Chronologies of American History and Experience Book

	Chronology	1
	The Colonial Period and the Revolutionary War	67
	The First Africans to Arrive in the New World	70
	Free African Americans in the United States	89
	African American Soldiers in the Colonial Period	99
	The Debate over Slavery in the United States	108
	The Civil War	151
	The Final Century of Slavery in the United States	153
	African Americans and the Civil War	169
	Reconstruction	191
	Reconstruction and the Rise of Jim Crow	192
	African Americans in Political Office	203
	African Americans on the Frontier	213
	African American Newspapers and Periodicals	228
	The Long Journey Toward Integration	245
	African Americans and the Law	246
	The Education of African Americans	274
	The Ongoing Effort for Inclusion in the Military	294
	African Americans in the Modern Era	313
	Migration, Industrialization, and the City	315
	The History of African American Music	322
	African American Folklore and Folkways	333
	The African American Literary Experience	336
	The African American Family	353
	The African American Religious Experience	368
	African Americans Coming to the Fore of American Identity	397
	The Civil Rights Struggle: From Nonviolence to Black Power	398
	The African American Intellectual Experience	403
	African Americans in the Sciences	419
	African American Labor History	426
	The Art of African Americans	433
	The Close of the Twentieth Century and Beyond	442
	List of Contributors	451
	Index	453
	Primary Source Document Index	473