The Negro revolt.
In this remarkably objective and informed report the award-winning author and journalist Louis E. Lomax takes a searching new look at American history-from the early seventeenth century up to the present-as he traces some three hundred years of struggle, during which the American Negro has sought to...
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New York,
Harper
[1962]
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Table of Contents:
- Part I. A Negro view of American history
- Background of the revolt
- The American Revolution and its aftermath
- The Civil War
- The faiths that failed
- The emerging tribe
- Beyond the southland
- Part II. The Negro revolt
- The Negro in the fifties
- The birth of the revolt
- The NAACP
- The sit-ins
- The freedom rides
- The crisis in Negro leadership
- The black Muslims
- The white liberal
- Pain and progress
- Part III. The way ahead
- The Urban League
- The American Negro and his government
- The international context of the revolt.