The journey to the promised land : the African American struggle for development since the Civil War / Dickson A. Mungazi ; foreword by Dione Brooks Taylor.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Mungazi, Dickson A.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

African Americans--History--1863-1877.

African Americans.

African Americans--History--1877-1964.

African Americans--History--1964-.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (255 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Distribution:

London : Bloomsbury Publishing, 2024

Place of Publication:

Westport, Conn. : Praeger, 2001.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

A study of African American development since the Civil War, as measured by progress in four critical areas of national life: economic, political, educational and social. It includes discussion of important watershed events and key individuals who helped to redefine the nation's history.

Contents:

Preliminaries; Contents; Illustrations; Preface; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1 Preparing for the Journey The Search for a New Identity; 2 The Courts and the Search for a Passage; 3 The Search for a Moses The Effect of Leadership; 4 Obstacles to the Journey Conflict in the Strategy; 5 Martin Luther King Jr Sighting the Promised Land; 6 Civil Rights Legislation Vehicle to the Promised Land; 7 African and African American Struggles in Comparative Perspective; 8 The Journey to the Promised Land: Summary, Conclusions, and Implications; Selected Bibliography; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliogaphical references (p. [195]-202) and index.

ISBN:

9798400674945

9780313002656

0313002657

OCLC:

55142082