Synopses & Reviews
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.
Synopsis
This 3rd edition of The African-American Odyssey includes not only a CD-ROM-bound into every book (which incorporates over 150 documents in African American history), but also has a broadened international perspective, expanded coverage of interaction among African Americans and other ethnic groups, and new material on African Americans in the western portion of the United States. Free access to Research Navigator is included. This allows readers to access this powerful research tool with one site. Written by leading scholars, The African-American Odyssey is a clear and comprehensive narrative of African-American history, from the Civil War through modern times. The Combined Volume traces African-American history from it African roots through the present. This book places African-American history in the context and at the center of American History. Balancing accounts of the actions of African-American leaders with investigations of the lives of the ordinary men and women in black communities, exciting and readable coverage includes: African-American history from the Civil War and the beginnings of Reconstruction through the Civil Rights movement to discussions of black life at the dawn of the 21st century. This is a compelling story of survival, struggle, and triumph over adversity. Readers will learn an appreciation of the central place of black people and black culture in this country, and a better understanding of both African-American and American history.
Table of Contents
PART IV
Searching for Safe Spaces 306
14 White Supremacy Triumphant: African Americans in the South in the Late Nineteenth Century 308
15 Black Southerners Challenge White Supremacy 334
16 Conciliation, Agitation, and Migration: African Americans in the Early Twentieth Century 364
17 African Americans and the 1920s 400
PARTV
The Great Depression and World War II 426
18 The Great Depression and The New Deal 428
19 Black Culture and Society in the 1930s and 1940s 454
20 The World War II Era and Seeds of a Revolution 480
PARTVI
The Black Revolution 510
21 The Freedom Movement, 1954—1965 512
22 The Struggle Continues, 1965—1980 542
23 Black Politics, White Backlash, 1980 to Present 576
24 African Americans in the New Millenium
Epilogue: “A Nation Within a Nation” 608