This classic in African American studies was first published in 1947; it has been a standard text ever since, and has been revised several times. Professors Franklin and Moss provide a comprehensive survey of the African American experience--including slavery, the Harlem Renaissance, and the Civil Rights movement--and highlight movements of self ...
John Hope Franklin lived through America's defining twentieth century transformation, the dismantling of legally protected racial segregation. A renowned scholar, he has explored that formation in its myriad aspects, notably in his 3.5 million bestseller, "From Slavery to Freedom". And he experienced it first hand. Born in 1915, he was evicted ...
This study of forms of resistance by slaves, including flight, is based on local records, personal writings, and other sources. Historians Franklin and Schweninger show how this evidence argues against the somewhat popular notion of slaves as passive victims, and supports a view of slaves as active agents of self-determination.
The matriarch of a remarkable African-American family, Sally Thomas went from being a slave on a tobacco plantation, to a "virtually free" slave, who ran her own business and purchased one of her sons out of bondage. "In Search of the Promised Land" offers a vivid portrait of the extended Thomas-Rapier family and of the life of slaves before the ...
This classic in African American studies was first published in 1947; it has been a standard text ever since, and has been revised several times. Professors Franklin and Moss provide a comprehensive survey of the African American experience--including slavery, the Harlem Renaissance, and the Civil Rights movement--and highlight movements of self ...
An account of the role of former slaves during the period after the Civil War in American history. Arguments concerning the brevity of the North's military occupation of the South, the limited amount of power wielded by former slaves, the influence of moderate southerners, the flaws of the constitutions drawn up by the Radical state governments, ...
"The Struggle for Black Equality" is a dramatic, memorable history of the civil rights movement. Harvard Sitkoff offers both a brilliant interpretation of the personalities and dynamics of civil rights organizations and a compelling analysis of the continuing problems plaguing many African Americans. With a new foreword and afterword, and an up-to ...
Unique in the market for its breadth of coverage and depth of analysis, this uncommonly readable new book by Pulitzer Prize-winning author Thomas K. McCraw is destined to become a classic supplementary text in a variety of undergraduate as well as graduate courses and seminars. Five of the book's ten chapters provide deft examinations of ...
Exhaustively researched, Death in a Promised Land is a compelling story of racial ideologies, southwestern politics, and yellow journalism, and of an embattled black community's struggle to hold onto its land and freedom.
Presenting the preeminent history of African-Americans, this best-selling text charts the journey of African-Americans from their origins in the civilizations of Africa, through slavery in the Western Hemisphere, their struggle for freedom in the West Indies, Latin America, and the United States, to the election of our first African American ...
The essays collected here are from a 50-year span in the life and career of the distinguished historian John Hope Franklin. Together and separately they address his life experience, the discipline in which he works--and the pervading issue of the color line.
In "The Militant South, 1800-1861", John Hope Franklin identifies the factors and causes of the South's festering propensity for aggression that contributed to the outbreak of the Civil War in 1861. Franklin asserts that the South was dominated by militant white men who resorted to violence in the face of social, personal, or political conflict. ...
Oral history of the first order, Bridges of Memory lets us hear the voices of those who left social, political, and economic oppression for political freedom and opportunity such as they'd never known - and for new forms of prejudice and segregation. These children and grandchildren of ex-slaves found work in the stockyards and steel mills of ...
Contents: Parties, Elections and Patronage; Parties, the State and Public Policy; The Major Parties: The Republicans and the Democrats; On the Periphery of Party Politics; Grant: The Emergence of Deadlock, 1868-1876; Hayes: The Confirmation of Deadlock, 1876-1880; Garfield and Arthur: The Deadlock Continues, 1880-1884; Cleveland: The Deadlock ...
This is a forceful meditation on the persistent disparity between the goal of racial equality in America and the facts of discrimination. Presented as the prestigious Jefferson Lecture in the Humanities, "Racial Equality in America" traces America's history of racial inequality. In a strong critique of Thomas Jefferson, Franklin shows that this ...
Originally published in 1943 by UNC Press, this text examines how freed slaves in the antebellum South did not enjoy the full rights of citizenship. Even in North Carolina, reputedly more liberal than most southern states, discriminatory laws were so harsh that many voluntarily returned to slavery.
In this comprehensive, unflinching account, David W. Southern persuasively argues that race was the primary blind spot of the Progressive Movement. Based on the voluminous secondary works produced over the last forty years and his own primary research, Southern's synthesis vividly portrays the ruthless exploitation, brutality, and violence that ...
This classic in African American studies was first published in 1947; it has been a standard text ever since, and has been revised several times. Professors Franklin and Moss provide a comprehensive survey of the African American experience--including slavery, the Harlem Renaissance, and the Civil Rights movement--and highlight movements of self ...
This book began as three lectures given at the University of Missouri-Columbia in April 1992, coinciding with the Los Angeles riots. It studies the role of race in both Republican and Democratic parties and shows the colour line holding fast in education, housing, health and the legal system.
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