THE NEGRO, TOO, IN AMERICAN HISTORY
Book Details + Condition: National Publication Company (Nashville, TN). First Edition, 1943. Hardcover with brown cloth boards. 571 pages with Index. Author Merle R. Eppse aims to provide a more comprehensive understanding of the Black experience in America, emphasizing their critical role in shaping the nation's history, in spite of the tremendous challenges they faced. Chapters and topics include:
- The People of Africa
- Slave Life During the Exploration and Colonization Period
- The Negro During the Revolutionary War (1733 - 1783)
- The Negro During the Critical Period (1783 - 1789)
- The Negro from Washington to Lincoln (1789 - 1860)
- The Civil War and Reconstruction (1860 - 1880)
- The Negro During the Industrial Expansion (1880 - 1914)
- The "New" Negro from 1918 to the Present
- Contributions of the Negro to American Culture
Firm binding; rubbed corners and edges; wear to boards; call number to lower spine; small number to ffep and old library insert to rear inside board; very old tape to edge of title page; interior underlining in pen to pp 79-82 and 103-106, and more minor scattered underling, in a few more pages.
