Wade in the water : great moments in Black history / Lerone Bennett, Jr.

Bibliography: p.301-307

Includes index

Includes bibliographical references (pages 301-307) and index.

Home in that Rock: First black convention -- No hidin' place: Nat Turner's bloody sermon -- He who is whipped: "Trial" of Frederick Douglass -- Sweet chariot: Private war of Harriet Tubman -- Black and blue: Shootout at Chaffin's farm -- Almost free at last: Day slavery died -- Black and white: People's convention -- Sunrise at Harpers Ferry: Prelude to protest -- Eagle in the air: Jack Johnson and the great white hope -- Storm warning: Marcus Garvey's hour of triumph -- This train: Day they didn't march -- Write my name: D-Day at the Supreme Court -- Walk together, children: Beginning of the Black revolution -- All God's children: Five-and-dime bastille -- Good news: Day they marched -- Selected biography -- Index.

Wade In the Water gives the reader a front-row seat at some of the most dramatic events in American history. Starting with the founding of Black America at the first Black convention, the book re-creates the drama and the human dimensions of Nat Turner's slave revolt and Harriet Tubman's slave raids and makes the reader a witness and a participant in key events of the Civil War, Reconstruction, and the Freedom Movement of the twentieth century. There is also a pioneering chapter on sports as history, Jack Johnson and the Great White Hope, which was the basis of the national television.

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