Johnson's opposing views, the Freedman's Bureau, Lincoln's assassination and the Johnson presidency, and African Americans in the post-war decades.

An introduction to the period in the 1920s known as the Harlem Renaissance, when the expression of African American creativity in many forms flourished.