Before the Mayflower; a History of Black AmericaTraces black history from its origins in the great empires of western Africa, the transatlantic journey to slavery, through Reconstruction, the Jim Crow era, and the civil rights upheavals of the 1960s and 1970s. |
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... federal troops was also the beginning of a protracted Cold War . Governor Orval Faubus had attempted to prevent integration by cordoning the school with Ar- kansas National Guard troops who turned back Negro students . When President ...
... federal troops was also the beginning of a protracted Cold War . Governor Orval Faubus had attempted to prevent integration by cordoning the school with Ar- kansas National Guard troops who turned back Negro students . When President ...
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... federal troops to Mississippi , and former President Eisenhower , who ordered federal troops to Arkansas , were convinced " that the dragon seed of slavery , abolished 100 years ago , would continue to flourish if it were not torn from ...
... federal troops to Mississippi , and former President Eisenhower , who ordered federal troops to Arkansas , were convinced " that the dragon seed of slavery , abolished 100 years ago , would continue to flourish if it were not torn from ...
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... federal troops to Little Rock , Ark . , to prevent interference with school integration at Central High School , September 24 . -President made nationwide TV and radio address to explain why troops were sent to Little Rock . Soldiers of ...
... federal troops to Little Rock , Ark . , to prevent interference with school integration at Central High School , September 24 . -President made nationwide TV and radio address to explain why troops were sent to Little Rock . Soldiers of ...
Contents
THE AFRICAN PAST | 3 |
BEFORE THE MAYFLOWER | 29 |
THE NEGRO IN THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION | 48 |
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