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Encyclopedia of African American history, 1896 to the present : from the age of segregation to the twenty-first century / editor in chief, Paul Finkelman.
LIBRA E185 .E5453 2009 v.1-5
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Log in to request item- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- African Americans--History--Encyclopedias.
- African Americans.
- African Americans--History--1877-1964--Encyclopedias.
- African Americans--History--1964---Encyclopedias.
- African Americans--Biography--Encyclopedias.
- African Americans--Biography.
- History.
- Genre:
- Encyclopedias.
- Biographies.
- Physical Description:
- 5 volumes : illustrations ; 29 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Oxford University Press, 2009.
- Summary:
- Focusing on the making of African American society from the 1896 "separate but equal" ruling of Plessy v. Ferguson up to the contemporary period, this encyclopedia traces the transition from the Reconstruction Era to the age of Jim Crow, the Harlem Renaissance, the Great Migration, the Brown ruling that overturned Plessy, the Civil Rights Movement, and the ascendant influence of African-American culture on the American cultural landscape.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Rosengarten Family Fund.
- ISBN:
- 9780195167795
- 0195167791
- OCLC:
- 239240886
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