From the Book - [1st ed.]
Black Reconstruction: the southern negro as statesman – The birth of the myth: separate but equal – The legacy of Reconstruction: negro participation in politics and labor – Achievements despite separation: a black world apart – Implications of black inferiority: the one-sided issue – American expansionism: negros serve their country at home and abroad – Black protest and pride: reaction to sanctioned discrimination – Protest and affirmative action: first movements towards black unity – Defeat at home, victory abroad: negros fight in the courts and on the battlefields – Promises of the twenties: broken by politics, fulfilled through black pride – Depression and the New Deal: the black factor in the national economy – World War II, Korea, Vietnam: the military integrates – Black breakthrough: negro gift to the “soulless world” – The burgeoning black middle class: its supplies and demands – Black power in the establishment: elections and appointments – Direct action and passive resistance: the struggle to let freedom ring.
