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Struggle for Freedom, The: A History of African Americans, Concise Edition, Volume 2 (Penguin A...

ISBN: 9780321355744 | 0321355741
Edition: 2nd
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Prentice Hall
Pub. Date: 1/1/2011

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SummaryTable of Contents
"The Struggle for Freedom, "a narrative of the black experience in America, uses a distinctive biographical approach to guide the story and animate the history. In each chapter, individual African Americans are the pivot points on which historical changes of the era turn. Life stories capture the rush of events that envelop individuals and illuminate the momentous decisions that, collectively, frame the American past and present. Inasmuch as that history is grounded in struggle- in the consistent and insistent call to the United States to deliv... MORE
Prefacexiv
CHAPTER 11 POST-CIVIL WAR RECONSTRUCTION: A NEW NATIONAL ERA253(28)
Emanuel Fortune Testifies Before Congress
253(3)
Postwa... MORE
256(7)
Radical Reconstruction
256(2)
Presidential Reconstruction
258(1)
The Fifteenth Amendment
259(1)
Black Suffrage and Woman Suffrage
259(4)
Elected Black Leaders
263(9)
Local Politics in the South
267(2)
White Backlash
269(1)
The Enforcement Acts
270(1)
The Freedmen's Bank
271(1)
Washington, DC, in the New National Era
272(3)
The Black Elite
272(1)
The Black Working Class and Poor
273(1)
Political Patronage and Politics
274(1)
The End of Reconstruction
275(1)
Waning Federal Sympathy
275(1)
The Compromise of 1877
276(1)
African Americans on the Move
276
The Exodusters
277(1)
The Western Frontier
278(1)
To Africa
279
Conclusion
180(101)
CHAPTER 12 THE POST-RECONSTRUCTION ERA281(30)
Booker T. Washington Teaches Black Self-Sufficiency
281(3)
Rebuilding the South
284(6)
Farm Labor and Poverty'
284(3)
Jim Crow
287(1)
The Rise of Booker T Washington
288(2)
The New South
290(1)
Social Darwinism
290(1)
Education: Making a Living and a Life
291(4)
Black Schools: Practical Training and Liberal Arts
292(2)
Segregated or Integrated Schools?
294(1)
Education and Gender identity
295(1)
The Lure of Cities
295(5)
Urban Community Life
295(3)
Federal Appointments
298(1)
Black Towns
298(2)
The Economics and Politics of Unity
300(3)
Unions
300(2)
Interracial Alliances and Populism
302(1)
Finding a Place to Uplift the Race
303(4)
Migration Within the South
304(1)
Western Soldiers, Pioneers, and New Opportunities
304(2)
Rethinking Africa
306(1)
Terror and Accommodation
307(2)
Campaign Against Lynching
308(1)
The Atlanta Compromise
308(1)
Conclusion
309(2)
CHAPTER 13 "COLORED" BECOMES "NEGRO" IN THE PROGRESSIVE ERA311(28)
Mary Church Terrell and the NACW
311(3)
Racial Segregation
314(4)
"Separate But Equal"
314(2)
Progressivism and White Supremacy
316(1)
"Colored" Becomes "Negro"
317(1)
The Problem of the "Color Line"
318(4)
Pan-Africanism
318(2)
Black Americans and the Spanish-American War
320(1)
The Brownsville Incident
321(1)
Accommodation or Agitation?
