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Before the Mayflower : a history of Black America /

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Bennett, Lerone, Jr., 1928-2018
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Penguin Books, 1993.
Edition:6th ed.
Subjects:
African Americans > History.
Table of Contents:
  • The African past
  • Before the Mayflower
  • The founding of Black America
  • Behind the cotton curtain
  • Blood on the leaves: revolts and conspiracies
  • The generation of crisis
  • The jubilee war: witnesses and warriors
  • Black power in the old South
  • The life and times of Jim Crow
  • Red, White, and Black: race and sex
  • From Booker T. Washington to Martin Luther King, Jr.
  • The time of the whale
  • Landmarks and milestones
  • Black firsts.