Bibliograph

We ain't what we ought to be, the Black freedom struggle from emancipation to Obama, Stephen Tuck

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We ain't what we ought to be, the Black freedom struggle from emancipation to Obama, Stephen Tuck

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references and index

Illustrations

platesillustrations

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

We ain't what we ought to be

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

319493060

Responsibility statement

Stephen Tuck

Sub title

the Black freedom struggle from emancipation to Obama

Table Of Contents

Prologue -- The freedom war, 1861-1865 -- Freedom is not enough, 1865-1877 -- Resisting the juggernaut of White supremacy, 1878-1906 -- Black leaders reckon with Jim Crow, 1893-1916 -- Great War and Great Migration, 1917-1924 -- Renaissance in Harlem, dark ages elsewhere, 1924-1941 -- World War II and its aftermath, 1941-1948 -- Three steps forward, two steps back, 1949-1959 -- The civil rights movement, 1960-1965 -- Black power and grassroots protest, 1966-1978 -- Reagan, rap, and resistance, 1979-2000 -- Epilogue

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