Term paper resource guide to African American history / Caryn E. Neumann.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Neumann, Caryn E., 1965-

Contributor:

Anne and Joseph Trachtman Memorial Book Fund.

Series:

American mosaic (Greenwood Press (Westport, Conn.))

The American mosaic

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

African Americans--History--Study and teaching.

African Americans.

African Americans--History.

History.

African Americans--History--Bibliography.

Report writing--Handbooks, manuals, etc.

Report writing.

Genre:

Bibliographies.

Handbooks and manuals.

Physical Description:

xiii, 304 pages ; 25 cm.

Place of Publication:

Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press, 2009.

Contents:

Atlantic slave trade expands to North America (1581)

Slavery is introduced to Virginia (1619)

Slave codes are established (1660s)

Bacon's Rebellion (1675)

The great awakening (1720s-1760s)

Stono Rebellion (1739)

New York conspiracy trials (1741)

George Washington bans Black men from revolutionary forces (1775)

Lord Dunmore offers freedom to Blacks who join the British (1775)

Declaration of Independence (1776)

Northwest ordinance bars slavery from western territories (1787)

3/5 Compromise is added to the Constitution (1787)

Cotton gin is invented (1793)

Gabriel's Rebellion (1800)

New Jersey becomes the last northern state to abolish slavery (1804)

Congress ends U.S. participation in the Atlantic slave trade (1808)

Richard Allen establishes the African Methodist Church (1816)

American colonization society establishes Liberia (1816)

Denmark Vesey's Rebellion (1822)

Nat Turner's rebellion (1831)

American Anti-slavery Society is founded (1833)

Amistad mutiny (1839)

Narrative of the life of Frederick Douglass, written by himself is published (1845)

Sojourner Truth gives "Ain't I a woman?" speech (1850)

Compromise of 1850

Underground Railroad increases its efforts to aid runaway slaves (1850)

Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's cabin is published (1851)

Kansas-Nebraska Act establishes popular sovereignty (1854)

Senator Charles Sumner is attacked in the Senate (1856)

George Fitzhugh of Virginia argues the benefits of slavery (1857)

Dred Scott Decision (1857)

John Brown's attack on Harper's Ferry (1859)

Abraham Lincoln issues the Emancipation Proclamation (1862)

Blacks enlist in the 54th Massachusetts Regiment (1863)

Congress and President Lincoln devise rival forms of reconstruction (1864)

Sharecropping is established (1865)

Thirteenth Amendment is ratified (1865)

Freedmen's Bureau is created (1865)

Black codes are passed (1865-1866)

Ku Klux Klan is formed (1866)

Fourteenth Amendment is ratified (1868)

Fifteenth Amendment is ratified (1870)

First Black men elected to the U.S. Congress (1870)

Compromise of 1877

Kansas Exodus Joint Stock Company sends emigrants west (1879)

Tuskegee Institute is founded (1881)

Colored Farmers' Alliance representatives help found the Populist Party (1892)

Ida B. Wells denounces lynching (1892)

Booker T. Washington delivers Atlanta Compromise speech (1895)

Plessy v. Ferguson (1896)

Buffalo Soldiers serve in the American West and Spanish American War (1890s)

Scott Joplin's "Maple leaf rag" establishes ragtime as an American musical form (1899)

W.E.B. du Bois publishes The souls of black folk (1903)

Jack Johnson becomes the first Black heavyweight boxing champion (1908)

Formation of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) (1909)

Charles Davenport publishes Eugenics : the science of human improvement by better breeding (1910)

Universal Negro Improvement Association (UNIA) founded (1914)

The birth of a nation rejuvenates the Ku Klux Klan (1915)

The Great Migration (1915-1920)

Race riots (1919-1921)

Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters (BSCP) is founded (1925)

Harlem Renaissance (1920s)

Elijah Muhammad joins the Nation of Islam (1931)

The Scottsboro Boys case (1931)

Mississippi Health Project begins (1934)

Boxer Joe Louis defeats Primo Carnera (1935)

Mary McLeod Bethune joins the New Deal (1936)

March on Washington's Double V campaign (1941)

Tuskegee Airmen silence skeptics with victories in Italy (1944)

Morgan v. Virginia rules that segregation on interstate buses is illegal (1946)

President Harry S. Truman desegregates the U.S. military (1948)

Jackie Robinson breaks the color bar in baseball (1947)

Brown v. Board of Education (1954)

Lynching of Emmett Till (1955)

Rosa Parks is arrested (1955)

Crisis at Little Rock (1957)

North Carolina A&T students initiate a sit-in protest (1960)

Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) is formed (1960)

Martin Luther King's "I have a dream" speech (1963)

Birmingham church bombing (1963)

Civil Rights Act (1964)

Economic Opportunity Act (1964)

The Moynihan report (1965)

Voting Rights Act (1965)

Watts riot in Los Angeles (1965)

Black Panther Party is founded (1966)

Blacks serve in the military during the Vietnam War (1960s)

Loving v. Virginia (1967)

Martin Luther King, Jr. is assasinated (1968)

Kerner report is issued (1968)

President Richard Nixon promotes a southern strategy (1968)

Roots is televised (1977)

Michele Wallace publishes Black macho and the myth of the superwoman (1978)

Bakke case (1978)

Black Miami residents riot over police brutality (1980)

Jesse Jackson runs for president (1984)

Clarence Thomas is appointed to the U.S. Supreme Court (1991)

Jury acquits Los Angeles police officers in the beating of Rodney King and rioting ensues (1992)

Welfare Reform Act (1996)

Hurricane Katrina devastates New Orleans (2005).

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Anne and Joseph Trachtman Memorial Book Fund.

ISBN:

9780313355011

0313355010

OCLC:

277197101