From plantation to ghetto / by August Meier and Elliott Rudwick.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Meier, August, 1923-2003.

Rudwick, Elliott M., author.

Series:

American century series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

African Americans--History.

African Americans.

History.

Physical Description:

x, 406 pages ; 21 cm.

Edition:

Third edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : Hill and Wang, 1976.

Summary:

This definitive work in African American history begins with the earliest experiences of blacks in the United States and offers an in-depth account of slavery, post-Civil War urban life, the place of religion in African American life, political activism, and the changing occupational and economic status of blacks. Meier and Rudwick focus especially on the rise and accomplishments of such organizations as the NAACP, CORE, and SNCC, and of individual thinkers and protesters (A. Philip Randolph, Bayard Rustin, Martin Luther King, Jr., and other civil rights leaders). The result is the most comprehensive history available of black ideologies and protest movements throughout our history, and particularly in the twentieth century.

Contents:

Chapter I The West African Heritage and Afro-American History 3

Chapter II Black Men in Agrarian America: Slavery and the Plantation 27

Chapter III Negroes in the Antebellum Cities: Manumission, Alienation, and Protest 87

Chapter IV A Dream Betrayed: Negroes During the Civil War and Reconstruction 153

Chapter V "Up from Slavery": The Age of Accommodation 194

Chapter VI Black Men in the Urban Age: The Rise of the Ghetto 232

Chapter VII The Black Revolt of the 1960's 271

Chapter VIII The Legacy of the Black Revolt 314

Map of West Africa 9

Map of the Slave Coast 28.

Notes:

Includes index.

Bibliography: pages 359-387.

ISBN:

0809047926 :

OCLC:

1975237