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.

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