Here for the first time in one comprehensive volume is a visual and narrative portrait of the African-American heritage, culture, and people. It is one of the few single-volume works to highlight the historical and cultural contributions of the African-American population within regional, national, and international frameworks. The ATLAS chronicles important periods in African-American history that have shaped the outlook, lives, and hopes of African-Americans today. More than 130 four-color maps, tables, and diagrams illustrate and complement statistical information covering a wide range of topics, including percentage of population figures, historic locations migration routes, underground railroad sites, the growth of the KKK, Freedom Aid Societies, the Black Middle Class, African-American colleges, and much more. Accompanying text provides persistent themes, and biographical and thematic "snapshots" that are strategically placed to highlight events and people. The effect is to provide the reader with an opportunity to synthesize particular occurrences and the overriding sentiments of the time. The ATLAS is organized into thirteen chapters and examines African origins, the transatlantic journey, African resistance to enslavement, the slave experience, African-American resistance movement to slavery, abolition movements and pro-slavery elements, the Civil War, reconstruction and effects of emancipation, killings and lynchings during the late 19th and early 20th centuries, segregation, the Civil Rights Movement, African-American achievements, and social and economic realities. The ATLAS also provides a section of important dates in African-American history. Listed chronologically from 1619 to 1990, it highlights important occurrences within a frame of reference that enhances reader understanding of its significance. Molefi Asante is Professor and Chairperson of the Dept. of African-American studies at Temple University.
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