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Encyclopedia of African American history, 1896 to the present :, from the age of segregation to the twenty-first century, editor in chief, Paul Finkelman, vol. 2

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Encyclopedia of African American history, 1896 to the present :, from the age of segregation to the twenty-first century, editor in chief, Paul Finkelman, vol. 2

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references and index

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contains biographical information

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Encyclopedia of African American history, 1896 to the present :

Nature of contents

bibliographyencyclopedias

Responsibility statement

editor in chief, Paul Finkelman

Sub title

from the age of segregation to the twenty-first century

Summary

Focusing on the making of African American society from the 1896 "separate but equal" ruling of Plessy v. Ferguson up to the contemporary period, this encyclopedia traces the transition from the Reconstruction Era to the age of Jim Crow, the Harlem Renaissance, the Great Migration, the Brown ruling that overturned Plessy , the Civil Rights Movement, and the ascendant influence of African-American culture on the American cultural landscape. --publisher description

Table Of Contents

v. 1. A-C -- v. 2. D-I -- v. 3. J-N -- v. 4. O-T -- v. 5. U-Y, Index

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African American history, 1896 to the present, from the age of segregation to the twenty-first century

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