Kevern Verney is a Senior Lecturer in American History at Edge Hill College of Higher Education. He is the author of Black Civil Rights in America (Routledge 2000) and The Art of the Possible: Booker T. Washington and Black Leadership in the United States, 1881-1925 (Routledge 2001).

• INTRODUCTION Emancipation and segregation; Chapter 1 Migration and urbanization, 1915–30; Chapter 2 The Great Depression and the Second World War, 1930–45; Chapter 3 The Civil Rights era, 1945–65; Chapter 4 Black Power, 1965–76; Chapter 5 African Americans in US society since 1976;

Kevern Verney is a Senior Lecturer in American History at Edge Hill College of Higher Education. He is the author of Black Civil Rights in America (Routledge 2000) and The Art of the Possible: Booker T. Washington and Black Leadership in the United States, 1881-1925 (Routledge 2001).

• INTRODUCTION Emancipation and segregation; Chapter 1 Migration and urbanization, 1915–30; Chapter 2 The Great Depression and the Second World War, 1930–45; Chapter 3 The Civil Rights era, 1945–65; Chapter 4 Black Power, 1965–76; Chapter 5 African Americans in US society since 1976;

Kevern Verney is a Senior Lecturer in American History at Edge Hill College of Higher Education. He is the author of Black Civil Rights in America (Routledge 2000) and The Art of the Possible: Booker T. Washington and Black Leadership in the United States, 1881-1925 (Routledge 2001).

• INTRODUCTION Emancipation and segregation; Chapter 1 Migration and urbanization, 1915–30; Chapter 2 The Great Depression and the Second World War, 1930–45; Chapter 3 The Civil Rights era, 1945–65; Chapter 4 Black Power, 1965–76; Chapter 5 African Americans in US society since 1976;