Blacks in the diaspora

Text and over 450 photographs bring together a comprehensive picture of African-American women in America, from seventeenth-century slave women to contemporary figures. Includes both biographical essays on individual women and broad topical essays on slavery, religion, the law, civil rights, and education.

Analyses, children's literature of the Harlem Renaissance, and explores the identity of black childhood and uncovers the networks of African-American philosophers, community activists, schoolteachers, and literary artists who worked together to transmit the history and culture to the next generation.