In 1956 he went to Brooklyn College as Chair of the Department of History and in 1964, he joined the faculty of the University of Chicago, serving as Chair of the Department of History from 1967 to 1970. Augustine’s College, and Howard University. He taught at a number of institutions, including Fisk, St. degrees in history from Harvard University (19). A native of Oklahoma and a graduate of Fisk University (1935), he received the A.M. Duke Professor Emeritus of History, and for seven years was Professor of Legal History at Duke University Law School. The Voting Rights Act of 1965 Summary This work charts the journey of African Americans from their origins in the civilizations of Africa, through slavery in the Western Hemisphere, to their struggle for freedom in the West Indies, Latin America and the United States.CHAPTER 1: Ancestral Africa (circa 500 B.C.E to 1600)ĬHAPTER 2: Africans in the Atlantic World (1492–1800)ĬHAPTER 3: Establishing North American Slavery (1520s to 1720s)ĬHAPTER 4: Eighteenth-Century Slave Societies (1700–1780s)ĬHAPTER 6: Building Communities in the Early Republic (1790–1830)ĬHAPTER 8: Antebellum Free Blacks (1830–1860)ĬHAPTER 9: Abolitionism in Black and White (1820–1860)ĬHAPTER 11: Promises and Pitfalls of Reconstruction (1863–1877)ĬHAPTER 13: The Era of Self-Help (1880–1916)ĬHAPTER 14: In Pursuit of Democracy (1914–1919)ĬHAPTER 15: Voices of Protest (1910–1928)ĬHAPTER 16: The Arts at Home and Abroad (1920s to early 1930s)ĬHAPTER 18: Double V for Victory (1941–1945)ĬHAPTER 19: American Dilemmas (1940–1955)ĬHAPTER 20: We Shall Overcome (1947–1967)ĬHAPTER 22: Progress and Poverty (1980–2000)ĬHAPTER 23: Shifting Terrains in the New Century Kennedy: Special Message to the Congress on Civil Rights - App. Government's Responsibility: Securing the Rights - App. The United Nations and Human Welfare - 22. The World of African Americans One World or Two? - 21. Roosevelt's 'Black Cabinet' Government Agencies and Relief for Blacks. Socioeconomic Problems and African-American Literature. The Harlem Renaissance and the Politics of African-American Culture. Northern Philanthropy and African-American Education. The Movement for Disfranchisement The Triumph of White Supremacy - 14. Frontier Influences Black Pioneers in the Westward March. Blacks Fighting for American Independence. Slavery and the Revolutionary Philosophy. The Transplantation of African Culture - 3.

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