The African-American Mosaic: A Library of Congress Resource Guide for the Study of Black History and Culture

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Library of Congress, 1993 - 300 páginas
This book presents a broad survey of the Library of Congress's holdings concerning the history and culture of black Americans in the United States. It provides titles of bibliographies, other guides, aids to finding materials, and individual items. This guide, which is arranged chronologically, discusses Library of Congress collections in three main parts: Part 1, "African-Americans in the Antebellum Period," includes materials about: slavery; free blacks; and abolitionists' antislavery movements, and sectional controversy. Part 2, "Emancipation and Beyond," begins with the Civil War, moves into the Reconstruction era, (which includes materials dating to approximately 1880), and ends with what is called the Booker T. Washington era, which spans the years from 1880 to approximately 1915. Part 3, "And the Pursuit of Happiness," discusses: World War I and Postwar Society; the Depression, the New Deal, and World War II; and the Civil Rights era. The guide contains an index. (GLR)

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Free Blacks in the Antebellum Period
30
Abolitionists Antislavery Movements and the Rise of the Sectional Controversy
50
FOREVER FREEEMANCIPATION AND BEYOND
67
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