Gates, Henry Louis, Jr.
New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2011.
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• Includes bibliographical references and index.
• pt. 1. Origins, 1513-1760 : African slaves, African conquistadors Origins of North American slavery From red to black slavery First Africans and the growth of northern slavery Royal African Company Early misgivings Fear and resistance Inoculation Fort Mose: a different trajectory — pt. 2. Forging freedom, 1760-1804 : First blooms Crispus Attucks and the freedom struggle Colored patriots The king’s freedom Declaring independence Unleashing freedom Freedom, technology, and king cotton Establishing freedom Creating a black Atlantic Toussaint! — pt. 3. It shall ever be our duty to vindicate our brethren, 1800-1834 : Tracing the trade End of the slave trade in Britain and the United States, 1807 and 1808 Serving freedom in the War of 1812 Yarrow Mamout by Charles Willson Peale and the rise of a people Colonization and Liberia A fire bell in the night Freedom’s Journal and Walker’s Appeal The Liberator and William Lloyd Garrison Nat Turner The founding of the American Anti-slavery Society and Maria Stewart British emancipation — pt. 4. Race and resistance, 1834-1850 : Oberlin College Magician and ventriloquist Julia Chinn An uncompromising talent Opposing black freedom The Amistad and the Creole Finding freedom in Massachusetts Frederick Douglass Crosscurrents of 1848: French abolition and the Pearl Rush for gold Harriet Tubman, American icon The Roberts case and the birth of Jim Crow — pt. 5. Emergence, 1850-1860 : The new fugitive slave law Resisting the Fugitive Slave Law Martin R. Delany and Harriet Beecher Stowe Institute for Colored Youth The black swan Clotel or, The President’s Daughter and Colored Patriots of the American Revolution Anthony Burns John Mercer Langston and the bar of justice Berea College and Wilberforce University Dred Scott Our Nig — pt. 6. War and its meaning, 1859-1865 : Harpers Ferry This is a white man’s war! Contraband The Port Royal experiment An act for the release of c
• pt. 7. Reconstructing a nation, 1866-1877 : Formation of the Ku Klux Klan Civil Rights Act of 1866 Murder in Memphis, 1866 Fourteenth Amendment and black citizenship Reconstruction and black higher education Fifteenth Amendment to the Constitution African American diplomats Hiram Rhodes Revels Blanche K. Bruce, Robert Smalls, and African Americans in Congress Harvard and Yale, 1870 and 1876 Civil Rights Act of 1871: the Ku Klux Klan Act The decline of civil rights, 1875-1883 Fisk University Jubilee Singers Charlotte Ray U.S. Supreme Court and the Fourteenth Amendment: the slaughterhouse cases The Catholic Healys Convict lease End of reconstruction and ho for Kansas! — pt. 8. There is no Negro problem, 1877-1895 : Black frontierspeople and cowboys The inventive Lewis H. Latimer Knights of Labor and Colored Farmers’ Alliance Education and philanthropy in the nineteenth century Major league baseball and Jim Crow Mississippi plan and black disenfranchisement Provident Hospital and Dr. Daniel Dale Williams Ida B. Wells-Barnett and lynching The World’s Columbian Exposition and The Banjo Lesson by Henry Ossawa Tanner W.E.B. Du Bois and Harvard University — pt. 9. New negro, old problem, 1895-1900 : Booker T. Washington at the Atlanta Cotton States Exposition Plessy v. Ferguson The National Association of Colored Women and the American Negro Academy Wilmington, North Carolina, race riot of 1898 Buffalo soldiers War with Spain and for an empire Afro-American Council W.E.B. Du Bois: the Paris albums, 1900 Photo essay: Sambo art Photo essay: The new negro — pt. 10. The ordeal of Jim Crow, 1900-1917 : George H. White and the ordeal of black politics Dinner at the White House The music of Johnson, Johnson, and Cole Charles W. Chesnutt and James Weldon Johnson Paul Laurence Dunbar and In Dahomey The Boston Guardian and the Chicago Defender The Souls of Black Folk Mary McLeod Bethune and African American education Niagara movement The
• pt. 13. The era of World War II, 1939-1950 : Marian Anderson performs at the Lincoln Memorial The March on Washington Movement and Executive Order 8802 Moving toward the Double V African Americans in the military during World War II — The Tuskegee Airmen World War II-era race riots John H. Johnson, Ebony, and Jet — The Congress of Racial Equality and the journey of reconciliation John Hope Franklin Jackie Robinson and black baseball Executive orders and To Secure These Rights The artistry of Gordon Parks — pt. 14. Foundations of the new civil rights movement, 1950-1963 : Breaking a barrier: Billy Eckstine Postwar accomplishments: Alice Coachman, Wesley Brown, Gwendolyn Brooks, and Ralph Bunche Brown v. Board of Education and school desegregation Invisible Man The White Citizens’ Council Emmett Till Rosa Parks and boycotting the buses Little Rock and the Civil Rights Act of 1957 Southern Christian Leadership Conference and the stabbing of Martin Luther King, Jr. A Raisin in the Sun Student nonviolent coordinating committee and sit-ins Biloxi wade-in, Atlanta kneel-in, Jacksonville violence, University of Georgia riot Freedom rides Bill Russell and the Boston Celtics James Baldwin’s Go Tell It on the Mountain — pt. 15. The movement at high tide, 1963-1968 : Martin Luther King, Jr.’s Letter from Birmingham Jail March on Washington and the Sixteenth Street Baptist Church bombing Live at the Apollo LeRoi Jones’s Blues People and King’s Nobel Peace Prize Chaney, Goodman, and Schwerner, and Freedom Summer War on Poverty, Economic Opportunity Act, Moynihan Report, Robert Weaver, Constance Baker Motley, Thurgood Marshall Civil Rights Act of 1964 and Voting Rights Act of 1965 Manchild in the Promised Land and The Autobiography of Malcolm X Malcolm X and the Nation of Islam James Meredith and Medgar Evers Civil rights protests and urban rioting in the north Selma, 1965 Sammy Younge, Vernon Dahmer, and the march against fear Float like a butterfl
• Henry Louis Gates, Jr., gives us a sumptuously illustrated, landmark book tracing African American history from the arrival of the conquistadors to the election of Barack Obama. Informed by the latest, sometimes provocative scholarship, and including more than eight hundred images–ancient maps, art, documents, photographs, cartoons, posters–Life Upon These Shores focuses on defining events, debates, and controversies, as well as the achievements of people famous and obscure. Gates takes us from the sixteenth century through the ordeal of slavery, from the Civil War and Reconstruction through the Jim Crow era and the Great Migration from the civil rights and black nationalist movements through the age of hip-hop on to the Joshua generation. By documenting and illuminating the sheer diversity of African American involvement in American history, society, politics, and culture, Gates bracingly disabuses us of the presumption of a single Black Experience. Life Upon These Shores is a book of major importance, a breathtaking tour de force of the historical imagination — Provided by publisher.

Subjects:

• African Americans — History.
• African Americans — History — Pictorial works.
• United States — Civilization — African American influences.
• HISTORY / United States / General bisacsh
• SOCIAL SCIENCE / Ethnic Studies / African American Studies bisacsh
• BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Cultural Heritage bisacsh

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