Timelines of African-American History [Paperback]

T. Cowan (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: September 1, 1994

An authoritative resource documents in a year-by-year chronology the complex history of African-Americans, beginning with the first African explorers of the fifteenth century and moving through the years of slavery and the building of the civil rights movement to today.

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YA?Achievements of African Americans from 1492-1993 are arranged in chronological order and then categorized within each year. Sports, the military, literature and journalism, politics and civil rights, and performing and visual arts are the areas covered, with entries ranging in length from one to four lines. No biographical data is given. Famous events and little-known facts are included as well as people, e.g., in 1885 "there are 74 recorded lynchings." The index is thorough and is a must for finding specific entries. This is a great trivia book and a wonderful resource to glean names and facts for research ideas. A visually pleasing and easy-to-read volume.?Pat Royal, Crossland High School, Camp Springs, MD
Copyright 1995 Reed Business Information, Inc.

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Timelines adds to the growing list of chronologies for groups often viewed as being outside the mainstream of American history. Its purpose is to indicate major events in African American history by year and broad subject category, e.g., politics and civil rights, religion and education, sports, etc., and to trace these themes over time and within a given year. In doing so, itlimits its 1500 entries to only a sentence or two, with rare mention of specific dates. Timelines draws heavily from Peter M. Bergman's Chronological History of the Negro in America (LJ 1/15/70), updating it with politically correct terms, but it lacks that chronology's detail and quotations from original documents. Coverage of the last few decades overlaps with and provides more reported events than Alton Hornsby's Chronology of African-American History (LJ 10/1/91) but again with less detail. The overall format is well organized, and events are easily located, but readers should turn elsewhere to understand their context and significance.
Stanley P. Hodge, Ball State Univ. Lib., Muncie, Ind.
Copyright 1994 Reed Business Information, Inc.

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Product Details

• Paperback: 368 pages
• Publisher: Perigee Trade; 1 edition (September 1, 1994)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0399521275
• ISBN-13: 978-0399521270
• Product Dimensions: 9.1 x 7.4 x 1.2 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.5 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,023,350 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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5.0 out of 5 stars Great Resource for Black History, April 16, 2000

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Jones "itimbuktu" (Columbia, MD United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Timelines of African-American History (Paperback)

This book is wonderful. As a freelance writer on African American culture, I find myself constantly referring to this text. The format is concise, easy to understand, and packed with little-known information on the history of African Americans. This book would be especially great for teachers and educators.

5.0 out of 5 stars Good and concise but in need of a major update, April 7, 2005

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Reginald D. Garrard "the G-man" (Camilla, GA USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Timelines of African-American History (Paperback)

Although it's a very good "Cliff Notes" version of African-American history, it is still twelve years old; thus, it is in major need of a revision, considering all the monumental changes that have occured in America, let alone the world, since the book's original publication.