Your final forum is to prepare a speech that would explain to all of America why African American History from Reconstruction to the present should be taught.
Explain why every American should know African American history. You will be expected to use specific facts, events and people that you have learned from this course.
These facts, events, and people must come from your required work this term and from research in the library or from the course bibliography.
In your speech, demonstrate the breadth of knowledge you have gained from this work. Do not forget to use in text citations because you will be using multiple sources.
This post must be at least 500 words.
use only sources on the attached document.
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Bay, Mia, The White Image in the Black Mind: African-American Ideas about White
People, 1830-1925
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the Black Struggle
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in South Africa and the American South
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Struggle for Freedom
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Black Panther Party: A New Look at the Panthers and Their Legacy
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Roots of Regional Identity
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Johnston Greene
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rev. ed.
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Conference and Martin Luther King, Jr.
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1972, rev. ed.
Feimster, Crystal, Southern Horrors: Women and the Politics of Rape and Lynching
Fergus, Devin, Liberalism, Black Power, and the Making of American Politics, 1965-
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Apus Library
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1970s
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Frazier, E. Franklin, and C. Erick Lincoln, The Negro Church in America; The Black
Church since Frazier
Fredrickson, George, The Black Image in the White Mind: The Debate on AfroAmerican
Character and Destiny, 1817-1914
Freund, David, Colored Property: State Policy and White Racial Politics in Suburban
America Apus Library
Gaines, Kevin, American Africans in Ghana: Black Expatriates and the Civil Rights Era
Gaines, Kevin, Uplifting the Race: Black Leadership, Politics, and Culture in the
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Islam
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Leadership Conference
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1965
Garvey, Amy Jacques, ed., The Philosophy and Opinions of Marcus Garvey: Africa for
the Africans
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Giddings, Paula, When and Where I Enter: The Impact of Black Women on Race and
Sex in America
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Gilmore, Glenda, Gender and Jim Crow: Women and the Politics of White Supremacy in
North Carolina, 1896-1920
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and Immigration Policy in America Apus Library
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Library
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Depression
Greene, Christina, Our Separate Ways: Women and the Black Freedom Movement in
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Gregory, James, The Southern Diaspora: How the Great Migrations of Black and White
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Grossman, James, Land of Hope: Chicago, Black Southerners, and the Great Migration
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of Black Women in America
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Black Women’s History
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Hutchinson, George, Harlem Renaissance in Black and White
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James, Winston, Holding Aloft the Banner of Ethiopia: Caribbean Radicalism in Early
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Jamison, Judith, Dancing Spirit
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Jim Crow South
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Jordan, June, Some of Us Did Not Die: New and Selected Essays
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America
Kachun, Mitch, Festivals of Freedom: Meaning and Memory in African American
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Kurashige, Scott, The Shifting Grounds of Race: Black and Japanese Americans in the
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Marable, Manning, and Leith Mullings, eds., Let Nobody Turn Us Around: An African
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Marqusee, Mike, Redemption Song: Muhammad Ali and the Spirit of the Sixties, 2nd ed.
Martin, Tony, Amy Ashwood Garvey: Pan-Africanist, Feminist and Mrs. Marcus Garvey
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Massey, Douglas, and Nancy Denton, American Apartheid: Segregation and the
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McCall, Nathan, Makes me Wanna Holler: A Young Black Man in America
McDuffie, Erik, Sojourning for Freedom: Black Women, American Communism, and the
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Perry, Jeffrey, Hubert Harrison: The Voice of Harlem Radicalism, 1883-1918
Phillips, Kimberley, AlabamaNorth: African-American Migrants, Community, and
Working –Class Activism in Cleveland, 1915-1945
Phillips, Kimberley, War! What Is It Good For?: Black Freedom Struggles and the U.S.
