African American History [Paperback]

Kevin Gaines presents an incisive overview of recent developments in the field of African American history, focusing on significant contributions such as slavery and the slave trade, segregation in both the South and North, and the longcivil rights movement.Kevin Gaines presents an incisive overview of recent developments in the field of African American history, focusing on significant contributions such as slavery and the slave trade, segregation in both the South and North, and the longcivil rights movement.Series ForewordIntroductionSlaveryAfter Slavery: African-American Political Behavior in the Era of SegregationThe Long Civil Rights MovementBibliographyKevin Gaines is the Robert Hayden Collegiate Professor of History and Afroamerican and African Studies at the University of Michigan. He is author of Uplifting the Race: Black Leadership, Politics, and Culture during the Twentieth Century (1996), winner of the John Hope Franklin Book Prize of the American Studies Association, and American Africans in Ghana: Black Expatriates and the Civil Rights Era (2006). He was president of the American Studies Association in 2009-10.