Litwack, Leon F

Discusses the brutality and legal oppression of African-American life after slavery in the U.S., covering segregation, lynchings, denial of housing and education, participation of African-Americans in U.S. wars, and the continuing struggle to be treated as equals.

A history of African-Americans in the years of the Jim Crow laws of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, looking at how African-American southerners struggled, worked, tried to educate themselves, and learned to live with the subordination and separation of their race.

Researches the character of slavery, new freedom and racial relationships on both African-Americans and whites of the Reconstruction period.

Provides biographical accounts of seventeen nineteenth-century African-American leaders.

Researches the character of slavery, new freedom and racial relationships on both blacks and whites of the Reconstruction period.