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African American History : A Divided Nation: The Turbulent Fifties

Editor in Chief: Claudrena Harold, University of Virginia

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1. Many Thousand Gone: The Black Experience in Colonial America
2. In Hope of Liberty: African American Life in the Age of Revolution
3. Now Comes the Test: Race, Nation, and the Limits of Freedom in the Early Republic
4. There Is a River: Black Protest in Antebellum America
5. A Divided Nation: The Turbulent Fifties
6. The Dawn of Freedom: The Civil War and the Reconstruction of a Nation
7. The Betrayal of the Negro: Black Accommodation and Black Protest in the Era of Jim Crow
8. If We Must Die: World War I and the New Negro Renaissance
9. Making a New Deal: African Americans, Organized Labor, and Shifting Political Alliances
10. Double V: African Americans, World War II, and the Dawn of Cold War Era Politics
11. From Montgomery to Selma: The Modern Civil Rights Movement
12. Fire Next Time: Martin Luther King, the Poor People’s Campaign, and Opposition to the Vietnam War
13. Say It Loud: Black Power, Black Feminism, and the Search for a New Radical Paradigm
14. From Protest to Politics: Black Life in the Post–Civil Rights Era
15. From Katrina to Obama: Race in the New Millennium

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