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Black American History for Dummies
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Tap into Black American history and culture

The historical and cultural contributions of Black Americans run deep. And what you learned (or more likely didn't learn) in school wasn't the whole story! With roots in the African continent meshed into something completely new, Black Americans have forged a culture of excellence in various spheres including education, music, politics, film, TV, theatre, and beyond. Explore how their resilience through slavery and Jim Crow fuels the ongoing fight against systemic racism and social injustice. From the emancipation and civil rights movements to Black Lives Matter of today, the flame of freedom burns strong. Uncover all this and much, much more in Black American History For Dummies!

Inside. . .

Black heritage and prideTransatlantic slave tradeBlack women leadersCivil War and ReconstructionCivil Rights and Black PowerFighting racism and injusticeBlack culture, sports, and religionExcellence in literature and art

Tap into Black American history and culture

The historical and cultural contributions of Black Americans run deep. And what you learned (or more likely didn't learn) in school wasn't the whole story! With roots in the African continent meshed into something completely new, Black Americans have forged a culture of excellence in various spheres including education, music, politics, film, TV, theatre, and beyond. Explore how their resilience through slavery and Jim Crow fuels the ongoing fight against systemic racism and social injustice. From the emancipation and civil rights movements to Black Lives Matter of today, the flame of freedom burns strong. Uncover all this and much, much more in Black American History For Dummies!

Inside. . .

Black heritage and prideTransatlantic slave tradeBlack women leadersCivil War and ReconstructionCivil Rights and Black PowerFighting racism and injusticeBlack culture, sports, and religionExcellence in literature and art
Über den Autor

Ronda Racha Penrice attended the M.A. program in Southern Studies at the University of Mississippi. A veteran freelance writer, the Columbia University alum has covered Black history and culture for publications including Zora, Essence, the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, Ebony, theGrio, The Root, and NBC THINK.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction 1