322(3)
Opposition to Washington
322(2)
The Niagara Movement and the NAACP
324(1)
Black Culture
325(4)
Music, Poetry, Composition
326(2)
Sports
328(1)
Black Progress
329(6)
Harlem and the Urban League
330(1)
Churches and Clubs
331(1)
New Charismatic Leaders
332(3)
The "New Abolition"
335(2)
The NAACP Legal Assault
336(1)
The End of Booker T. Washington and Accommodation
336(1)
The Amenia Conference
337(1)
Conclusion
337(2)
CHAPTER 14 THE MAKING OF A "NEW NEGRO": WORLD WAR I TO THE GREAT DEPRESSION339(28)
Thomas Edward Jones to the European Front
339(3)
"Over There"...and Back Here
342(6)
Black Americans and World War
342(2)
The Great Migration
344(2)
Race Riots and Revival of the Klan
346(1)
Black Americans and the Red Scare
347(1)
The Challenge of Garveyism
348(6)
The Universal Negro Improvement Association
349(1)
"Negro Nation"
350(1)
Pan-Africanism
351(1)
Garvey's Decline
352(1)
The NAACP and the Urban League in the 1920's
352(2)
New Beginnings in the City
354(3)
A Rising Standard of Living
355(1)
Segregated Neighborhoods
356(1)
The Harlem Renaissance and the "New Negro"
357(6)
The Negro Genius
358(1)
Langston Hughes
358(2)
Zora Neale Hurston
360(1)
The New Negro Woman
361(1)
The Harlem Renaissance and White America
361(2)
The Jazz Age
363(1)
The Chicago Style of Jazz
363(1)
Black Women Sing the Blues
364(1)
Political Goals and Setbacks in the 1920's
364(2)
Conclusion
366(1)
CHAPTER 15 THE NEW POLITICS OF THE GREAT DEPRESSION367(28)
The Scottsboro Boys
367(4)
African Americans in Desperate Times
371(5)
Du Bois Ponders Political Alternatives
371(1)
Black Reds
372(1)
The Scottsboro Campaign
373(2)
Clamping Down on Black Radicalism
375(1)
Election of 1932
375(1)
Black Militancy
376(5)
A New Course for the NAACP
376(3)
Black Nationalists
379(1)
Social Gospel Ministers
379(1)
Activist Black Intellectuals
380(1)
A New Deal for African Americans?
381(6)
Mary McLeod Bethune
382(2)
Black Critics of the New Deal
384(2)
Gains and Setbacks
386(1)
Black Artists and the Cultural Mainstream
387(7)
Margaret Walker and the Works Progress Administration
387(1)
Paul Robeson and the Black Role in Hollywood
388(1)
The Swing Era
389(2)
Native Son and the Decline of Leftist Radicalism
391(3)
Conclusion
394(1)
CHAPTER 16 FIGHTING FASCISM ABROAD AND RACISM AT HOME395(28)
A. Philip Randolph Challenges President Franklin D. Roosevelt
395(3)
African Americans in the Armed Forces
398(6)
William H. Hastie and Jim Crow in the Military
399(2)
The Double-V Campaign
401(3)
Racial Issues on the Home Front
404(5)
Pauli Murray and "Jane" Crow
405(1)
Wartime Race Riots
406(1)
The NAACP's New Legal Thrust
407(2)
Postwar Dilemmas
409(2)
Racial Understanding and Racist Violence
409(1)
Colonialism and the United Nations
410(1)
Cold War Split in African American Politics
411(5)
Loyalty Issues and Internationalist Appeals
412(2)
The 1948 Election and the Decline of the Black Left
414(1)
Era of NAACP Dominance
415(1)
Racial Dimensions of Postwar Popular Culture
416(5)
Decline of Swing and the Rise of Rhythm and Blues
417(1)
Black Americans in Hollywood
418(1)
Jackie Robinson and the Major Leagues
418(3)
Conclusion
421(2)
CHAPTER 17 EMERGENCE OF A MASS MOVEMENT AGAINST JIM CROW423(27)
Barbara Johns Leads a Student Strike
423(3)
The Road to Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka
426(8)
The Attack on "Separate But Equal.'
