Traces over four centuries of African American history, drawing on personal journals, interviews, and archival materials to document times ranging from the Colonial period and slavery through the Civil War and the Civil Rights era

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Exploration of the New World and settlements in Colonial America -- Slavery -- Road to the Civil War -- Reconstruction and Jim Crow -- Two World Wars and the black cultural awakening -- Civil rights movement to the black power movement -- African Americans advance -- African Americans today