African American History: Books

This book traces Black history from its origins in western Africa, through the transatlantic journey that ended in slavery, the Reconstruction period, the Jim Crow era, and the civil rights upheavals of the 1960s and 1970s, culminating in an exploration of the complex realities of contemporary problems of accomplishments.African-American life.

• Volume 1 - Volume 4 Black Women in American History: From Colonial Times through the Nineteenth Century
• Volume 5 – Volume 8 Black Women in American History: The Twentieth Century
• Volume 9 – Volume 10 Black Women's History: Theory and Practice
• Volume 11 Daughters of Sorrow: Attitudes Toward Black Women, 1880-1920 (B. Guy-Sheftall)
• Volume 12 Jane Edna Hunter: A Case Study of Black Leadership, 1910-1950 (A.L. Jones)
• Volume 13 Quest For Equality: The Life and Writings of Mary Eliza Church Terrell, 1863-1954 (B. W. Jones)
• Volume 14 To Better Our World: Black Women in Organized Reforms, 1890-1920 (D. Salem)
• Volume 15 Ida B. Wells-Barnett: An Exploratory Study of an American Black Woman, 1893-1930 (M. Thompson)
• Volume 16 Women in the Civil Rights Movement: Trailblazers and Torchbearers, 1941-1965

Historian Nell Irvin Painter blends a vivid narrative based on the latest research with a wonderful array of artwork by African-American artists, works which add a new depth to our understanding of black history. Painter offers a history written for a new generation of African Americans, stretching from life in Africa before slavery to today's hip-hop culture.

This book describes the rise of slavery, the interaction of European and African cultures in the New World, and the emergence of a distinct culture and way of life among slaves and free blacks. The authors examine the role of blacks in the nation's wars, the rise of an articulate, restless free black community by the end of the eighteenth century, and the growing resistance to slavery among an expanding segment of the Black population.

The Black experience and its impact on our nation's culture and character are illustrated in twelve chapters, from ancient Africa and the slave trade to such key eras as the Civil War, Emancipation, and Reconstruction; the Harlem Renaissance and the Jim Crow Era; and the modern Civil Rights and Black Power/Black Arts movements.

Profiles one hundred influential African Americans who helped shape the history of the twentieth century, including revered figures in the fields of music, literature, sports, science, politics, and the civil rights movement.

The State of Afro-American History is an authoritative and provocative examination of the Afro-American experience during slavery and since emancipation. Individual essays by prominent scholars cover the ways in which black slaves shaped their environment, the forces that influenced the black urban experience in the United States, the evolution of scholarship in Afro-American history, and the merger of American and Afro-American histories.

A powerful study of the women's movement in the U.S. from abolitionist days to the present that demonstrates how it has always been hampered by the racist and classist biases of its leaders.