Columbia Guide to African American History Since 1939

Robert L. Harris Jr. is professor of African American history in the Africana studies and research center at Cornell University. The author of Teaching African American History, he has been a W. E. B. Du Bois Fellow at Harvard University.Rosalyn Terborg-Penn is professor of history emerita at Morgan State University. She is the author of African American Women in the Struggle for the Vote, 1850-1929 and the coeditor of several titles, including Black Women in America: An Historical Encyclopedia.

• Introduction Part I: Historical Narrative, by Robert L. Harris Jr. and Rosalyn Terborg-Penn Interpreting African American History Since 1939 Foundations of the Movement, 1939-57 The Civil Rights Movement, 1955-65 Black Power / Black Consciousness, 1965-75 A Glass Half-Full or Half-Empty Part II: Key Themes in African American History Since 1939 Naming Ourselves: The Politics and Meaning of Self-designation, by Rosalyn Terborg-Penn Looking Backward: African Americans in the Postindustrial Era, by Robin D. G. Kelley African Americans in the Military, by Brenda L. Moore African Americans in Sports: The Other Champions, by Sundiata Djata African Americans in Literature and the Arts, by Kevin Gaines and Penny M. Von Eschen Black Music and Black Possibility: From Be-Bop to Hip-Hop, by Craig Werner Black Business Development, by Juliet Walker Part III: Chronology, 1939-2005, by Robert L. Harris Jr. Part IV: A-Z Entries, by Robert L. Harris Jr. with the assistance of Michelle R. Scott Part V: Resource Guide, by Debra Newman Ham

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