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This book emphasizes blacks' agency and achievements in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, notably outcomes of the Civil Rights Movement. To consider the means or strategies that African Americans utilized in pursuing their aspirations and struggles for freedom and equality, readers can consult subjects delineating ideological, institutional, and organizational aspects of black priorities, with tactics of resistance or dissent, over time and place. The entries include but are not limited to Afro-American Culture; Anti-Apartheid Movement; Anti-lynching Campaign; Antislavery Movement; Black Power Movement; Constitution, US (1789); Conventions, National Negro; Desegregation; Durham Manifesto (1942); Feminism; Four Freedoms; Haitian Revolution; Jobs Campaigns; the March on Washington (1963); March on Washington Movement (MOWM); New Negro Movement; Niagara Movement; Pan-African Movement; Religion; Slavery; Violence, Racial; and the Voter Education Project. While providing an important reference and learning tool, this volume offers a critical perspective on the actions and legacies of ordinary and elite blacks and their non-black allies.

African Americans --- Ethnic & Race Studies --- Gender & Ethnic Studies --- Social Sciences --- Black history --- History --- History. --- African Americans history --- history

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Praised as ?viscerally powerful" (Publishers Weekly), this remarkable work of oral history captures the searing experience of the Jim Crow years?enriched by memories of individual, family, and community triumphs and tragedies. In vivid, compelling accounts, men and women from all walks of life tell how their day-to-day lives were subjected to profound and unrelenting racial oppression. At the same time, Remembering Jim Crow is a testament to how black Southerners fought back against the system?raising children, building churches and schools, running businesses, and struggling for respect in a

African Americans -- Civil rights -- Southern States -- History. --- African Americans -- Segregation -- Southern States -- History. --- African Americans -- Southern States -- Interviews. --- Oral history. --- Southern States -- Race relations.