African American experience: from slavery to the presidency
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Barack Obama and the idea of a postracial society
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The civil rights era
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The Civil War and reconstruction eras
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The Great Migration and the Harlem Renaissance
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Publisher
Britannica Educational Publishing in association with Rosen Educational Services
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
"Starting in the 1870s, Jim Crow laws began to appear across the South. Their aim was to enforce racial segregation, consolidating power in the hands of whites. This book examines the impact of these laws and other challenges that African Americans faced between the Reconstruction period and World War I. Topics discussed include the rise of groups promoting white supremacy, laws designed to quash African-American voting, Plessey v. Ferguson, the success...
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