Major Problems in African- American History

Volume II: From Freedom to "Freedom Now", 1865-1990s

Documents and essays edited by Thomas C. Holt and Elsa Barkley Brown

Houghton Mifflin, 2000 ISBn 0669462934 pb, 388pp

VERY GOOD used light wear / marks; spine slightly skewed, pages clean & tight

DESCRIPTION: "This text introduces students to both primary sources and analytical essays and is designed to encourage critical thinking about the history and culture of African Americans. The book presents a carefully selected group of readings organized to allow students to evaluate primary sources, test the interpretations of distinguished historians, and draw their own conclusions."

TABLE OF CONTENTS:

1. Interpreting African-American History
2. The Work of Reconstruction
3. Renegotiating African-American Life in the New South
4. Rural Exodus and the Growth of New Urban Communities
5. Defining a Race Politics
6. The Culture Wars
7. Opportunities Lost and Found
8. Origins of the Civil Rights Movement
9. The Civil Rights Movement
10. After "Freedom Now!"
11. Progress and Poverty: African Americans at the Dawn of the Twenty-First Century

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