LEADER 05856nam 2200769Ia 450 001 9910459162003321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a1-282-29493-8 010 $a9786612294938 010 $a1-59884-003-7 035 $a(CKB)2650000000000017 035 $a(EBL)2040087 035 $a(OCoLC)460057479 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000288360 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)12082992 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000288360 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10374676 035 $a(PQKB)10812602 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC2040087 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL2040087 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10331634 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL229493 035 $a(EXLCZ)992650000000000017 100 $a20090416d2009 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aAfrican Americans in the West$b[electronic resource] /$fDouglas Flamming 210 $aSanta Barbara, Calif. $cABC-CLIO$dc2009 215 $a1 online resource (378 p.) 225 1 $aCultures in the American West 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a1-59884-002-9 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $a""Cover""; ""Contents""; ""Series Introduction""; ""Preface""; ""Maps""; ""1 The African American West: Getting Started""; ""Defining the West""; ""Why Study the West?""; ""Americans of African Descent""; ""About This Book""; ""2 Frontiers of Slavery and Freedom, 1815a???1865""; ""Slavery on the Early Frontier""; ""The Community Impulse""; ""Black Individualism""; ""Texas and Slavery""; ""Indian Territory and Slavery""; ""The Mexican War""; ""The California Gold Rush""; ""The Slavery Cases and Colored Conventions""; ""Beyond the West of Bondage?""; ""The West and the Civil War"" 327 $a""Conclusion""""Bibliographic Essay""; ""3 Trailblazers in the New West, 1866a???1890""; ""The Cowboys""; ""Soldiering West""; ""To Kansas!""; ""Oklahoma""; ""The Black Towns""; ""The Rise of the Urban West""; ""Building ""Community""""; ""Bibliographic Essay""; ""4 Seeking Freedom in the West, 1890a???1920""; ""A Different Kind of Black Experience""; ""The South in Crisis""; ""The ""Talented Tenth"" Migration""; ""The Great Migration""; ""No Rush Westward""; ""Community Life in the Black West""; ""The Afro-American Council""; ""The Colored Women's Clubs""; ""The Rise of the NAACP"" 327 $a""World War I""""Bibliographic Essay""; ""5 Between the World Wars, 1920a???1940""; ""The Tulsa Race Riot""; ""The Second Ku Klux Klan""; ""Garveyism out West""; ""The New Negro Renaissance""; ""The NAACP Convention of 1928""; ""The Great Depression and the New Deal""; ""Bibliographic Essay""; ""6 World War II and the Great Transformation""; ""The Defense Economy""; ""The Second Great Migration""; ""The Role of the Federal Government""; ""Race and Organized Labor""; ""The Port Chicago Disaster""; ""The Housing Crisis""; ""Liberty Ships""; ""Bibliographic Essay"" 327 $a""7 The Era of Racial Liberalism, 1945a???1965""""An Even Greater Migration""; ""The Housing Crises""; ""Fighting for Civil Rights""; ""Direct-Action Protests""; ""Direct Action in the West""; ""Sports and Entertainment""; ""The Political Arena""; ""Bibliographic Essay""; ""8 The Era of Black Nationalism, 1965a???1980""; ""The Black West as Trendsetter""; ""Rebellion in Watts""; ""The Aftermath""; """"Black Power!""""; ""Karenga and Kwanzaa""; ""The Black Panthers""; ""Angela Davis and Che-Lumumba""; ""Civil Rights in the West (continued . . .)""; ""The Electoral Arena"" 327 $a""The 1968 Olympic Games""""Blacks and Hollywood""; ""Conclusion""; ""Bibliographic Essay""; ""9 The African American West since 1980: Decline and Success""; ""The Urban Crisis""; ""The Rodney King Beating""; ""The L.A. Riot""; ""Gangsta Rap""; ""Willie Brown: Political Star""; ""Sports as the Great Equalizer?""; ""Suburbanization""; ""Leaving the West""; ""Bibliographic Essay""; ""10 Historiography and Current Issues""; ""The Historiography of the Black West""; ""A New Wave of Multiracial History?""; ""A ""Minority Majority""?""; ""Chronology""; ""Glossary""; ""A""; ""B""; ""C""; ""D"" 327 $a""E"" 330 $aFrom colonial times to the present, this volume captures the experiences of the westward migration of African Americans. Based on the latest research, it offers a fresh look at the many ways African Americans influenced-and were influenced by-the development of the U.S. frontier. 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