Peace be still : modern Black America from World War II to Barack Obama /

A concise, engaging, and provocative history of African Americans since World War II, Peace Be Still is also nothing less than an alternate history of the United States in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Organizing this history around culture, politics and resistance, Matthew C. Whitaker t...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Whitaker, Matthew C.
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, [2013]
Subjects:	African Americans > History > 1877-1964. African Americans > Social conditions > 20th century. African Americans > Social conditions > 21st century. African Americans > Politics and government > 20th century. African Americans > Politics and government > 21st century. Civil rights movements > United States > History > 20th century. SOCIAL SCIENCE / Ethnic Studies / African American Studies. HISTORY / United States / 20th Century. HISTORY / United States / 21st Century.

Table of Contents:

"Make Way for Democracy," 1939-1954
"Let Your Motto Be Resistance," 1954-1961
"Deep Rumbling of Discontent," 1961-1968
"So Let It Be Done," 1968-1980
"To the Break of Dawn," 1980-2000
"The Audacity of Hope," 2000-2008.