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Title:

Encyclopedia of African American history, 1896 to the present : from the age of segregation to the twenty-first century / editor in chief, Paul Finkelman.

Publisher:

Oxford University Press,

Copyright Date:

2009

Description:

5 v. : ill. ; 29 cm.

Subject:

African Americans--History--Encyclopedias.
African Americans--History--1877-1964--Encyclopedias.
African Americans--History--1964---Encyclopedias.
African Americans--Encyclopedias.--Encyclopedias.

Other Authors:

Finkelman, Paul, 1949-

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

v. 1. A-C -- v. 2. D-I -- v. 3. J-N -- v. 4. O-T -- v. 5. U-Y, Chronology, Index

Summary:

Focusing on the making of African American society from the 1896 "separate but equal" ruling of Plessy v. Ferguson up to the contemporary period, this encyclopedia traces the transition from the Reconstruction Era to the age of Jim Crow, the Harlem Renaissance, the Great Migration, the Brown ruling that overturned Plessy , the Civil Rights Movement, and the ascendant influence of African-American culture on the American cultural landscape. --publisher description

ISBN:

0195167791 (set : alk. paper)
9780195167795 (set : alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)239240886

LCCN:

2008034263

Locations:

O4AX446 -- Chadwick Library

GFPE771 -- Altoona Public Library (Altoona)

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

OSAX771 -- Grand View University Library (Des Moines)

UQAX771 -- Des Moines Area Community College Library - Ankeny (Des Moines)

UPAX334 -- Upper Iowa University - Henderson-Wilder Library (Fayette)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)