About This Book 2

Foolish Assumptions 3

Icons Used in This Book 4

Where to Go from Here 5

Part 1: Coming to America 7

Chapter 1: The Soul of America 9

A Peek at the Past 10

Life before slavery 11

Life before emancipation 11

Life before civil rights 12

Being Black in America Today 14

Contributions to history and culture 15

Challenges 19

Black Pride Goes Mainstream 22

Celebrating Black heritage 23

Black cultural tourism booms 24

Reconciling the Past to Create the Future 26

Slavery as an American (not Southern) institution 28

Flagging the issue 28

A question of reparations 30

Chapter 2: From Empires to Bondage: Bringing Africans to the Americas 33

Touring African Empires 34

Ghana Empire 35

Mali 35

Songhai 36

Interaction with the rest of the world 37

Origins of the Transatlantic Slave Trade 38

Slavery on the African continent 38

Launching the European slave trade 39

Enslaving Africans in Latin America and the Caribbean 41

Sanctioning and opposing slavery 42

Dealing with life enslaved 44

Seeking freedom 45

Chapter 3: The Founding of Black America 49

From Servitude to Slavery 49

Inching toward slavery 50

Why Africans? 51

The Triangular Trade 51

The Middle Passage 52

The capture 52

The voyage 54

Safe arrival 55

Black Americans and the Revolution 57

A bit of background 58

Fighting for freedom 58

Hope and disappointment 60

The Free African Society and the Birth of Black America 61

Part 2: Long Road to Freedom 63

Chapter 4: American Slavery, American Freedom 65

American Bondage 66

Northern slavery 66

Enslaved life in the South 69

Before I'd Be a Slave: Fighting the System 73

The Slave Codes 74

Rebellions 75

Running away 79

"Free" Black People 81

Different paths to freedom 82

Perhaps free, but not equal 82

Chapter 5: Bringing Down the House: Marching toward Civil War and Freedom 85

Picking Fights 86

Arguing against slavery 87

Arguing for slavery 88

Leading the Antislavery Assault: Key Abolitionists 89

Anthony Benezet 89

David Walker 90

William Lloyd Garrison 90

Frederick Douglass 91

Fighting with Words 92

Slave narratives 92

Origins of the Black press 93

Colonization (or Emigration) Movement 94

Early resettlement efforts 95

Cuffe: Man on a mission 95

Questioning motives 96

The Effects of Proslavery Politics 96

The Fugitive Slave Clause 96

Stronger fugitive slave measures: Fugitive Slave Act of 1793 97

Battling over the slave status of new land 97

The Missouri Compromise 98

The Underground Railroad 98

Operation Freedom 99

Key people along the line 99

Message in the music 103

The Breaking Point 103

Straining North-South relations 104

The Compromise of 1850 104

The Kansas-Nebraska Act 105

Slavery continues 105

Dred Scott: A strike against freedom 106

Defining events at Harpers Ferry 106

Facing the Moment of Truth 107

Chapter 6: Up from Slavery: Civil War and Reconstruction 109

The Question: To End Slavery or Not? 110

Teetering on a tightrope 110

The first Confiscation Act, 1861 111

Black People in the Early Days of the Civil War 111

Serving the Union 112

Surviving in the South 112

Moving toward the Emancipation Proclamation 113

Shutting down the illegal slave trade 113

Passing the Second Confiscation Act 114

Courting England's support 114

Free at Last (Well, Sort of): The Emancipation Proclamation 114

What the Proclamation did 115

Reaction to the order 115

Finally in the Fight 116

As Union soldiers 116

As Confederate soldiers 118

The War's End and the Thirteenth Amendment 119

(Re)constructing Democracy 121

Undermining Lincoln's plan 121

Taking back the power: Reconstruction Act of 1867 123

A Mixed Bag of Hope and Despair 123

The Freedmen's Bureau 123

Where's my 40 acres and a mule? 124

Back to the land 127

Finding a new way 128

Banking on wealth 128

Taking office 129

The Fifteenth Amendment 130

A Turn for the Worse: The End of Reconstruction 131

The Redeemers 131

The Mississippi Plan 132

Civil Rights Act of 1875 132

Pulling the plug 132

Part 3: Pillars of Change: The Civil Rights Movement 135

Chapter 7: Living Jim Crow 137

Post-Reconstruction Blues 137

The Exoduster Movement 138

Black Town, U.S.A. 139

Lynchings and riots/massacres 140

Instituting Jim Crow: Plessy v. Ferguson 146

Court cases before Plessy 146

The actual case: Plessy v. Ferguson 147

Strategies for Achieving Equality 147

Booker T. Washington: The Accommodationist 148

W.E.B. Du Bois: The Integrationist 148

Organizing for Freedom 150

National Afro-American Council 150

The National Negro Business League 150

The Niagara Movement 152

The NAACP 153

The National Urban League 154

Keep on Moving: The Great Migration 154

Leaving the South 154

Life up North 156

Marcus Garvey: Man with a Plan 156

Advocating racial pride 157

Going "Back to Africa" 157

Powerful enemies 158

Can't Catch a Break: The Depression Years and FDR 158

FDR: Friend or foe? 159

Striking a new deal 159

Can't Fool Us Twice: Black Americans and WWII 161

Chapter 8: I, Too, Sing America: The Civil Rights Movement, 1954-1963 163

The Tide Turns: Brown v. Board of Education (1954) 163

The 1954 ruling and the reaction 164

Desegregating Central High School 167

Massive resistance follows in Virginia 169

Putting a Face to Racial Violence: Emmett Till 169

Emmett Till's murder 170

The outrage of the nation 170

A New Twist in Leadership: Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. 171

Adopting the philosophy of nonviolence 172

Founding the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) 173

Sit-ins, Boycotts, and Marches: The King Era of the Civil Rights Movement Begins 173

The Montgomery Bus Boycott and Rosa Parks 174

Sitting in for justice 177

Founding SNCC 179

Riding for freedom 179

The Albany Movement: A chink in the armor 180

Integrating Ole Miss and Increasing Federal Involvement 181

1963: A Bloody Year 182

Not-so-sweet home Alabama: Birmingham 182

Murder in Mississippi: Medgar Evers 184

March of All Marches: The March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom (1963) 185

