Freedom on My Mind, Combined Volume: A History of African Americans, with Documents - Softcover

White, Deborah Gray; Bay, Mia; Martin Jr., Waldo E.

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9780312197292: Freedom on My Mind, Combined Volume: A History of African Americans, with Documents

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ISBN 10: 0312197292 ISBN 13: 9780312197292

Publisher: Bedford/St. Martin's, 2012

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Award-winning scholars and veteran teachers Deborah Gray White, Mia Bay, and Waldo E. Martin Jr. have collaborated to create a fresh, innovative new African American history textbook that weaves together narrative and a wealth of carefully selected primary sources. The narrative focuses on the diversity of black experience, on culture, and on the impact of African Americans on the nation as a whole. Every chapter contains two themed sets of written documents and a visual source essay, guiding students through the process of analyzing sources and offering the convenience and value of a "two-in-one" textbook and reader.
Bedford Digital Collections for African American History

To give you more options for sources, we are offering four projects from the Bedford Digital Collections, bundled free with the purchase of a new text. This online repository of discovery-oriented projects offers both fresh and canonical sources ready to assign. Each curated project poses a historical question and guides students step by step through analysis of primary sources.

Featuring:
Convict Labor and the Building of Modern America
Talitha L. LeFlouria, Florida Atlantic University

War Stories: African American Soldiers and the Long Civil Rights Movement
Maggi M. Morehouse, Coastal Carolina University

Organization and Protest in the Civil Rights-Era South: The Montgomery Bus Boycott
Paul Harvey, University of Colorado
The Challenge of Liberal Reform: School Desegregation, North and South
Joseph Crespino, Emory University

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About the Author:

Deborah Gray White (Ph.D., University of Illinois at Chicago) is Board of Governors Professor of History at Rutgers University. She is the author of many works including Too Heavy a Load: Black Women in Defense of Themselves, 1894-1994; Ar'n't I a Woman? Female Slaves in the Plantation South; and the edited volume Telling Histories: Black Women Historians in the Ivory Tower. She is a recipient of the John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship and the Woodrow Wilson International Center Fellowship. Her current project uses the mass marches and demonstrations of the 1990s to explore the history of the decade. Mia Bay (Ph.D., Yale University) is Professor of History at Rutgers University and the Director of the Rutgers Center for Race and Ethnicity. Her publications include To Tell the Truth Freely: The Life of Ida B. Wells and The White Image in the Black Mind: African-American Ideas about White People, 1830-1925. She is a recipient of the Alphonse Fletcher Sr. Fellowship and the National Humanities Center Fellowship. Currently, she is at work on a book examining the social history of segregated transportation and a study of African American views on Thomas Jefferson. Waldo E. Martin Jr. (Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley) is Professor of History at the University of California, Berkeley. He is the author of No Coward Soldiers: Black Cultural Politics in Postwar America and The Mind of Frederick Douglass and serves as co-editor of the John Hope Franklin Series in African American History and Culture. Current projects include a forthcoming co-authored book on the Black Panther Party, as well as a book on the modern black freedom struggle with an emphasis on the impact of black cultural politics.

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