50 events that shaped African American history : an encyclopedia of the American mosaic / Jamie J. Wilson, editor.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Wilson, Jamie Jaywann, editor.

Series:

Gale eBooks

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

African Americans--History--Encyclopedias.

African Americans.

African Americans--Civil rights--History--Encyclopedias.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (2 volumes) : illustrations

Distribution:

London : Bloomsbury Publishing, 2024

Other Title:

Fifty events that shaped African American history

Place of Publication:

Santa Barbara : Greenwood, an Imprint of ABC-CLIO, LLC, 2019.

System Details:

text file HTML

Summary:

"This two-volume work celebrates 50 notable achievements of African Americans, highlighting black contributions to U.S. history and examining the ways black accomplishments shaped American culture"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Trans-Atlantic slave trade, 1502-1888 / Christopher Cumo

Nat Turner's Revolt, 1831 / Bethany Jay

Abolitionist movement, 1830-1860 / Whitney Stewart, Jonathan A. Noyalas, Kevin R.C. Gutzman, Nancy A. McCaslin

Compromise of 1850 / Kathleen Gronnerud

Dred Scott v. Sanford, 1857 / Marty Kuhlman

John Brown's raid, 1859 / Evan C. Rothera

The United States Civil War, 1861-1865 / James Sandy

Reconstruction Era, 1863-1877 / Loryn Clauson

Establishment of black codes, 1866 / Lacey P. Hunter

The exoduster movement, 1879-1881 / John Becker, Michael Thomas Gavin, Christopher Keith Johnson, P. Huston Ladner

Atlanta Compromise, 1895 / Justin Williams, Bobby R. Holt

Plessy v. Ferguson, 1896 / Rodney Montague, Michael S. Rodriguez

The great migration, 1910-1960 / Jessica L. Parker

The rise and fall of the Universal Negro Improvement Association, 1914-1940 / Jamie J. Wilson, Shawntel Lyn Ensminger

The Harlem Renaissance, 1919-1930 / Jordan Hill

Pan African Congresses, 1919-1949 / Esperanza Brizuela-Garcia, Walter Rucker

Scottsboro boys 1931-1948 / Valerie R. Stackman

Tuskegee syphilis experiment, 1932-1972 / Rueben C. Warren, Clayborne Carson, Mindy R. Weidman

Jackie Robinson integrates major league baseball, 1947 / Thabiti Lewis, Amy Essington, Gregory Kaliss, Lew Freedman

Integration of United States Armed Forces, 1947 / Janice D. Hamlet

Freedom rides, 1947, 1961 / Matthew Gritter, Gerald Wayne Dowdy

Brown vs. Board of Education, 1954 / Sarah Militz-Frielink, La Vonne Neal, & Alicia L. Moore

The murder of Emmet Till, 1955 / Frank C. King, Jr., Lionel Kimble, Jr., David Kenneth Pye

Montgomery bus boycott, 1955-1956 / Jamie J. Wilson, Dan Puckett, Erin Boade, Jennifer A. Lemak

The founding of the Southern Christian Leadership Council, 1957 / Gabriel J. Atchison, Mindy R. Weidman

Greensboro four and the sit-in movement, 1960 / Hettie V. Williams, Mary Jo Fairchild

Project C: the Birmingham campaign, 1963 / Sondra Bickham Washington

March on Washington for jobs and freedom, 1963 / Jamie J. Wilson

The birth of soul: Stax and Motown Records, 1957-1967 / Tammy Kernodle, Katherine Gould, Amanda de la Garza

Freedom summer, 1964 / Jamie Wilson, Claudette L. Tolson, Cristy Casado Tondeur, Paul T. Miller, William Mychael Sturkey

War on poverty, 1964 / Jamie J. Wilson, Rickie Sanders, James A. Beckman

Rights legislation: Civil Rights Act 1964 and Voting Rights Act, 1965 / John Barnhill, John Drabble

Assassination of Malcolm X, 1965 / Bijan C. Bayne, Walter Rucker, Jamie J. Wilson

The long hot summers: African American riots and rebellions, 1965-1968 / William P. Toth, Amanda J. Davis, Lacey P. Hunter, Mindy R. Weidman, Walter Rucker

The Black power movement, 1966-1973 / Jamie J. Wilson, Sara K. Eskridge

Loving v. Virginia, 1967 / Staci M. Rubin

Assassination of Martin Luther King, 1968 / Andrew Joseph Pegoda

Black arts movement, 1960-1975 / Nagueyalti Warren

Rise and fall of the Black Panther Party, 1966-1983 / Jamie J. Wilson, Zoe Trodd

Election of Shirley Chisholm to the U.S. Congress, 1968 / Matthew Gritter

The birth of hip hop, 1970-1985 / Melissa Ursula Dawn Goldsmith

Release of Shaft, 1971 / Jacynda Ammons

Roots: the miniseries, 1976 / Renate L. Chancellor

Launch of Oprah Winfrey Show, 1986 / Shennette Garrett-Scott

African American Antiapartheid movement, 1937-1994 / Dawne Y. Curry, Walter Rucker, Clay M. Johnson

Million man march, 1995 / Richard Thomas

The war on drugs, 1971-2000s / Mathai V. Mathew, Glen Jeansonne, David Luhrssen, Jim Marshall, Richard Kent Evans

Barack Obama wins the presidency, 2008 / Marilyn K. Howard, Terri Nichols

Black lives matter movement, 2013-2017 / Rhonda Erica Celey

National Museum of African American History and Culture opens, 2016 / Christopher Cumo.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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ISBN:

9798400605819

9798216041184

9781440837876

1440837872

OCLC:

1088606040

Publisher Number:

10.5040/9798400605819 doi