African American Journey
Edition: 1
Copyright: 2019
Pages: 43
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African American Journey is a concise history of African Americans. It tells a story of perseverance and triumph in the face of enormous obstacles and challenges. Readers will learn about key figures and events that help shape the United States and the world.
Introduction
Chapter 1: Pre-colonial Africa
West Africa
Ghana
Mali
Songhai
Chapter 2: Maafa
The Perspective of the Enslaved
The End of the Slave Trade
Economics
Resistance
Slavery in other locations
Chapter 3: Early US Slavery
Seasoning
The North
Kansas-Nebraska Act
Dred Scott
Lincoln and the Republicans
Chapter 4: The Civil War
Black Participation in the War
The End of US Slavery and the Beginning of Reconstruction
The Freedmen’s Bureau
The Hayes-Tilden Compromise of 1877
The End of Reconstruction
Stereotyping and the Legal System
Chapter 5: The Beginnings of Segregation
Lynching and the Response
Chapter 6: The Turn of the Century
Booker T. Washington
Buffalo Soldiers
WEB Du Bois
Black Women’s Clubs
Chapter 7: WWI and internationalism
The Resurgence of the KKK
Marcus Garvey and Other International Figures
Chapter 8: Civil Rights Movement
Killing Jim Crow
Emmett Till
Little Rock 9
SNCC
The March on Washington and the Civil Rights Act of 1964
Selma
Self-Defense
1968
Chapter 9: Black Power
The Black Panther Party
Chapter 10: The Reagan Era
Dr. Jason Nichols is an award winning full-time lecturer in the African American Studies Department at the University of Maryland College Park and was the longtime editor-in-chief of Words Beats & Life: The Global Journal of Hip-Hop Culture, the first peer-reviewed journal of Hip-hop Studies. He co-edited La Verdad: An International Dialogue on Hip-Hop Latinidades (Ohio State University Press). Jason Nichols has been recognized by the University of Maryland community for his tireless effort to help students develop. In 2018, the Office of Multicultural Student Education gave Dr. Nichols the Academic Excellence Award for Outstanding Faculty and the Student Success Leadership Council awarded him the M. Lucia James Impact Award. In 2015, Dr. Nichols was given the Faculty Advisor of the Year Award by the UMCP NAACP.
Dr. Nichols is also a progressive political and social analyst whose work has been featured in publications such as The Guardian, Al Jazeera, Foxnews.com, NBCNews.com, The Hill, MIC.com, Independent Journal Review, The Baltimore Afro, Bustle, The Daily Caller, The Baltimore Sun and more. He makes regular appearances on Fox News Channel, Al Jazeera English, MSNBC, Sky News, OANN, CheddarTV, i24News and TRT World News along with many other TV and radio outlets. Dr. Nichols currently cohosts "The Fifth Element" talk radio show on WPFW 89.3fm in Washington, DC and The Other Underground Railroad with Dr. Jason Nichols podcast.