Before the Mayflower; a History of Black AmericaTraces black history from its origins in the great empires of western Africa, the transatlantic journey to slavery, through Reconstruction, the Jim Crow era, and the civil rights upheavals of the 1960s and 1970s. |
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... turning about and jumping just so , " Daddy " Rice shuffled across the stage at New York's Bowery Theatre in 1832 and gave America its first international song hit . By 1838 , Jim Crow was wedged into the language THE BIRTH OF JIM CROW.
... turning about and jumping just so , " Daddy " Rice shuffled across the stage at New York's Bowery Theatre in 1832 and gave America its first international song hit . By 1838 , Jim Crow was wedged into the language THE BIRTH OF JIM CROW.
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Lerone Bennett (Jr.) By 1838 , Jim Crow was wedged into the language as a syno- nym for Negro . A noun , a verb , an adjective , a " comic " way of life . By 1839 , there was an antislavery book : The History of Jim Crow ... Jim Crow 221.
Lerone Bennett (Jr.) By 1838 , Jim Crow was wedged into the language as a syno- nym for Negro . A noun , a verb , an adjective , a " comic " way of life . By 1839 , there was an antislavery book : The History of Jim Crow ... Jim Crow 221.
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Lerone Bennett (Jr.) quired Jim Crow waiting rooms before 1899 , but in the next three decades other Southern states fell into line . Only Georgia , before 1900 , had required Jim Crow seating on streetcars . North Caro- lina and ...
Lerone Bennett (Jr.) quired Jim Crow waiting rooms before 1899 , but in the next three decades other Southern states fell into line . Only Georgia , before 1900 , had required Jim Crow seating on streetcars . North Caro- lina and ...
Contents
THE AFRICAN PAST | 3 |
BEFORE THE MAYFLOWER | 29 |
THE NEGRO IN THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION | 48 |
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