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Before the Mayflower : a history of Black America
Title
Before the Mayflower : a history of Black America / Lerone Bennett Jr.
ISBN
0140072144
9780140072143
Edition
5th ed.
Published
Harmondsworth, Middlesex, England ; New York, N.Y. : Penguin Books, 1984.
Physical Description
xvi, 681 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm
Local Notes
BEIN 2018 5995: Number line: "15 14 13 12 11 10 9 8 7" on title page verso indicates 7th printing. Paperbound. From the library of Samuel R. Delany.
Notes
Reprint. Originally published: Chicago : Johnson Pub. Co., 1982.
Summary
In this completely revised edition of his superb history of black America, Lerone Bennett, Jr. brings his stirring narrative of the black experience up to date. Incorporating the insights of recent scholarship, Mr. Bennett traces black history from its origins in the great empires of western Africa, the transatlantic journey to slavery, through Reconstruction, the Jim Crow era, and the civil-rights upheavals of the 1960s and 1970s. Interspersed throughout the book are portraits of seminal figures in the struggles for freedom, and a completely updated section highlights black pioneers and their accomplishments. (Back cover).
Variant and related titles
History of Black America
Format
Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
July 22, 2020
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
African past
Before the Mayflower
Founding of Black America
Behind the cotton curtain
Blood on the leaves: revolts and conspiracies
Generation of crisis
Jubilee war: witnesses and warriors
Black power in the old South
Life and times of Jim Crow
Red, white and Black: race and sex
From Booker T. Washington to Martin Luther King Jr.
Time of the whale.
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Genre/Form
History.
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