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We ain't what we ought to be : the Black freedom struggle from emancipation to Obama
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We ain't what we ought to be : the Black freedom struggle from emancipation to Obama / Stephen Tuck.
ISBN
9780674036260 (alk. paper)
0674036263 (alk. paper)
Published
Cambridge, Mass. : Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2010.
Physical Description
viii, 494 pages, 24 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Format
Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
January 28, 2010
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Prologue
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
Epilogue.
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