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Superior in content, sources, and organization. The text does a phenomenal job of profiling various people and moments throughout history. An additional strength of the book is the extensive use of visual aids and recommended readings at the conclusion of every chapter.
-David A. Terry, San Joaquin Delta College
The greatest challenge has been in finding a text that both on-campus and online students can utilize. The Hine text seems to have eliminated this challenge.
-Evyonne Hawkins, Richland Community College
I find it extremely well written, covering all of the bases. I wanted a text that does a good job with the basics of US history. Hine does that.
-Theodore Kallman, San Joaquin Delta College
What really makes this book standout is the coverage of women and the many significant contributions they have made. My female students often thank me for choosing a book which makes them an important part of the story.
-Abel A. Bartley, Clemson University
Synopsis
More than any other text, The African-American Odyssey illuminates the central place of African Americans in U.S. history – not only telling the story of what it has meant to be black in America, but also how African-American history is inseparably weaved into the greater context of American history and vice versa.
Told through a clear, direct, and flowing narrative by leading scholars in the field, The African-American Odyssey draws on recent research to present black history within broad social, cultural, and political frameworks. From Africa to the Twenty-First Century, this book follows their long, turbulent journey, including the rich culture that African Americans have nurtured throughout their history and the many-faceted quest for freedom in which African Americans have sought to counter oppression and racism. This text also recognizes the diversity within the African-American sphere – providing coverage of all class and of women and balancing the lives of ordinary men and women with the accounts and actions of black leaders and individuals.
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About the Author
Darlene Clark Hine
Darlene Clark Hine is Board of Trustees Professor of African-American Studies and Professor of History at Northwestern University. She is a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, past President of the Organization of American Historians and of the Southern Historical Association. Hine received her BA at Roosevelt University in Chicago, and her MA and Ph.D. from Kent State University, Kent, Ohio. Hine has taught at South Carolina State University and at Purdue University. She was a fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences at Stanford University and at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Studies at Harvard University. She is the author and/or co-editor of fifteen books, most recently The Harvard Guide to African American History (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2000) co-edited with Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham and Leon Litwack. She co-edited a two volume set with Earnestine Jenkins, A Question of Manhood: A Reader in Black Men’s History and Masculinity (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1999, 2001); and with Jacqueline McLeod, Crossing Boundaries: Comparative History of Black People in Diaspora (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2000pk). With Kathleen Thompson she wrote A Shining Thread of Hope: The History of Black Women in America (New York: Broadway Books, 1998), and edited with Barry Gaspar, More Than Chattel: Black Women and Slavery in the Americas (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1996). She won the Dartmouth Medal of the American Library Association for the reference volumes co-edited with Elsa Barkley Brown and Rosalyn Terborg-Penn, Black Women in America: An Historical Encyclopedia (New York: Carlson Publishing, 1993). She is the author of Black Women in White: Racial Conflict and Cooperation in the Nursing Profession, 1890—1950 (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1989). Her forthcoming book is entitled The Black Professional Class: Physicians, Nurses, Lawyers, and the Origins of the Civil Rights Movement, 1890—1955.
William C. Hine
William C. Hine received his undergraduate education at Bowling Green State University, his master’s degree at the University of Wyoming, and his Ph.D. at Kent State University. He is a professor of history at South Carolina State University. He has had articles published in several journals, including Agricultural History, Labor History, and the Journal of Southern History. He is currently writing a history of South Carolina State University.
Stanley Harrold
Stanley Harrold, Professor of History at South Carolina State University, received his bachelor’s degree from Allegheny College and his master’s and Ph.D. degrees from Kent State University. He is coeditor of Southern Dissent, a book series published by the University Press of Florida. In 1991-1992 and 1996-1997 he had National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowships. In 2005 he received an NEH Faculty Research Award. His books include: Gamaliel Bailey and Antislavery Union (Kent, Ohio: Kent State University Press, 1986), The Abolitionists and the South (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1995), Antislavery Violence: Sectional, Racial, and Cultural Conflict in Antebellum America (co-edited with John R. McKivigan; Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 1999), American Abolitionists (Harlow, U.K.: Longman, 2001), Subversives: Antislavery Community in Washington, D.C., 18280-1865 (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2003), The Rise of Aggressive Abolitionism: Addresses to the Slaves (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 2004), Civil War and Reconstruction: A Documentary Reader (Oxford, U.K.: Blackwell, 2007) and Border War: Fighting over Slavery before the Civil War (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2010). He has published articles in Civil War History, Journal of Southern History, Radical History Review, and Journal of the Early Republic.
