Before the Mayflower : a history of Black America /
History of Black America
Lerone Bennett, Jr.
- Eighth edition.
- 804 pages : illustrations (some colour), portraits ; 23 cm
Includes bibliographical references (pages 767-784) and index.
The African Past -- Before the Mayflower -- The Founding of Black America -- Behind the Cotton Curtain -- Blood on the Leaves: Revolts and Conspiracies -- The Generation of Crisis -- The Jubilee War: Witnesses and Warriors -- Black Power in the Old South -- The Life and Times of Jim Crow -- Red, White and Black: Race and Sex -- From Booker T. Washington to Martin Luther King Jr. -- The Time of the Whale -- Landmarks and Milestones -- Black Firsts -- Select Bibliography -- Index. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12.