Chapter 9: Turning Up the Heat (1963-1968) 187

Suffering Two Tragic Blows 187

Four innocent victims 188

JFK dies 189

The Civil Rights Act of 1964 189

Targeting Mississippi for Voter Registration: Freedom Summer 190

Getting ready 190

Getting out the Black vote 191

Mississippi burning 192

The success of Freedom Summer 192

Oh Lord Selma: Back in Alabama 193

Getting arrested again 194

Marching from Selma to Montgomery 194

The Voting Rights Act of 1965 195

Black Power Rising 196

The Nation of Islam 196

Malcolm X 197

The Black Panther Party 199

The transformation of SNCC 200

Race Relations in the North 201

Rioting in Watts 201

The Chicago Freedom Movement 202

The Poor People's March 203

Death of a King 203

The night of his death and the mourning after 204

Continuing his work 204

Chapter 10: Where Do We Go from Here? Post-Civil Rights 207

The Panthers Stumble 208

Huey Newton: A symbol of Black Power 208

The BPP encounters challenges 208

Changing focus: Embracing nonviolence and women's leadership 213

Fighting Vietnam 214

An unfair fight 214

Reacting to the war 215

Coming home 215

Black Women Taking a Stand 217

A Race to Political Office 219

Getting a foot in the door in the 1960s 220

Making political strides in the 1970s 220

Eyeing a bigger prize in the 1980s 221

Still thriving in the 1990s and early 2000s 222

Money, Money, Money 222

Looking at homeownership 222

Facing barriers in business 223

Successful Black-owned businesses 224

Unforeseen Enemies 226

Crack cocaine 226

HIV/AIDS 228

The Racial Divide 229

L.A. riots 230

The O.J. Simpson verdict 230

A modern-day lynching 231

Hurricane Katrina 232

Chapter 11: The New Civil Rights - Obama, Black Lives Matter, and Beyond 233

Gaining the Presidency 234

Obama's 2008 campaign 234

The Age of Obama, 2008-2016 235

Black community gains 236

Black Lives Matter Emerges 238

I am Trayvon 239

Ferguson explodes: Michael Brown and the impact of Eric Garner's death 242

Police killings continue: Tamir Rice and Laquan McDonald 243

Baltimore Rising: Freddie Gray 243

The Charleston Church Massacre 244

Say her name: Sandra Bland 244

Colin Kaepernick Kneels and Donald Trump Reacts 245

Trump responds 246

Kaepernick opts out of his...

Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2021
Fachbereich: Regionalgeschichte
Genre: Geschichte, Importe
Rubrik: Geisteswissenschaften
Medium: Taschenbuch
Inhalt: 544 S.
ISBN-13: 9781119780854
ISBN-10: 1119780853
Sprache: Englisch
Herstellernummer: 1W119780850
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Penrice, Ronda Racha
Hersteller: Wiley
Verantwortliche Person für die EU: Wiley-VCH GmbH, Boschstr. 12, D-69469 Weinheim, product-safety@wiley.com
Maße: 234 x 188 x 31 mm
Von/Mit: Ronda Racha Penrice
Erscheinungsdatum: 18.05.2021
Gewicht: 0,75 kg
Artikel-ID: 118940593
Über den Autor

Ronda Racha Penrice attended the M.A. program in Southern Studies at the University of Mississippi. A veteran freelance writer, the Columbia University alum has covered Black history and culture for publications including Zora, Essence, the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, Ebony, theGrio, The Root, and NBC THINK.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction 1

