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Unbroken and unbowed : a history of black protest in America / Jimmie R. Hawkins.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Hawkins, Jimmie R., author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- African Americans--Politics and government.
- African Americans.
- United States--Race relations--History.
- United States.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (310 pages)
- Place of Publication:
- Louisville, Kentucky : Westminster John Knox Press, [2022]
- Summary:
- In this compelling and informative volume, Jimmie R. Hawkins walks the reader through the many forms of Black protest in American history, from precolonial times though the George Floyd protests of 2020.
- Contents:
- Intro
- Advance Praise for Unbroken and Unbowed
- Half Title
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Contents
- List of Illustrations
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Section 1: The Age of Exploitation in the New World: African Protest: 1440-1775
- Precolonial Life
- Colonial America
- Colonial Protest
- From Freedom to Slavery
- Section 2: The Protest of the Enslaved: The Colored Fight Back: 1776-1877
- Slavery: Born in Hell
- Stolen
- Seasoned with Pain
- Slave Name / Free Name
- Sunup to Sundown
- Colorism
- Owner-Father
- The Fancy Trade
- The Breeding Machine
- The Whipping Post
- The Auction Block
- Black Death
- Slave Protest: By Land or by Sea
- Slave-Ship Mutinies
- Land Insurrections
- Suicides, Mutilations, and Infanticide
- Enslaved Religion
- The War of Liberation: 1775-1783
- The Unfinished Revolution
- The Abolitionist Movement
- The Underground Railroad (UGRR)
- The Prophet, the Evangelist, and Moses
- The War to End Slavery
- The Reconstruction Decade
- Reconstruction Presidents: Johnson, Grant, Hayes, and Garfield
- Slavery's Child: White Supremacy
- Race Massacres
- Vote and Die
- Section 3: Protesting Reconstruction's Failures: Negroes in the New America: 1878-1954
- The Northern Betrayal of the Negro
- Domestic Terrorism
- Lynching
- Coup d'État American Style
- Church Burnings
- Slaves to Sharecroppers to Convicts
- The Old Jim Crow
- Booker T. and W.E.B
- Negro Institutions
- The Negro Church
- The Negro Academy
- Negro Business
- Mutual Aid Societies
- Advocacy Conventions and Organizations
- The Negro Press
- Negro Directories
- The Great Migrations
- Emigration
- Migrations
- The Negro West
- Negro Towns and Communities
- The Destruction of Negro Towns and Communities
- Sundown Towns
- Red Summer of 1919
- The Harlem Renaissance
- The Negro Soldier.
- Women in the Military
- Coast Guard
- World War I
- World War II
- The Same Ol' Deal
- Section 4: The Civil Rights and Black Power Movements: Black and Afro-American Protest: 1955-1987
- The Civil Rights Movement
- Montgomery: In the Beginning
- The March on Washington
- Selma
- Birth of the SCLC, SNCC, and CORE
- New Movements Emerge
- The Leadership of Black Women
- Youth Leadership
- Martyrs of the Civil Rights Movement
- The Black Power Movement
- Inner-City Rebellions
- Black Freedom Fighters
- Section 5: Protest in a Rapidly Changing World: African American Protest: 1988-2020
- The African American Political Renaissance
- The African American Vote
- African American Literature as Protest
- African American Film as Protest
- African American Music as Protest
- The Power and Protest of the African American Athlete
- African American Philanthropy as Protest
- The New Wars on African Americans
- GI Bill
- Redlining
- Urban Renewal
- War on African American Farmers
- The War on Drugs
- The War on Crime
- Environmental Racism
- Economic Racism
- Economic and Environmental Racism Marry
- Dr. Frankenstein
- Gentrification
- Racist Robots
- Living a "Woke" Life and Social Media Protest
- Video Protest against Police Brutality
- Say Her Name / Say His Name
- Black Twitter
- Twenty-First-Century Movements
- Moral Monday and the Poor People's Campaign
- African American Protest for the Removal of Confederate Flags, Statues, and Monuments
- #BLM
- African American LGBTQIA Protest
- The Talk
- Obama as "Dream" and Trump as "Nightmare"
- 2020: "What a Year!"
- COVID-19
- Conclusion: What Comes Next?
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index.
- Notes:
- Description based on print version record.
- Other Format:
- Print version: Hawkins, Jimmie R. Unbroken and Unbowed
- ISBN:
- 9781646982332
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