Presenting history through eye-witness African-American writings, this book discusses the nineteenth-century abolitionist crusade, the Reconstruction-era civil rights movement, and the twentieth-century civil rights movement.
General Note
Includes index.
Includes chronology.
Content Note
Black abolitionists -- The Civil War and Reconstruction eras -- Booker T. Washington and his cirtics -- The early twentieth century -- Martin Luther King's forerunners.