About This Book 2

Foolish Assumptions 3

Icons Used in This Book 4

Where to Go from Here 5

Part 1: Coming to America 7

Chapter 1: The Soul of America 9

A Peek at the Past 10

Life before slavery 11

Life before emancipation 11

Life before civil rights 12

Being Black in America Today 14

Contributions to history and culture 15

Challenges 19

Black Pride Goes Mainstream 22

Celebrating Black heritage 23

Black cultural tourism booms 24

Reconciling the Past to Create the Future 26

Slavery as an American (not Southern) institution 28

Flagging the issue 28

A question of reparations 30

Chapter 2: From Empires to Bondage: Bringing Africans to the Americas 33

Touring African Empires 34

Ghana Empire 35

Mali 35

Songhai 36

Interaction with the rest of the world 37

Origins of the Transatlantic Slave Trade 38

Slavery on the African continent 38

Launching the European slave trade 39

Enslaving Africans in Latin America and the Caribbean 41

Sanctioning and opposing slavery 42

Dealing with life enslaved 44

Seeking freedom 45

Chapter 3: The Founding of Black America 49

From Servitude to Slavery 49

Inching toward slavery 50

Why Africans? 51

The Triangular Trade 51

The Middle Passage 52

The capture 52

The voyage 54

Safe arrival 55

Black Americans and the Revolution 57

A bit of background 58

Fighting for freedom 58

Hope and disappointment 60

The Free African Society and the Birth of Black America 61

Part 2: Long Road to Freedom 63

Chapter 4: American Slavery, American Freedom 65

American Bondage 66

Northern slavery 66

Enslaved life in the South 69

Before I'd Be a Slave: Fighting the System 73

The Slave Codes 74

Rebellions 75

Running away 79

"Free" Black People 81

Different paths to freedom 82

Perhaps free, but not equal 82

Chapter 5: Bringing Down the House: Marching toward Civil War and Freedom 85

Picking Fights 86

Arguing against slavery 87

Arguing for slavery 88

Leading the Antislavery Assault: Key Abolitionists 89

Anthony Benezet 89

David Walker 90

William Lloyd Garrison 90

Frederick Douglass 91

Fighting with Words 92

Slave narratives 92

Origins of the Black press 93

Colonization (or Emigration) Movement 94

Early resettlement efforts 95

Cuffe: Man on a mission 95

Questioning motives 96

The Effects of Proslavery Politics 96

The Fugitive Slave Clause 96

Stronger fugitive slave measures: Fugitive Slave Act of 1793 97

Battling over the slave status of new land 97

The Missouri Compromise 98

The Underground Railroad 98

Operation Freedom 99

Key people along the line 99

Message in the music 103

The Breaking Point 103

Straining North-South relations 104

The Compromise of 1850 104

The Kansas-Nebraska Act 105

Slavery continues 105

Dred Scott: A strike against freedom 106

Defining events at Harpers Ferry 106

Facing the Moment of Truth 107

Chapter 6: Up from Slavery: Civil War and Reconstruction 109

The Question: To End Slavery or Not? 110

Teetering on a tightrope 110

The first Confiscation Act, 1861 111

Black People in the Early Days of the Civil War 111

Serving the Union 112

Surviving in the South 112

Moving toward the Emancipation Proclamation 113

Shutting down the illegal slave trade 113

Passing the Second Confiscation Act 114

Courting England's support 114

Free at Last (Well, Sort of): The Emancipation Proclamation 114

What the Proclamation did 115

Reaction to the order 115

Finally in the Fight 116

As Union soldiers 116

As Confederate soldiers 118

The War's End and the Thirteenth Amendment 119

(Re)constructing Democracy 121

Undermining Lincoln's plan 121

Taking back the power: Reconstruction Act of 1867 123

A Mixed Bag of Hope and Despair 123

The Freedmen's Bureau 123

Where's my 40 acres and a mule? 124

Back to the land 127

Finding a new way 128

Banking on wealth 128

Taking office 129

The Fifteenth Amendment 130

A Turn for the Worse: The End of Reconstruction 131

The Redeemers 131

The Mississippi Plan 132

Civil Rights Act of 1875 132

Pulling the plug 132

Part 3: Pillars of Change: The Civil Rights Movement 135

Chapter 7: Living Jim Crow 137

Post-Reconstruction Blues 137

The Exoduster Movement 138

Black Town, U.S.A. 139

Lynchings and riots/massacres 140

Instituting Jim Crow: Plessy v. Ferguson 146

Court cases before Plessy 146

The actual case: Plessy v. Ferguson 147

Strategies for Achieving Equality 147

Booker T. Washington: The Accommodationist 148

W.E.B. Du Bois: The Integrationist 148

Organizing for Freedom 150

National Afro-American Council 150

The National Negro Business League 150

The Niagara Movement 152

The NAACP 153

The National Urban League 154

Keep on Moving: The Great Migration 154

Leaving the South 154

Life up North 156

Marcus Garvey: Man with a Plan 156

Advocating racial pride 157

Going "Back to Africa" 157

Powerful enemies 158

Can't Catch a Break: The Depression Years and FDR 158

FDR: Friend or foe? 159

Striking a new deal 159

Can't Fool Us Twice: Black Americans and WWII 161

Chapter 8: I, Too, Sing America: The Civil Rights Movement, 1954-1963 163

The Tide Turns: Brown v. Board of Education (1954) 163

The 1954 ruling and the reaction 164

Desegregating Central High School 167

Massive resistance follows in Virginia 169

Putting a Face to Racial Violence: Emmett Till 169

Emmett Till's murder 170

The outrage of the nation 170

A New Twist in Leadership: Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. 171

