50 events that shaped African American history : an encyclopedia of the American mosaic

Summary: "This two-volume work celebrates 50 notable achievements of African Americans, highlighting black contributions to U.S. history and examining the ways black accomplishments shaped American culture"--

Record details

ISBN: 9781440837869
ISBN: 1440837864
ISBN: 9781440847547
ISBN: 1440847541
ISBN: 9781440847554
ISBN: 144084755X
ISBN: 9781440837876
Physical Description: print
2 volumes (xx, 861 pages) : illustrations ; 26 cm
Publisher: Santa Barbara, California : Greenwood, an Imprint of ABC-CLIO, LLC, [2019]

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Formatted Contents Note:

Trans-Atlantic slave trade, 1502-1888 / Christopher Cumo -- Nat Turner's Revolt, 1831 / Bethany Jay -- Abolitionist movement, 1830-1860 / Whitney Stewart, Jonathan A. Noyalas, Kevin R.C. Gutzman, Nancy A. McCaslin -- Compromise of 1850 / Kathleen Gronnerud -- Dred Scott v. Sanford, 1857 / Marty Kuhlman -- John Brown's raid, 1859 / Evan C. Rothera -- The United States Civil War, 1861-1865 / James Sandy -- Reconstruction Era, 1863-1877 / Loryn Clauson -- Establishment of black codes, 1866 / Lacey P. Hunter -- The exoduster movement, 1879-1881 / John Becker, Michael Thomas Gavin, Christopher Keith Johnson, P. Huston Ladner -- Atlanta Compromise, 1895 / Justin Williams, Bobby R. Holt -- Plessy v. Ferguson, 1896 / Rodney Montague, Michael S. Rodriguez -- The great migration, 1910-1960 / Jessica L. Parker -- The rise and fall of the Universal Negro Improvement Association, 1914-1940 / Jamie J. Wilson, Shawntel Lyn Ensminger -- The Harlem Renaissance, 1919-1930 / Jordan Hill -- Pan African Congresses, 1919-1949 / Esperanza Brizuela-Garcia, Walter Rucker -- Scottsboro boys 1931-1948 / Valerie R. Stackman -- Tuskegee syphilis experiment, 1932-1972 / Rueben C. Warren, Clayborne Carson, Mindy R. Weidman -- Jackie Robinson integrates major league baseball, 1947 / Thabiti Lewis, Amy Essington, Gregory Kaliss, Lew Freedman -- Integration of United States Armed Forces, 1947 / Janice D. Hamlet -- Freedom rides, 1947, 1961 / Matthew Gritter, Gerald Wayne Dowdy -- Brown vs. Board of Education, 1954 / Sarah Militz-Frielink, La Vonne Neal, & Alicia L. Moore -- The murder of Emmet Till, 1955 / Frank C. King, Jr., Lionel Kimble, Jr., David Kenneth Pye -- Montgomery bus boycott, 1955-1956 / Jamie J. Wilson, Dan Puckett, Erin Boade, Jennifer A. Lemak -- The founding of the Southern Christian Leadership Council, 1957 / Gabriel J. Atchison, Mindy R. Weidman -- Greensboro four and the sit-in movement, 1960 / Hettie V. Williams, Mary Jo Fairchild -- Project C: the Birmingham campaign, 1963 / Sondra Bickham Washington -- March on Washington for jobs and freedom, 1963 / Jamie J. Wilson -- The birth of soul: Stax and Motown Records, 1957-1967 / Tammy Kernodle, Katherine Gould, Amanda de la Garza -- Freedom summer, 1964 / Jamie Wilson, Claudette L. Tolson, Cristy Casado Tondeur, Paul T. Miller, William Mychael Sturkey -- War on poverty, 1964 / Jamie J. Wilson, Rickie Sanders, James A. Beckman -- Rights legislation: Civil Rights Act 1964 and Voting Rights Act, 1965 / John Barnhill, John Drabble -- Assassination of Malcolm X, 1965 / Bijan C. Bayne, Walter Rucker, Jamie J. Wilson -- The long hot summers: African American riots and rebellions, 1965-1968 / William P. Toth, Amanda J. Davis, Lacey P. Hunter, Mindy R. Weidman, Walter Rucker -- The Black power movement, 1966-1973 / Jamie J. Wilson, Sara K. Eskridge -- Loving v. Virginia, 1967 / Staci M. Rubin -- Assassination of Martin Luther King, 1968 / Andrew Joseph Pegoda -- Black arts movement, 1960-1975 / Nagueyalti Warren -- Rise and fall of the Black Panther Party, 1966-1983 / Jamie J. Wilson, Zoe Trodd -- Election of Shirley Chisholm to the U.S. Congress, 1968 / Matthew Gritter -- The birth of hip hop, 1970-1985 / Melissa Ursula Dawn Goldsmith -- Release of Shaft, 1971 / Jacynda Ammons -- Roots: the miniseries, 1976 / Renate L. Chancellor -- Launch of Oprah Winfrey Show, 1986 / Shennette Garrett-Scott -- African American Antiapartheid movement, 1937-1994 / Dawne Y. Curry, Walter Rucker, Clay M. Johnson -- Million man march, 1995 / Richard Thomas -- The war on drugs, 1971-2000s / Mathai V. Mathew, Glen Jeansonne, David Luhrssen, Jim Marshall, Richard Kent Evans -- Barack Obama wins the presidency, 2008 / Marilyn K. Howard, Terri Nichols -- Black lives matter movement, 2013-2017 / Rhonda Erica Celey -- National Museum of African American History and Culture opens, 2016 / Christopher Cumo.