Includes bibliographical references (p. [413]-427) and index.
Contents
The African past -- Before the Mayflower -- Negroes in the American Revolution -- Behind the cotton curtain -- Slave revolts and insurrections -- The generation of crisis -- Negroes in the Civil War -- Black power in Dixie -- The birth of Jim Crow -- Miscegenation in America -- From Booker T. Washington to Martin Luther King, Jr. -- The bitter harvest -- Epilogue.
