Product Description: Building on the authoritative text of the first edition, Atlas of African-American History, Revised Edition chronicles the important cultural, historical, political, and social experiences of African Americans through the years. Completely updated and revised, this fascinating book features numerous full-color maps - 18 of which are new - that engage readers with easy-to-grasp facts, figures, and images of everyday life...read more

Product Description: Here is a reprint of one of the most popular Beginners books. Covering a rich history often ignored, Denise Dennis chronicles the struggle from capture and enslavement in Africa right up through Civil Rights and the different kind of struggle Blacks face today.

Enhanced by nearly 150 images of painting, sculptures, photographs, quilts, and other work by black artists, offers a survey of African American history which covers the predominant political, economic, and demographic conditions of black Americans.

Product Description: They arrived in North America as slaves of the first European settlers, and their history is largely one of hardship and injustice. Here is their story, including their emancipation in the 1860s, their leadership in the civil rights movement of a century later—but also their artists, intellectuals, musicians, educators, military heroes, athletes, and social leaders...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Photographs from the 1840s to the present trace the efforts of African Americans to overcome slavery and racism, and depict significant events and the accomplishments of blacks in the arts, education, business, and politics.

Product Description: Lavishly illustrated with a unique collection of archive photographs and other material, Black America charts the progress of Black Americans from their earliest days in the Caribbean to the plantations of the Deep South. The book covers their role in society and their culture and follows their mixed fortunes through the Civil War and Reconstruction...read more

Examines the social and communal history of African Americans from 1650 through 1995 (view table of contents)

An updated edition of the authoritative history of African Americans, from 1619 to the present, incorporates more than one hundred new photographs documenting developments over the last decade and celebrates the contributions of a range of notable personalities. 15,000 first printing.

Illustrations, maps, graphs, and portraits dealing with the history of blacks in America, from the earliest days of slave trading to the present