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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... September 22 . President Lincoln discussed with his Cabinet acquisition of territory for deportation of free Negroes , September 23 . First Louisiana Native Guards , the first Negro regiment to receive official recognition , mustered ...
... September 22 . President Lincoln discussed with his Cabinet acquisition of territory for deportation of free Negroes , September 23 . First Louisiana Native Guards , the first Negro regiment to receive official recognition , mustered ...
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Lerone Bennett (Jr.) V - J Day , September 2. A total of 1,154,720 Negroes were inducted or drafted into the armed services . One thousand white students walked out of three Gary , Ind . , schools to protest school integration , September ...
Lerone Bennett (Jr.) V - J Day , September 2. A total of 1,154,720 Negroes were inducted or drafted into the armed services . One thousand white students walked out of three Gary , Ind . , schools to protest school integration , September ...
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... September 10 . Two black youths involved in voter registration drive in Mississippi were wounded by shotgun blasts fired through the windows of a home in Ruleville , Miss . , September 11. James Forman , executive secretary of the ...
... September 10 . Two black youths involved in voter registration drive in Mississippi were wounded by shotgun blasts fired through the windows of a home in Ruleville , Miss . , September 11. James Forman , executive secretary of the ...
Contents
THE AFRICAN PAST | 3 |
BEFORE THE MAYFLOWER | 29 |
THE NEGRO IN THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION | 48 |
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