Table of Contents
12 The Meaning of Freedom: The Promise of Reconstruction, 1865–1868
The End of Slavery
Land
The Freedmen’s Bureau
Southern Homestead Act
Sharecropping
The Black Church
Education
Violence
The Crusade for Political and Civil Rights
Presidential Reconstruction under Andrew Johnson
Black Codes
Black Conventions
The Radical Republicans
The Fourteenth Amendment
Radical Reconstruction
The Reaction of White Southerners
13 The Meaning of Freedom: The Failure of Reconstruction, 1868–1877
Constitutional Conventions
Elections
Black Political Leaders
The Issues
Economic Issues
Black Politicians: An Evaluation
Republican Factionalism
Opposition
The Fifteenth Amendment
The Enforcement Acts
The North Loses Interest
The Freedmen’s Bank
The Civil Rights Act of 1875
The End of Reconstruction
PART IV Searching for Safe Spaces
14 White Supremacy Triumphant: African Americans in the South in the Late Nineteenth Century
Politics
Disfranchisement
Segregation
Racial Etiquette
Violence
Migration
Black Farm Families
African Americans and Southern Courts
15 African Americans Challenge White Supremacy
Social Darwinism
Education and Schools
Church and Religion
Red versus Black: The Buffalo Soldiers
African Americans in the Navy
The Black Cowboys
The Spanish-American War
The Philippine Insurrection
African Americans and the World’s Columbian Exposition
Black Businesspeople and Entrepreneurs
African Americans and Labor
Black Professionals
Music
Sports
16 Conciliation, Agitation, and Migration: African Americans in the Early Twentieth Century
Race and the Progressive Movement
Booker T. Washington’s Approach
W. E. B. Du Bois
The Niagara Movement
The NAACP
The Urban League
Black Women and the Club Movement
The Black Elite
African-American Inventors
Presidential Politics
Black Men and the Military in World War I
Race Riots
The Great Migration
Northern Communities
Families
17 African Americans and the 1920s
Strikes and the Red Scare
Varieties of Racism
Protest, Pride, and Pan-Africanism: Black Organizations in the Twenties
Labor
The Harlem Renaissance
Harlem and the Jazz Age
Sports
PART V The Great Depression and World War II
18 The Great Depression and the New Deal
The Cataclysm, 1929–1933
The Failure of Relief
African Americans and the New Deal
The Rise of Black Social Scientists
Black Protest During the Great Depression
Organized Labor and Black America
The Communist Party and African Americans
The Tuskegee Study
19 Black Culture and Society in the 1930s and 1940s
Black Culture in a Midwestern City
The Black Culture Industry and American Racism
The Music Culture from Swing to Bebop
Popular Culture for the Masses: Comic Strips, Radio, and the Movies
The Black Chicago Renaissance
Black Graphic Art
Black Literature
African Americans in Sports
Black Religious Culture
20 The World War II Era and Seeds of a Revolution
On the Eve of War, 1936–1941
Race and the U.S. Armed Forces
Black People on the Home Front
The Transition to Peace
The Cold War and International Politics
PART VI The Black Revolution
21 The Freedom Movement, 1954–1965
The 1950s: Prosperity and Prejudice
The Road to Brown
Brown II
New Forms of Protest: The Montgomery Bus Boycott
No Easy Road to Freedom: 1957–1960
Black Youth Stand Up by Sitting Down
A Sight to be Seen: The Movement at High Tide
The Albany Movement
The Birmingham Confrontation
A Hard Victory
22 The Struggle Continues, 1965–1980
The Fading Dream of Racial Integration: White Backlash and Black Nationalism
The Black Panther Party
The Inner-City Rebellions
Difficulties in Creating the Great Society
Johnson and the War in Vietnam
Johnson: Vietnam Destroys the Great Society
King: Searching for a New Strategy
The Black Arts Movement and Black Consciousness
The Second Phase of the Black Student Movement
The Election of 1968
The Nixon Presidency
The Rise of Black Elected Officials
Economic Downturn
Black Americans and the Carter Presidency
23 A frican Americans at the New Millennium
Progress and Poverty: Income, Education, and Health
The Persistence of Black Poverty
African Americans at The Center Of Art And Culture
Black Religion at the Dawn of the Millennium
Louis Farrakhan and the Nation of Islam
Millennium Marches
Complicating Black Identity in the Twenty-First Century
24 The Triumph of Black Politics, 1980 to Present
Ronald Reagan and the Conservative Reaction
Black Political Activism in the Age of Conservative Reaction
Jesse Jackson and the Rainbow Coalition
Policing the Black Community
The Clinton Presidency
Black Politics in the New Millennium: The Contested 2000
Presidential Election
Republican Triumph
The 2004 Presidential Election
Barack Obama: President of the United States