Black history : a reappraisal / edited with commentary by Melvin Drimmer.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 531-538) and index.

Also issued online.

Of our spiritual strivings / W.E.B. Du Bois -- African history / Philip D. Curtin -- Kingdoms of the old Sudan / Basil Davidson -- The Negro in the Americas / Frank Tannenbaum -- Slavery and the genesis of American race prejudice / Carl Degler -- Was slavery dying before the cotton gin? / Melvin Drimmer -- Slavery and the Founding Fathers / Staughton Lynd -- Evacuation with the British / Benjamin Quarles -- The historian and the Southern Negro slavery / Kenneth M. Stampp -- Motherhood in bondage / E. Franklin Frazier -- Slavery and personality / Stanley Elkins -- THe black abolitionists / Leon Litwack -- The causes of the Civil War : a note on historical sentimentalism / Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr. -- The Negro : innately inferior or equal? / James M. McPherson -- " ... Even the slave becomes a man ..." / Dudley T. Cornish -- Reconstruction and its benefits / W.E.B. Du Bois -- The political legacy of Reconstruction / C. Vann Woodward -- The South/s new leaders / John Hope Franklin -- Capitulation to racism / C. Vann Woodward -- Booker T. Washington : an interpretation / August Meier -- W.E.B. Du Bois, entente with white liberals, 1910-1920 / Francis L. Broderick -- "Come out from among them" : Negro migration and settlement, 1890-1914 / Gilbert Osofsky -- Marcus Garvey : "one aim! one God! one destiny!" E. David Cronon --?The background of the Negro Renaissance / Robert A. Bone -- The school segregation cases / Anthony Lewis -- On the role of Martin Luther King / August Meier -- The Black Muslims as a protest movement / C. Eric Lincoln -- The pilgrimage of Malcolm X / I.F. Stone -- Du Bois : a contemporary assessment / Harold R. Isaacs -- Notes on Negro American influences on the emergence of African nationalism / George Shepperson -- Why Negroes are still angry / Victor H. Berstein.

Essays which present the Black role in American history, each prefaced by an analysis of the historical events surrounding the period it covers.

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