Gates, Henry Louis

This is a story about America during and after Reconstruction, one of history's most pivotal and misunderstood chapters. Real-life accounts drive the narrative, spanning the half century between the Civil War and Birth of a Nation. Here, you will come face-to-face with the people and events of Reconstruction's noble democratic experiment, its tragic undermining, and the drawing of a new "color line" in the long Jim Crow era that followed. In introducing young readers to them, and to the resiliency of the African American people at times of progress and betrayal, Professor Gates shares a history that remains vitally relevant today.

A collection of nearly 150 annotated African American folktales.

Explores African American history through one hundred question and answers: Who was the first African American? Did black people own slaves? Who was the first black president in North America? How much African ancestry does the average African American have? Who was the first black American woman to be a self-made millionaire?.

A companion book to the six-part documentary of the same name, which chronicles five hundred years of African American history.