Traces the history of black people in America from the arrival of the first slave ships to the civil rights movements of the 1960's.

Tells the stories and documents the contributions of African American women involved in the struggle for racial and gender equality through the civil rights and

It might seem that African Americans and Mexican Americans would have common cause in matters of civil rights. This volume, which considers relations between bl

At the height of the cold war, southern segregationists exploited the reigning mood of anxiety by linking the civil rights movement to an international Communis

From postwar efforts to end discrimination in the motion-picture industry, recording studios, and musicians’ unions, through the development of community-base