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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... death fighting for a national Civil Rights Bill which would have banned discrimination and segregation in schools , churches , cemeteries , public conveyances , inns , hotels . On his death bed , sur- rounded by Frederick Douglass and ...
... death fighting for a national Civil Rights Bill which would have banned discrimination and segregation in schools , churches , cemeteries , public conveyances , inns , hotels . On his death bed , sur- rounded by Frederick Douglass and ...
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... Death of Frederick Douglass , Anacostia Heights , D.C. , February 20 . North Carolina legislature , dominated by black Republicans and white Populists , adjourned to mark the death of Frederick Douglass , February 21 . New Orleans black ...
... Death of Frederick Douglass , Anacostia Heights , D.C. , February 20 . North Carolina legislature , dominated by black Republicans and white Populists , adjourned to mark the death of Frederick Douglass , February 21 . New Orleans black ...
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... Death of Countee Cullen , poet , New York City , January 9 . Race riot , Columbia , Tenn . , February 26. Two killed , 10 wounded . Col. B. O. Davis , Jr. , assumed command of Lockbourne Air Base , March 13 . Mrs. Emma Clarissa Clement ...
... Death of Countee Cullen , poet , New York City , January 9 . Race riot , Columbia , Tenn . , February 26. Two killed , 10 wounded . Col. B. O. Davis , Jr. , assumed command of Lockbourne Air Base , March 13 . Mrs. Emma Clarissa Clement ...
Contents
THE AFRICAN PAST | 3 |
BEFORE THE MAYFLOWER | 29 |
THE NEGRO IN THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION | 48 |
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