1877-1964

Focuses on the files of surveillance on African Americans by the Federal Bureau of Investigation.

Discusses the events of a 25-year period during which blacks emerged as a force in their attempts to gain political and cultural recognition and increased civil rights.

Examines the pioneering role of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People in the struggle for civil rights during the Jazz Age, and looks at the achievements of NAACP leaders James Weldon Johnson, Walter White, and W.E.B. Du Bois, as well as their following of thousands of working class members across the nation.

Eyewitness accounts of three decades of civil rights history.

Presents biographies of six African Americans prominent in the arts and business worlds during the period known as the Harlem Renaissance--Bessie Smith, James Weldon Johnson, Langston Hughes, A'lelia Walker, Augusta Fells Savage, and Arturo A. Schomburg.

Presents short readings from primary and other sources related to the Great Migration, when more than six million African-Americans migrated from the American South to the North, between 1910 and 1970.

Examines the events that led to the development of the American South's Jim Crow laws, which severely limited the rights of African-Americans in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

Photographs and text explore the African American struggle from 1954 to 1968, exploring the events that impacted the civil rights movement and profiling key figures from the era.

Uses narrative history and primary sources to chronicle the African American experience during and after World War II, focusing on the social, economic, and military impact of the war.

Traces the history of African-Americans from the end of Reconstruction to the Niagara Movement begun by W. E. B. DuBois in 1905.