Struggle for Freedom, The

Brief Contents

1. Ancient Africa
2. Africa and the Atlantic World
3. Africans in Early North America, 1619–1726
4. Africans in Bondage: Early Eighteenth Century to the American Revolution
5. The Revolutionary Era: Crossroads of Freedom
6. After the Revolution: Constructing Free Life and Combating Slavery, 1787–1816
7. African Americans in the Antebellum Era
8. African Americans in the Reform Era, 1831–1850
9. A Prelude to War: The 1850s
10. Civil War and the Promises of Freedom: The Turbulent 1860s
11. Post-Civil War Reconstruction: A New National Era
12. The Post-Reconstruction Era
13. “Colored” Becomes “Negro” in the Progressive Era
14. The Making of a “New Negro”: World War I to the Great Depression
15. The New Politics of the Great Depression
16. Fighting Fascism Abroad and Racism at Home
17. Emergence of a Mass Movement against Jim Crow
18. Marching toward Freedom, 1961–1966
19. Resistance, Repression, and Retrenchment, 1967–1978
20. The Search for New Directions During a Conservative Era, 1979–1991
21. Continuing Struggles over Rights and Identity, 1992–2004
22. Barack Obama and the Promise of Change, 2004–Present