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Phillips, Michael, White Metropolis: Race, Ethnicity, and Religion in Dallas, 1841-2001
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Pickens, William, Bursting Bonds: The Autobiography of a “New Negro”
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Plummer, Brenda Gayle, Rising Wind: Black Americans and U.S. Foreign Affairs, 1935-
1960
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1940/287us45
Pulley, Brett, The Billion Dollar BET: Robert Johnson and the Inside Story of BET
Rachleff, Peter, Black Labor in Richmond, 1865-1890
Rampersad, Arnold, The Life of Langston Hughes, 2 vols. Apus Library has one
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Ransby, Barbara, Ella Baker and the Black Freedom Movement: A Radical Democratic
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Reed, Adolph, Jr., The Jesse Jackson Phenomenon: The Crisis of Purpose in AfroAmerican
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Reed, Adolph, Jr., W. E. B. Du Bois and American Political Thought: Fabianism and the
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Reed, Christopher, “All the World Is Here!”: The Black Presence at White City
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Rhoden, William, Forty Million Dollar Slaves: The Rise, Fall, and Redemption of the
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Rhodes, Jane, Framing the Black Panthers: The Spectacular Rise of a Black Power Icon
Rhomberg, Chris, No There There: Race, Class, and Political Community in Oakland
Ritterhouse, Jennifer, Growing Up Jim Crow: How Black and White Southern Children
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Roberts, Samuel, Infectious Fear: Politics, Disease, and the Health Effects of
Segregation Apus Library
Robeson, Paul, Here I Stand
Robinson, Dean, Black Nationalism in American Politics and Thought
Robinson, Jo Ann Gibson, The Montgomery Bus Boycott and the Women Who Started
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Rolinson, Mary, Grassroots Garveyism: The Universal Negro Improvement Association
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Robnett, Belinda, How Long! How Long! African-American Women in the Struggle for
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Romano, Renee, Race Mixing: Black-White Marriage in Postwar America Apus
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Rosen, Hannah, Terror in the Heart of Freedom: Citizenship, Sexual Violence, and the
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Rosengarten, Theodore, All God’s Dangers: The Life of Nate Shaw
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Sides, Josh, L.A. City Limits: African American Los Angeles from the Great Depression
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Singh, Nikhil Pal, Black Is a Country: Race and the Unfinished Struggle for Democracy
Sitkoff, Harvard, A New Deal for Blacks: The Emergence of Civil Rights as a National
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Skrentny, John David, The Ironies of Affirmative Action: Politics, Culture, and Justice in
America
Smethurst, James, The African American Roots of Modernism Apus Library
Smethhurst, James Edward, The Black Arts Movement: Literary Nationalism in the
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Solomon, Mark, The Cry Was Unity: Communists and African Americans, 1917-1936
Somerville, Siobhan, Queering the Color Line: Race and the Invention of
Homosexuality in American Culture
Sonenshein, Raphael, Politics in Black and White: Race and Power in Los Angeles
The Southern Manifesto: Declaration of Constitutional Principles @
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Springer, Kimberly, Living for the Revolution: Black Feminist Organizations, 1968-
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Sugrue, Thomas, Sweet Land of Liberty: The Forgotten Struggle for Civil Rights in the
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Sullivan, Patricia, Days of Hope: Race and Democracy in the New Deal Era
Sullivan, Patricia, Lift Every Voice: The NAACP and the Making of the Civil Rights
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Taylor, Quintard, In Search of the Racial Frontier: African Americans in the American
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Taylor, Quintard, From Timbuktu to Katrina: Sources in African-American History,
vol. 2
Taylor, Ula Yvette, The Veiled Garvey: The Life and Times of Amy Jacques Garvey
Theoharis, Jeanne, and Komozi Woodard, eds., Freedom North: Black Freedom
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Thurman, Wallace, The Blacker the Berry
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Trotter, Joe William, Jr., ed., The Great Migration in Historical Perspective: New
Dimensions of Race, Class, and Gender
Ture, Kwame (Stokely Carmichael), and Charles Hamilton, Black Power: The Politics
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Tyson, Timothy, Radio Free Dixie: Robert F. Williams and the Roots of Black Power
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Vogel, Shane, The Scene of Harlem Cabaret: Race, Sexuality, Performance
Von Eschen, Penny, Race against Empire: Black Americans and Anticolonialsim, 1937-
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Von Eschen, Penny, Satchmo Blows Up the World: Jazz Ambassadors Play the Cold
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Wailoo, Keith, Dying in the City of the Blues: Sickle Cell Anemia and the Politics of Race
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Watkins-Owens, Irma, Blood Relations: Caribbean Immigrants and the Harlem
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Wells, Ida B., Crusade for Justice: The Autobiography of Ida B. Wells
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White, Deborah Gray, Telling Histories: Black Women Historians in the Ivory Tower
Apus Library
White, Deborah Gray, Too Heavy a Load: Black Women in Defense of Themselves,
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White, Walter, A Man Called White: The Autobiography of Walter White
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Wideman, John Edgar, Brothers and Keepers: A Memoir
Widener, Daniel, Black Arts West: Culture and Struggle in Postwar Los Angeles
Wiese, Andrew, Places of Their Own: African American Suburbanization in the
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Wilkerson, Isabel, The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America’s Great
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Wilkins, Roy, Standing Fast: The Autobiography of Roy Wilkins
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Williamson, Joel, The Crucible of Race: Black-White Relations in the American South
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Woodard, Komozi, A Nation within a Nation: Amiri Baraka (LeRoi Jones) and Black
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Woodruff, Nan, American Congo: The African American Freedom Struggle in the Delta
Apus Library
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Woolf, Miles, Lunch at the 5 & 10, rev. ed.
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