The Handy Answer Book Series: The Handy African American History Answer Book

Editor/Author Smith, Jessie Carney
Publication Year: 2014
Publisher: Visible Ink Press

Price: Core Collection Only
ISBN: 978-1-57-859452-8
Category: History - United States -- History
Image Count: 177
Book Status: Available
Table of Contents

Walking you through a rich but often overlooked part of American history, this compendium addresses the people, times, and events that influenced and changed African American history.

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Table of Contents

  • TIMELINE
  • FOREWORD
  • UPON AMERICA’S SHORES: BEGINNING THE BLACK EXPERIENCE
  • Our Cultural Strivings
  • Business and Economic Development
  • Organized for Progress
  • A Political Agenda
  • Amen, Brother!
  • Science and Scientific Creativity
  • A Sports Agenda
  • ARTS AND ENTERTAINMENT
  • Architecture
  • Performing Arts
  • Musicals
  • Black Dance
  • Theater
  • A Cultural Revolution
  • Radio Shows
  • Television
  • Film
  • Museums
  • Visual Arts
  • Cartoonists
  • Circus
  • Festivals
  • BUSINESS AND COMMERCE
  • Early Development
  • Black-owned Businesses
  • Advertising
  • Automobile Industry
  • Banking
  • Consumer Cooperatives
  • Corporate America
  • Economic Boycots and Protests
  • Food and Food Service Industries
  • Insurance Companies
  • Labor Unions
  • Manufacturing
  • Publishing
  • Women Entrepreneurs
  • Real Estate
  • Retail
  • Stock Exchange
  • Transportation
  • CIVIL RIGHTS AND PROTESTS
  • Slavery and Anti-Slavery
  • Slave Revolts
  • Emancipation
  • The Civil Rights Movement
  • Race Riots
  • African-American Protests of the Post-Civil Rights Movement
  • The Post Civil-Rights Era
  • EDUCATION
  • Education during Slavery
  • College Foundings
  • Historically Black Colleges and Universities
  • College Integration
  • Law Schools
  • Other Schools
  • School Desegregation
  • Funding Higher Education
  • College Curricula
  • Mainstream Academic Institutions
  • Leadership Training
  • JOURNALISM
  • African-American Press
  • Newspapers
  • Women and the Early Press
  • Press Correspondents and Journalists
  • Periodicals
  • Photojournalism
  • Television Newscasters
  • LITERATURE
  • Early African-American Poets
  • Early Black American Prose
  • Slave Narratives
  • Literature of the Harlem Renaissance Era
  • Poets and Poetry
  • Science Fiction
  • Literature of the Civil Rights Movement
  • The Black Aesthetic
  • The Black Arts Movement
  • Variety in African-American Writing
  • Award-winning Writers
  • African-American Literature in American Culture
  • MILITARY
  • From the American Revolution to the Spanish-American War
  • The Military and Jim Crow
  • African-American Women in the Military
  • Nurses in the Military
  • Medical Officers in the Military
  • The Military on Black College Campuses
  • Dissidents and the War Effort
  • Korea and Vietnam
  • MUSIC
  • Music and Slavery
  • Ragtime Music
  • Blacks in Country Music
  • Record Companies
  • Big Bands and Bandmasters
  • Classical Music
  • Gospel Music
  • Choirs and Other Orchestras
  • Composers
  • Racial Segregation and Black Singers
  • Urban Blues
  • Pop Music
  • Soul Music
  • Music of the Civil Rights Era
  • Jazz Music and Musicians
  • Blues
  • Hip Hop
  • Reggae
  • Rhythm and Blues
  • ORGANIZATIONS
  • Organizations and Societal Forces
  • Business and Unions
  • Civil and Political Rights
  • Educational Organizations
  • Fraternal, Social Service, and Religious Organizations
  • Medical and Dental Associations
  • Women’s Organizations
  • POLITICS AND GOVERNMENT
  • Early Political Activities
  • Politics during the Reconstruction
  • Political Parties and Politics
  • Law and the Supreme Court
  • Law Enforcement
  • The U.S. Congress in Modern Times
  • State Office Holders
  • Federal Government
  • Women and the Political Process
  • Federal Courts
  • U.S. Department of Justice
  • Women in the U.S. Senate
  • Mayoral Elections
  • RELIGION
  • African-American Christians in the Colonial Era
  • The Founding of the Black Church in America
  • Black Preachers and Religious Leaders
  • Evangelists and Evagelism
  • Racial Segregation and the Black Church
  • Music and the Black Church
  • Early Religious Leaders and Civil Rights
  • The Black Church in the Modern Civil Rights Movement
  • Popes, Saints, Archbishops, and Nuns
  • Megachurches in the African-American Community
  • Black Jews
  • Pentecostalism in the Black Community
  • Rastafarianism
  • Muslims in America
  • Gender Equality in the Black Church
  • Women and Righteous Discontent
  • Toward a Black Theology
  • SCIENCE, INVENTIONS, MEDICINE, AND AEROSPACE
  • Science
  • Inventions and Patents
  • Black Women Inventors
  • Medicine
  • Black Women in Medicine
  • Aerospace
  • SPORTS
  • African-American Sports History
  • Emergence of the Black Athlete
  • Sports in the Time of Slavery
  • Horseracing
  • Boxing
  • Baseball
  • Basketball
  • Football
  • Golf
  • Gymnastics
  • Tennis
  • Track and Field and the Olympics
  • Miscellaneous Sports
  • REFERENCES