426(2)
The NAACP's School Desegregation Suits
428(2)
The Brown Decision
430(2)
Building on the Brown Breakthrough
432(2)
The Montgomery Bus Boycott and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference
434(6)
A Community Revolts
435(1)
Martin Luther King Jr. and Boycott Leadership
436(2)
The Founding of SCLC and King's Widening Influence
438(2)
The Little Rock Nine
440(4)
Constitutional Rights Versus Mob Violence
441(2)
Stirrings of Grassroots Revolt
443(1)
The Student Sit-In Movement
444(4)
Spread of the Sit-Ins
445(1)
A New Black Consciousness
446(2)
Conclusion
448(2)
CHAPTER 18 MARCHING TOWARD FREEDOM, 1961-1966450(29)
Freedom Riders Challenge Segregation
450(3)
Grassroots Struggles in the Deep South
453(4)
Voter Registration in Mississippi
455(1)
The Albany Movement
456(1)
The Nationalization of Civil Rights
457(8)
King and the Children's Crusade
458(2)
James Baldwin and the New Black Militancy
460(2)
March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom
462(3)
Freedom Summer and the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party
465(3)
The Freedom Democratic Party and the 1964 Summer Project
465(1)
The 1964 Democratic Convention
466(2)
Malcolm X and the Freedom Struggle
468(3)
Break with the Nation of Islam
468(1)
The Final Months
469(2)
Voting Rights and Violence
471(3)
The Selma-to-Montgomery March
471(2)
The Voting Rights Act of 1965
473(1)
Black Power
474(3)
Conclusion
477(2)
CHAPTER 19 RESISTANCE, REPRESSION, AND RETRENCHMENT, 1967-1978479(27)
Hubert "Rap" Brown Proclaims Black Power
479(2)
A New Racial Consciousness
481(3)
King and the Wars Against Communism and Poverty
484(5)
Racial Violence and White Repression
486(2)
The Poor People's Campaign and Memphis
488(1)
Black Soldiers in Vietnam
489(2)
The Rise and Fall of the Black Power Militancy
491(6)
The Emergence of Eldridge Cleaver
492(1)
High Tide of Black Rebellion
493(2)
Targeting the Black "Messiah"
495(1)
Attica and the Eclipse of the Black Panthers
496(1)
Diverging Directions of Black Politics
497(8)
The National Black Political Convention
498(3)
The Supreme Court's Bakke Decision
501(1)
The Carter Presidency and the Transformation of Black Leadership
501(2)
The Roots Phenomenon
503(2)
Conclusion
505(1)
CHAPTER 20 THE SEARCH FOR NEW DIRECTIONS DURING A CONSERVATIVE ERA, 1979-1991506(23)
Michele Wallace on the Discontents of Black Women
506(3)
Finding a Place in the Political System
509(4)
A New Conservative Era
510(1)
Reaganism and the Debate over Affirmative Action
510(3)
Jesse Jackson's 1984 Presidential Campaign
513(4)
The Harold Washington Campaign
515(1)
Run, Jesse, Run
515(2)
The Free South Africa Campaign
517(2)
The Popularization of Modern Black Feminism
519(6)
The Color Purple Controversy
520(2)
Race and Popular Culture
522(2)
Hip Hop and Gangsta Rap
524(1)
Racial Progress and Internal Tensions
525(3)
Anita Hill Versus Clarence Thomas
526(2)
Conclusion
528(1)
CHAPTER 21 CONTINUING STRUGGLES OVER RIGHTS AND IDENTITY, 1992—PRESENT529
Oprah Winfrey and Social Healing
529(4)
A New Day for African Americans?
533(4)
Racial Dilemmas of the Clinton Presidency
534(1)
The Lani Guinier Affair
535(1)
Ending Welfare and Continuing Poverty
536(1)
Race and the Criminal Justice System
537(7)
The O.J. Simpson Case
538(2)
The Prison System of Racial Control
540(2)
The Million Man March and Racial Atonement
542(2)
Rethinking the Meaning of Race
544(7)
A Difficult "Conversation on Race"
545(1)
Affirmative Action and Reparations
546(2)
Redefining Black
548(1)
2000 Census Documents a Multiracial Nation
549(2)
Democracy and the Legacy of Race
551(3)
The Disputed 2000 Election
551(1)
African Americans in an Interdependent World
552(2)
Conclusion
554
APPENDIXA-1
The Declaration of Independence
A-3
The Constitution of the United States of America
A-5
Amendments to the Constitution
A-13
Dred Scott v. Sandford (1857)
A-19
The Emancipation Proclamation
A-23
Plessy v. Ferguson (1896)
A-24
Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka (1954)
A-25
Key Provisions of the Civil Rights Act of 1964
A-26
Key Provisions of the Voting Rights Act of 1965
A-31
Photo CreditsC-1
IndexI-1

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