FROM PLANTATION TO GHETTO (American Century) - Softcover

Meier, August

 
9780809001224: FROM PLANTATION TO GHETTO (American Century)

Synopsis

This pioneering work in African American history begins with the earliest experiences of blacks in the United States and offers an in-depth account of slavery, post-Civil War urban life, the place of religion in African American life, political activism, and the changing occupational and economic status of blacks.

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Review

"Done with such thoroughness and subtlety that it must stand as a classic indication of how the multidisciplinary approach can enrich historical understanding." --American Historical Review

About the Author

AUGUST MEIER is a professor emeritus of history at Kent State University. He is the author of Negro Thought in America, 1880-1915, a coauthor, with Elliott Rudwick, of From Plantation to Ghetto and Black History and the Historical Profession, and a coeditor, with John Hope Franklin, of Black Leaders of the Twentieth Century.

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9780094568105: From Plantation to Ghetto: An Interpretive History of American Negroes

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ISBN 10:  0094568103 ISBN 13:  9780094568105
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