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Encyclopedia of African American history, 1896 to the present : from the age of segregation to the twenty-first century / editor in chief, Paul Finkelman.

Contributor(s): Finkelman, Paul, 1949-.
Material type: materialTypeLabelBookPublisher: New York : Oxford University Press, 2009Description: v. 1-3, 5 : ill. ; 29 cm.ISBN: 9780195167795 (set : alk. paper); 0195167791 (set : alk. paper).Subject(s): African Americans -- History -- Encyclopedias | African Americans -- History -- 1877-1964 -- Encyclopedias | African Americans -- History -- 1964- -- Encyclopedias | African Americans -- Biography -- EncyclopediasDDC classification: 973/.0496073 Online resources: Click here to access online
Contents:
v. 1. A-C -- v. 2. D-I -- v. 3. J-N -- v. 5. U-Y, Index.
Summary: Focusing on the making of African American society from the 1896 "separate but equal" ruling of Plessy v. Ferguson up to the contemporary period, this encyclopedia traces the transition from the Reconstruction Era to the age of Jim Crow, the Harlem Renaissance, the Great Migration, the Brown ruling that overturned Plessy , the Civil Rights Movement, and the ascendant influence of African-American culture on the American cultural landscape. --publisher description
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

v. 1. A-C -- v. 2. D-I -- v. 3. J-N -- v. 5. U-Y, Index.

Focusing on the making of African American society from the 1896 "separate but equal" ruling of Plessy v. Ferguson up to the contemporary period, this encyclopedia traces the transition from the Reconstruction Era to the age of Jim Crow, the Harlem Renaissance, the Great Migration, the Brown ruling that overturned Plessy , the Civil Rights Movement, and the ascendant influence of African-American culture on the American cultural landscape. --publisher description

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