Term Paper Resource Guide to African American History
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Term Paper Resource Guide to African American History

  1. 320 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
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Term Paper Resource Guide to African American History

About this book

Major help for African American history term papers has arrived to enrich and stimulate students in challenging and enjoyable ways. Students from high school age to undergraduate will be able to get a jump start on assignments with the hundreds of term paper projects and research information offered here in an easy-to-use format. Users can quickly choose from the 100 important events, spanning from the expansion of the slave trade to North America in 1581 to the devastation of Hurricane Katrina in 2005. Each event entry begins with a brief summary to pique interest and then offers original and thought-provoking term paper ideas in both standard and alternative formats that often incorporate the latest in electronic media, such as iPod and iMovie. The best in primary and secondary sources for further research are then annotated, followed by vetted, stable Web site suggestions and multimedia resources, usually films, for further viewing and listening. Librarians and faculty will want to use this as well. With this book, the research experience is transformed and elevated. Term Paper Resource Guide to African American History is an invaluable source to motivate and educate students who have a wide range of interests and talents. The events chronicle the long struggle for freedom and equal rights for African Americans.

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Information

Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing
Year
2009
eBook ISBN
9780313355028
Edition
0
Subtopic
Teaching History

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Contents
  3. Acknowledgments
  4. Introduction
  5. 1. Atlantic Slave Trade Expands to North America (1581)
  6. 2. Slavery Is Introduced to Virginia (1619)
  7. 3. Slave Codes Are Established (1660s)
  8. 4. Bacon’s Rebellion (1675)
  9. 5. The Great Awakening (1720s–1760s)
  10. 6. Stono Rebellion (1739)
  11. 7. New York Conspiracy Trials (1741)
  12. 8. George Washington Bans Black Men from Revolutionary Forces (1775)
  13. 9. Lord Dunmore Offers Freedom to Blacks Who Join the British (1775)
  14. 10. Declaration of Independence (1776)
  15. 11. Northwest Ordinance Bars Slavery from Western Territories (1787)
  16. 12. 3/5 Compromise Is Added to the Constitution (1787)
  17. 13. Cotton Gin Is Invented (1793)
  18. 14. Gabriel’s Rebellion (1800)
  19. 15. New Jersey Becomes the Last Northern State to Abolish Slavery (1804)
  20. 16. Congress Ends U.S. Participation in the Atlantic Slave Trade (1808)
  21. 17. Richard Allen Establishes the African Methodist Church (1816)
  22. 18. American Colonization Society Establishes Liberia (1816)
  23. 19. Denmark Vesey’s Rebellion (1822)
  24. 20. Nat Turner’s Rebellion (1831)
  25. 21. American Anti-Slavery Society Is Founded (1833)
  26. 22. Amistad Mutiny (1839)
  27. 23. Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, Written by Himself Is Published (1845)
  28. 24. Sojourner Truth Gives ‘‘Ain’t I a Woman?’’ Speech (1850)
  29. 25. Compromise of 1850
  30. 26. Underground Railroad Increases Its Efforts to Aid Runaway Slaves (1850)
  31. 27. Harriet Beecher Stowe’s Uncle Tom’s Cabin Is Published (1851)
  32. 28. Kansas-Nebraska Act Establishes Popular Sovereignty (1854)
  33. 29. Senator Charles Sumner Is Attacked in the Senate (1856)
  34. 30. George Fitzhugh of Virginia Argues the Benefits of Slavery (1857)
  35. 31. Dred Scott Decision (1857)
  36. 32. John Brown’s Attack on Harper’s Ferry (1859)
  37. 33. Abraham Lincoln Issues the Emancipation Proclamation (1862)