Adopting the philosophy of nonviolence 172

Founding the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) 173

Sit-ins, Boycotts, and Marches: The King Era of the Civil Rights Movement Begins 173

The Montgomery Bus Boycott and Rosa Parks 174

Sitting in for justice 177

Founding SNCC 179

Riding for freedom 179

The Albany Movement: A chink in the armor 180

Integrating Ole Miss and Increasing Federal Involvement 181

1963: A Bloody Year 182

Not-so-sweet home Alabama: Birmingham 182

Murder in Mississippi: Medgar Evers 184

March of All Marches: The March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom (1963) 185

Chapter 9: Turning Up the Heat (1963-1968) 187

Suffering Two Tragic Blows 187

Four innocent victims 188

JFK dies 189

The Civil Rights Act of 1964 189

Targeting Mississippi for Voter Registration: Freedom Summer 190

Getting ready 190

Getting out the Black vote 191

Mississippi burning 192

The success of Freedom Summer 192

Oh Lord Selma: Back in Alabama 193

Getting arrested again 194

Marching from Selma to Montgomery 194

The Voting Rights Act of 1965 195

Black Power Rising 196

The Nation of Islam 196

Malcolm X 197

The Black Panther Party 199

The transformation of SNCC 200

Race Relations in the North 201

Rioting in Watts 201

The Chicago Freedom Movement 202

The Poor People's March 203

Death of a King 203

The night of his death and the mourning after 204

Continuing his work 204

Chapter 10: Where Do We Go from Here? Post-Civil Rights 207

The Panthers Stumble 208

Huey Newton: A symbol of Black Power 208

The BPP encounters challenges 208

Changing focus: Embracing nonviolence and women's leadership 213

Fighting Vietnam 214

An unfair fight 214

Reacting to the war 215

Coming home 215

Black Women Taking a Stand 217

A Race to Political Office 219

Getting a foot in the door in the 1960s 220

Making political strides in the 1970s 220

Eyeing a bigger prize in the 1980s 221

Still thriving in the 1990s and early 2000s 222

Money, Money, Money 222

Looking at homeownership 222

Facing barriers in business 223

Successful Black-owned businesses 224

Unforeseen Enemies 226

Crack cocaine 226

HIV/AIDS 228

The Racial Divide 229

L.A. riots 230

The O.J. Simpson verdict 230

A modern-day lynching 231

Hurricane Katrina 232

Chapter 11: The New Civil Rights - Obama, Black Lives Matter, and Beyond 233

Gaining the Presidency 234

Obama's 2008 campaign 234

The Age of Obama, 2008-2016 235

Black community gains 236

Black Lives Matter Emerges 238

I am Trayvon 239

Ferguson explodes: Michael Brown and the impact of Eric Garner's death 242

Police killings continue: Tamir Rice and Laquan McDonald 243

Baltimore Rising: Freddie Gray 243

The Charleston Church Massacre 244

Say her name: Sandra Bland 244

Colin Kaepernick Kneels and Donald Trump Reacts 245

Trump responds 246

Kaepernick opts out of his...

Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2021
Fachbereich: Regionalgeschichte
Genre: Geschichte, Importe
Rubrik: Geisteswissenschaften
Medium: Taschenbuch
Inhalt: 544 S.
ISBN-13: 9781119780854
ISBN-10: 1119780853
Sprache: Englisch
Herstellernummer: 1W119780850
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Penrice, Ronda Racha
Hersteller: Wiley
Verantwortliche Person für die EU: Wiley-VCH GmbH, Boschstr. 12, D-69469 Weinheim, product-safety@wiley.com
Maße: 234 x 188 x 31 mm
Von/Mit: Ronda Racha Penrice
Erscheinungsdatum: 18.05.2021
Gewicht: 0,75 kg
Artikel-ID: 118940593
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