Introduction: the long rugged road / William R. Scott and William G. Shade -- Africa, the slave trade, and the diaspora / Joseph C. Miller -- Creating a biracial society, 1619-1720 / Jean R. Soderlund -- Africans in eighteenth-century North America / Peter H. Wood -- In search of freedom: slave life in the antebellum south / Norrece T. Jones -- "Though we are not slaves, we are not free:" quasi-free blacks in antebellum America / William G. Shade -- Full of faith, full of hope: the African-American experience from emancipation to segragation / Armstead L. Robinson
Blacks in the economy from Reconstruction to World War I / Gerald D. Jaynes -- In search of the promised land: black migration and urbanization, 1900-1940 / Carole C. Marks -- From Booker T. to Malcolm X: black political thought, 1895-1965 / Wilson J. Moses -- Rights, power, and equality: the modern civil rights movement / Edward P. Morgan -- Sounds of blackness: African-American music / Waldo F. Martin -- Black voices: themes in African-American literature / Gerald Early -- Black religious traditions: sacred and secular themes / Gayraud S. Wilmore
African-American family life in societal context: crisis and hope / Walter R. Allen -- From black bourgeoisie to African-American middle class, 1957 to the present / Robert Gregg -- New underclass: concentrated black poverty in the postindustrial city / John F. Bauman -- Black feminism in the United States / Beverly Guy-Sheftall -- African Americans and education since the Brown decisions: a contextual view / Stephen N. Butler -- After the movement: African Americans and civil rights since 1970 / Donald G. Nieman
Quest for black equity: African-American politics since the Voting Rights Act of 1965 / Lawrence J. Hanks -- Black internationalism: African Americans and foreign policy activism / William R. Scott -- Afterword: the future of African Americans / Charles V. Hamilton