  38. 34. Blacks Enlist in the 54th Massachusetts Regiment (1863)
  39. 35. Congress and President Lincoln Devise Rival Forms of Reconstruction (1864)
  40. 36. Sharecropping Is Established (1865)
  41. 37. Thirteenth Amendment Is Ratified (1865)
  42. 38. Freedmen’s Bureau Is Created (1865)
  43. 39. Black Codes Are Passed (1865–1866)
  44. 40. Ku Klux Klan Is Formed (1866)
  45. 41. Fourteenth Amendment Is Ratified (1868)
  46. 42. Fifteenth Amendment Is Ratified (1870)
  47. 43. First Black Men Elected to the U.S. Congress (1870)
  48. 44. Compromise of 1877
  49. 45. Kansas Exodus Joint Stock Company Sends Emigrants West (1879)
  50. 46. Tuskegee Institute Is Founded (1881)
  51. 47. Colored Farmers’ Alliance Representatives Help Found the Populist Party (1892)
  52. 48. Ida B. Wells Denounces Lynching (1892)
  53. 49. Booker T. Washington Delivers Atlanta Compromise Speech (1895)
  54. 50. Plessy v. Ferguson (1896)
  55. 51. Buffalo Soldiers Serve in the American West and Spanish American War (1890s)
  56. 52. Scott Joplin’s ‘‘Maple Leaf Rag’’ Establishes Ragtime as an American Musical Form (1899)
  57. 53. W. E. B. Du Bois Publishes The Souls of Black Folk (1903)
  58. 54. Jack Johnson Becomes the First Black Heavyweight Boxing Champion (1908)
  59. 55. Formation of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) (1909)
  60. 56. Charles Davenport Publishes Eugenics: The Science of Human Improvement by Better Breeding (1910)
  61. 57. Universal Negro Improvement Association (UNIA) Founded (1914)
  62. 58. The Birth of a Nation Rejuvenates the Ku Klux Klan (1915)
  63. 59. The Great Migration (1915–1920)
  64. 60. Race Riots (1919–1921)
  65. 61. Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters (BSCP) Is Founded (1925)
  66. 62. Harlem Renaissance (1920s)
  67. 63. Elijah Muhammad Joins the Nation of Islam (1931)
  68. 64. The Scottsboro Boys Case (1931)
  69. 65. Mississippi Health Project Begins (1934)
  70. 66. Boxer Joe Louis Defeats Primo Carnera (1935)
  71. 67. Mary McLeod Bethune Joins the New Deal (1936)
  72. 68. March on Washington’s Double V Campaign (1941)
  73. 69. Tuskegee Airmen Silence Skeptics with Victories in Italy (1944)
  74. 70. Morgan v. Virginia Rules That Segregation on Interstate Buses Is Illegal (1946)
  75. 71. President Harry S. Truman Desegregates the U.S. Military (1948)
  76. 72. Jackie Robinson Breaks the Color Bar in Baseball (1947)
  77. 73. Brown v. Board of Education (1954)
  78. 74. Lynching of Emmett Till (1955)
  79. 75. Rosa Parks Is Arrested (1955)
  80. 76. Crisis at Little Rock (1957)
  81. 77. North Carolina A&T Students Initiate a Sit-In Protest (1960)
  82. 78. Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) Is Formed (1960)
  83. 79. Martin Luther King’s ‘‘I Have a Dream’’ Speech (1963)
  84. 80. Birmingham Church Bombing (1963)
  85. 81. Civil Rights Act (1964)
  86. 82. Economic Opportunity Act (1964)
  87. 83. The Moynihan Report (1965)
  88. 84. Voting Rights Act (1965)
  89. 85. Watts Riot in Los Angeles (1965)
  90. 86. Black Panther Party Is Founded (1966)
  91. 87. Blacks Serve in the Military during the Vietnam War (1960s)
  92. 88. Loving v. Virginia (1967)
  93. 89. Martin Luther King Jr. Is Assassinated (1968)
  94. 90. Kerner Report Is Issued (1968)
  95. 91. President Richard Nixon Promotes a Southern Strategy (1968)
  96. 92. Roots Is Televised (1977)
  97. 93. Michele Wallace Publishes Black Macho and the Myth of the Superwoman (1978)
  98. 94. Bakke Case (1978)
  99. 95. Black Miami Residents Riot over Police Brutality (1980)
  100. 96. Jesse Jackson Runs for President (1984)
  101. 97. Clarence Thomas Is Appointed to the U.S. Supreme Court (1991)
  102. 98. Jury Acquits Los Angeles Police Officers in the Beating of Rodney King and Rioting Ensues (1992)
  103. 99. Welfare Reform Act (1996)
  104. 100. Hurricane Katrina Devastates New Orleans (2005)
  105. Index