We ain't what we ought to be : the Black freedom struggle from emancipation to Obama /

We ain't what we ought to be : the Black freedom struggle from emancipation to Obama /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Tuck, Stephen G. N.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Cambridge, Mass. : Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2010.
Subjects:
African Americans > Civil rights > History.
Social justice > United States > History.
Civil rights movements > United States > History.
African Americans > History > 1863-1877.
African Americans > History > 1877-1964.
African Americans > History > 1964-
United States > Race relations.
Table of Contents:
  • Prologue
  • The freedom war, 1861-1865
  • Freedom is not enough, 1865-1877
  • Resisting the juggernaut of White supremacy, 1878-1906
  • Black leaders reckon with Jim Crow, 1893-1916
  • Great War and Great Migration, 1917-1924
  • Renaissance in Harlem, dark ages elsewhere, 1924-1941
  • World War II and its aftermath, 1941-1948
  • Three steps forward, two steps back, 1949-1959
  • The civil rights movement, 1960-1965
  • Black power and grassroots protest, 1966-1978
  • Reagan, rap, and resistance, 1979-2000
  • Epilogue.