Prologue
The freedom war, 1861-1865
Postwar Reconstruction, 1865-1877
Resisting the juggernaut of White supremacy, 1878-1906
Black leaders at the turn of the century, 1893-1916
Great War, Great Migration, and Jim Crow, 1917-1924
Renaissance in Harlem, dark ages elsewhere, 1924-1941
World War II and its aftermath, 1941-1948
Three steps forward, two steps back, 1949-1959
The civil rights movement, 1960-1965
Black power and grassroots protest, 1966-1980
Reagan, rap, and resistance, 1979-2000
Epilogue.
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We ain't what we ought to be : the black freedom struggle from emancipation to Obama by Stephen G. N. Tuck. ISBN 9780674036260. Published by Belknap Press of Harvard University Press in 2010. Publication and catalogue information, links to buy online and reader comments.
