Lose Not Courage Lose Not Faith Go Forward: Selected Topics From The African American Experience From 1900-2000 Book

	Acknowledgments	xi
	Introduction	xiii
Chapter 1	The Nadir of Black Life in America	1
	The Problem of Lynching	4
	Ida B. Well-Barnett	6
	A New Hope for Education	9
	Booker T. Washington	10
	William Edward Burghardt Du Bois	12
	The Niagara Movement	14
	The NAACP Is Created	16
	Du Bois and The Crisis	16
	Meta Warrick Fuller	17
	Matthew Henson	18
	Jack Johnson	19
	Madame C. J. Walker	21
	Bessie Coleman	22
	Charles W. Chesnutt	23
	Carter G. Woodson	25
	Race Riots Sweep America	26
	The "Black Wall Street" Race Riot	29
	Rosewood	30
	The Migration Begins	33
	Marcus Garvey	34
	The Birth of a Nation and the Resurgence of the Klan	37
	World War I	39
Chapter 2	Rebirth	45
	The Harlem Renaissance	45
	Origins	45
	Why Harlem?	46
	The Writers	48
	Alain LeRoy Locke	48
	Countee Porter Cullen	48
	Jessie Redmon Fauset	49
	Langston James Mercer Hughes	50
	Zora Neale Hurston	51
	Claude McKay	53
	Jean Toomer	54
	James Weldon Johnson	55
	Nella Larsen	57
	The Artists	58
	Duke Ellington	58
	Louis Armstrong	59
	Bessie Smith	60
	Gertrude Pridgett "Ma" Rainey	61
	James Hubert "Eubie" Blake	62
	Josephine Baker	62
	Florence Mills	63
	Paul Robeson	64
	Bill "Bojangles" Robinson	66
	Aaron Douglas	68
	James VanDerZee	69
	Harlem Night Life	70
	The End of an Era	72
Chapter 3	Turmoil and Transition	75
	The Scottsboro Boys	76
	Robert Johnson	78
	The Negro Leagues	80
	"Cool Papa" Bell	82
	Leroy Robert "Satchel" Paige	82
	Josh Gibson	83
	Joe Louis	84
	Jessie Owens	87
	Walter Francis White	89
	Asa Philip Randolph	91
	Marian Anderson	93
	The Black New Deal	95
	Mary McLeod Bethune	97
	The Black Cabinet	100
	Richard Wright	101
	African Americans in Film: 1903-1950	103
	Bert Williams	103
	Oscar Micheaux	105
	Our Gang	107
	Stepin Fetchit	109
	Hattie McDaniel	110
	Fredi Washington	113
	Lena Horne	115
	The Tuskegee Syphilis Experiment	117
	Dr. Charles Drew	119
	World War II	122
	The Tuskegee Airmen	124
	The Port Chicago Mutiny	126
	The War Effort at Home	128
	Heroes	129
	African American Women in Service	131
	Billie Holiday	132
	Dorothy Dandridge	133
	Jackie Robinson	138
Chapter 4	"Our Time Has Come"	143
	Thurgood Marshall	146
	The Road To Brown	148
	Brown v. Board of Education, Topeka	148
	Briggs v. Clarendon County	149
	Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka	149
	Davis v. County School Board of Prince Edward County	150
	Bolling v. Sharpe	150
	Gebhart v. Belton	150
	Rev. George W. Lee	151
	Lamar Smith	151
	Emmett Till	151
	Montgomery Bus Boycott	152
	The Little Rock Nine	153
	The Sit-in Movements	154
	The Freedom Rides	155
	The Albany Movement	157
	James Meredith and the University of Mississippi	157
	The Birmingham Campaign	157
	Integration of the University of Alabama	158
	Civil Rights Bill of 1963	159
	Assassination of Medgar Evers	159
	The Freedom March	159
	March on Washington, August 28, 1963	159
	The Bombing of the Sixteenth Street Baptist Church	160
	Mississippi Freedom Summer, 1964	160
	Fannie Lou Hamer	161
	Selma and Securing the Right to Vote	163
	Malcolm X	167
	Long Hot Summers	170
	Martin Luther King, Jr.	172
	Black Power	174
	Black Panthers	176
	Angela Yvonne Davis	178
	Affirmative Action	178
Chapter 5	The Creative Impulse	181
	African American Art Surges Forward	181
	Romare Bearden	181
	Jacob Lawrence	183
	A Rapid Evolution in Black Music	183
	The Golden Age Of Gospel	183
	Mahalia Jackson	184
	The Birth of Modern Jazz	186
	Charlie "Bird" Parker	186
	John Coltrane	188
	Miles Davis	189
	Rhythm and Blues	191
	Doo-Wop	192
	Rock and Roll	193
	Little Richard	194
	Chuck Berry	195
	Bo Diddley	196
	Fats Domino	197
	Soul	198
	James Brown	199
	Aretha Franklin	201
	Motown	202
	Marvin Gaye	204
	Michael Jackson	206
	Black Rock	206
	Funk	211
	George Clinton	212
	Rap and Hip-Hop	214
	Blaxploitation and Beyond	217
	Black Writers Move Forward	221
	Toni Morrison	223
Chapter 6	Aftermath and Achievement: The Post-Civil Rights Years	225
	The Rise of Black Elected Officials and Political Advancement	225
	Adam Clayton Powell, Jr.	226
	Shirley Chisholm	226
	Barbara Jordan	227
	Andrew Young	228
	Clarence Thomas	229
	Jesse Louis Jackson	230
	Colin Powell	232
	A Legacy in Sports	233
	Henry Aaron	235
	Michael Jordan	238
	Muhammad Ali	239
	Wilma Rudolph	244
	Marion Jones	245
	Tiger Woods	248
	Black Comedians Take Center Stage	249
	Comedic Roles in Television	253
	Louis Farrakhan and The Million Man March	256
	African Americans in Space	258
	Black Victims of Racial Violence and Intimidation at the Turn of the Twentieth Century	261
	The First "Black" President?	264
	The End of Race	266
	Suggested Reading	269
	Discussion Questions and Topics	275
	Index	285