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African American history. Volume 2

Mack-Williams, Kibibi, 1955- (Added Author).

Summary: This new resource provides comprehensive coverage of the many events that define the framework of African American history, including social, cultural, and political movements, and the struggles to gain freedom, equality and civil rights. Just as the history of African Americans has been dominated by struggles for freedom and equal rights, articles in Great Events from History: African American History emphasize key events in the study of slavery, the abolitionist movement, civil rights, discrimination, voting rights, and Supreme Court decisions. Other events focus on arts and entertainment, Black Nationalism, crime and punishment, economic issues, education, military history, politics & government, religion, riots and civil disturbances and women's issues. Take a look at just some of the recent events that are included in this comprehensive source: * The election of Barack Obama in 2009* The opening of the Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial on the National Mall in Washington DC in 2011* The Black lives Matter movement of 2012* The "Hands Up, Don't Shoot" protests in Ferguson, MO in 2014. Essays have been supplemented with informational sidebars that will further inform a reader's understanding of the topics discussed, including primary source documents, court decisions, mission statements, laws, biographical profiles, and state statistics that will deepen a reader's understanding of the topic. Designed for high school, undergraduate and public libraries, this new resource provides students and researchers with comprehensive and accessible material designed to shed a new light on the study of African American history. -- Amazon.com.

Record details

ISBN: 9781682171554 (hardcover)
ISBN: 9781682171523 (set)
Physical Description: print
251-494 p. : ill. ; 27 cm.
Publisher: Ipswich, Massachusetts : Salem Press, a division of EBSCO Information Services, Inc., 2017.

Content descriptions

General Note:	"Some of the updated and revised essays in this work originally appeared in the following titles from the Great lives from history series: The 17th century (2005), The 18th century (2006), The 19th century (2006), The 20th century (2008), African Americans (2011)"--Title page verso.
Bibliography, etc. Note:	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Formatted Contents Note:	Colored Women's League -- Ida B. Wells-Barnett publishes Southern Horrors: Lynch Law in all its Phases -- Atlanta Compromise -- Plessy v. Ferguson -- Separate but equal doctrine is created -- National Association of Colored Women -- Williams v. Mississippi -- Wilmington Race Riot of 1898 -- Joplin Popularizes Ragtime Music and Dance -- Cumming v. Richmond County Board of Education -- Race riots of the twentieth century -- Talented Tenth -- Founding of the Niagara Movement -- Black Sororities and Fraternities -- Brownsville incident -- Atlanta Race Riots of 1906 -- First Black Heavyweight Boxing Champion -- Springfield Race Riot of 1908 -- National Association for the Advancement of Colored People Is Founded -- Tennesee adopts the one-drop rule -- Handy Ushers in the Commercial Blues Era -- Great Migration -- National Urban League -- Griffith Releases The Birth Of A Nation -- Buchanan v. Warley -- Wentworth Arthur Matthew founds the Commandment Keepers Ethiopian Hebrew Congregation -- Garvey and Du Bois Conflict -- American Civil Liberties Union Is Founded -- Harlem Renaissance -- Newberry v. United States -- The Dyer Anti-lynching Bill -- Perry Race Riot of 1922 -- Rosewood Massacre -- Bessie Smith Records "Downhearted Blues" -- Moore v. Dempsey -- Oklahoma Imposes Martial Law in Response to KKK Violence -- American Negro Labor Congress -- Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters -- Armstrong Records with the Hot Five -- Baker Dances in La Revue Nègre -- White primaries -- Nixon v. Herndon -- Ellington Begins Performing at the Cotton Club -- Hallelujah Is the First Important Black Musical Film -- Nation of Islam Is Founded -- Scottsboro Trials -- Tuskegee experiment -- Nixon v. Condon -- Powell v. Alabama -- Billie Holiday Begins Her Recording Career -- Josephine Baker, the First Black Movie Star, ZouZou -- Black cabinet -- Grovey v. Townsend -- Norris v. Alabama -- National Council of Negro Women -- Missouri ex rel. Gaines v. Canada -- Anderson's Lincoln Memorial concert -- Wright's Native Son Depicts Racism in America -- National Association for the Advancement of Colored People Legal Defense and Educational Fund -- Black flight -- United States v. Classic -- Defense industry desegregation -- Fair Employment Practices Committee -- World War II -- Tuskegee Airmen -- Congress of Racial Equality Forms -- Chicago sit-ins -- Race Riots Erupt in Detroit and Harlem -- Stormy Weather Offers New Film Roles to African Americans -- Smith v. Allwright -- United Negro College Fund -- Parker's Playing Epitomizes Bebop -- Mahalia Jackson Begins Her Recording Career -- President's Committee on Civil Rights -- Baseball's racial integration -- Journey of Reconciliation -- Military desegregation -- Miles Davis Develops 1950's Cool Jazz -- Ralph Bunche Receives Nobel Prize -- Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man is Published -- Terry v. Adams -- Brown v. Board of Education -- Kenneth Clark's Doll Study Cited by Supreme Court in Brown V. Board of Education -- Bolling v. Sharpe -- White Citizens' Councils -- First Newport Jazz Festival Is Held -- Poitier Emerges as a Film Star in The Blackboard Jungle -- Berry's "Maybellene" Popularizes Rock and Roll -- Till Lynching -- Civil Rights movement -- Montgomery Bus Boycott -- Southern Manifesto -- Southern Christian Leadership Conference -- Civil Rights Act of 1957 -- Little Rock school desegregation crisis -- United States Commission on Civil Rights -- Ailey Founds His Dance Company -- Summit Meeting of National Negro Leaders -- National Association for the Advancement of Colored People v. Alabama -- Cooper v. Aaron -- Gordy Founds Motown Records -- Hansberry's A Raisin in the Sun Debuts on Broadway -- Church bombings -- Lassiter v. Northampton County Board of Elections -- Greensboro Sit-ins -- Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee -- Civil Rights Act of 1960 -- Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird Calls for Social Justice -- Wilma Rudolph Becomes the Fastest Woman in the World -- Gomillion v. Lightfoot --