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Lifting the chains : the Black freedom struggle since Reconstruction /

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"It was 1863. Abraham Galloway--son of a white father and an enslaved mother--stood next to the Army recruiter, holding a gun to the soldier's head. He had escaped slavery in the hold--of a ship four years earlier, fleeing to Canada, then became a master spy for the Union Army. Now, in the...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Chafe, William H., 1942- (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2023]
Subjects:
African Americans > Civil rights > History.
African Americans > Politics and government.
African Americans > Social conditions.
Racism > United States > History.
African American soldiers > History.
United States > Race relations > History.
Noirs américains > Droits > Histoire.
Noirs américains > Politique et gouvernement.
Noirs américains > Conditions sociales.
Racisme > États-Unis > Histoire.
Militaires noirs américains > Histoire.
États-Unis > Relations raciales > Histoire.
Civil War Period (1850-1877)
United States.
HISTORY.
20th Century.
African American.
Minority Studies.
SOCIAL SCIENCE.
African American soldiers
African Americans > Civil rights
African Americans > Politics and government
African Americans > Social conditions
Race relations
Racism
United States
History of the Americas.
History.
Electronic books.
History
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Present at the Creation : 1863-1877
  • The Twilight Years, 1877-1898
  • Family, Church, and Community
  • Education and Work
  • Politics and Resistance : From 1900 to World War I
  • World War I
  • The 1920s and '30s
  • The Persistence of Struggle, the Beginning of Hope : African Americans and World War II
  • Postwar Protest
  • A New Language of Protest, A New Generation of Activists
  • Winning the Right to Vote, Coming Apart in the Process
  • Triumph and Division
  • The Struggle Continues.