Introduction - Chapter 1: 1840s to 1880s: The Struggle to Abolish Slavery - Chapter 2: 1890s to 1919: Disenfranchisement. The Struggle Against the Imposition of American Apartheid - Chapter 3: 1919 to 1954: The Making of Black Urban America - Chapter 4: 1954 to 1975: The Civil Rights Movement and Black Power - Chapter 5: Since 1975: The Struggle for Equal Participation in Democracy - Chronology - Index - Illustration Credits
Dr. Manning Marable is a prominent lecturer and interpreter of the politics and history of race in America. He is the Founding Director of the Institute for Research in African-American Studies at Columbia University in New York City, and is the author of more than fifteen books on the subject, including the highly acclaimed Black Leadership (1998), and co-edited with Leith Mullings a groundbreaking anthology of African-American texts, Let Nobody Turn Us Around (2000); in 1994 Marable initiated Souls: A Critical Journal of Black Politics, Culture and Society, a quarterly journal that examines key theoretical issues within black America, Africa and the Caribbean, which is distributed throughout the U.S. and internationally. Leith Mullings is presidential professor of anthropology at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York, and is the author of many books with a special emphasis on the study of race, class, and gender in African-American communities.
'an extraordinary photography history - an admirably concise account by - Manning Marable and Leith Mullings ... it is the book's 550 photographs that give the story its point and meaning. - taken as a whole, these are images that retain an astonishing power. ' Mike Phillips, The Independent, 20 October 2002 'Dramatic. Arresting. Haunting.' The Herald, 19 October 2002 'A shocking compendium of both triumphant and desperately tragic images - Thoughtful and authoritative, this chronicle of determination and courage instantly absorbs the reader through the sheer wealth of fact and the beautiful reproduction of the prints. An important, compelling documentary.' Creative Review, December 2002 'fascinating' Daily Mail, 20 December 2002 'an enormous, engrossing, disturbing, and superbly produced book.' Church Times, 17 January 2003 'will enthral anyone interested in civil liberty, social anthropology, the politics of inequality or race relations.' Amateur Photographer, 15 February 2003
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