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The African American Experience | The American
Mosaic
Time Periods The African American Experience: The American Mosaic provides a
comprehensive survey of African American history as its heartbreaking
Africa and the Atlantic, 500–1550 struggles, major movements—political, social, artistic, and literary—and
most notable events and legislative reform. It gives voice to the experience of
Africans in Colonial North African Americans from their arrival in the Americas through to the present day,
America, 1550s–1760 including the influence of the black community on popular culture and the
Hopes for a New Nation aspirations of African Americans as expressed through the campaign of hope on
1763–1816 which Barack Obama ran in 2008.
Antebellum, 1816–1846 n Includes nearly 1,000 biographies of such famous
political and social figures as W.E.B. DuBois, Barack
Civil War and Emancipation, Obama, and Frederick Douglass as well as such
1846–1877 fascinating contemporary figures as Amiri Baraka,
Muhammad Ali, Drake, and Oprah Winfrey
Rise of Jim Crow, 1877–1895
n Houses nearly 8,000 primary and secondary sources, including overview
The Progressive Era, 1895–1917 essays, slave narratives, speeches, court cases, and quotations
World War I to the Great n E ncourages students to think about African American history as it relates to
Depression, 1917–1939 the present, such as “Are there different perceptions of professional black
athletes as compared to their white counterparts?” and “Are we living in a
World War II and Post-War post-racial society?”
Integration, 1939–1954
n Makes connections to literary classics including To Kill a Mockingbird,
Civil Rights Movement Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, and I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
1954–1965
Most Recent Awards
Black Power Movement
1965–1979 Education Software Review Award (EDDIE) — African American
Studies Website — ComputEd Gazette
Urban Politics and the Shifting Education Software Review Award (EDDiE) — ComputEd Gazette
Landscape, 1979–1991
Dawning of a New Era
1992–2000
New Millennium, 2001–Present
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Andrew Jackson Joe E. Watkins ISBN: 978-1-59884-549-5
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