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Freedom on My Mind (High School)

Third  Edition©2022  Deborah Gray White; Mia Bay; Waldo E. Martin Jr.

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Table of Contents

1. African Origins, Beginnings to ca. 1600 C.E.
2. From Africa to America, 1441-1808  
3. Slavery in North America, 1619–1740 
4. African Americans in the Age of Revolution, 1741–1783
5. Slavery and Freedom in the New Republic, 1775–1820 
6. Black Life in the Slave South, 1820–1860  
7. The Northern Black Freedom Struggle and the Coming of the Civil War, 1830–1860  
8. Freedom Rising: The Civil War, 1861–1865  
9. Reconstruction: The Making and Unmaking of a Revolution, 1865–1877
10. Black Life and Culture during the Nadir, 1880–1915 
11. The New Negro Comes of Age, 1915–1930 
12. Catastrophe, Recovery, and Renewal, 1930–1942  
13. Fighting for a Double Victory in the World War　II Era, 1939–1950  
14. The Early Civil Rights Movement, 1945–1963 
15. Multiple Meanings of Freedom: The Movement Broadens, 1961–1976  
16. Racial Progress in an Era of Backlash and Change, 1967–2000  
17. African Americans in the 21st Century

Deborah Gray White

Deborah Gray White (Ph.D., University of Illinois at Chicago) is Board of Governors Distinguished Professor of History at Rutgers University. She is the author of many works including Lost in the USA: American Identity from the Promise Keepers to the Million Mom March; Too Heavy a Load: Black Women in Defense of Themselves, 1894–1994; Ar’n’t I a Woman? Female Slaves in the Plantation South; and the edited volume Telling Histories: Black Women Historians in the Ivory Tower. She is a recipient of the John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship and the Woodrow Wilson International Center Fellowship. She holds the Carter G. Woodson Medallion and the Frederick Douglass Medal for excellence in African American history. She currently co-directs the “Scarlet and Black Project” which investigates Native Americans and African Americans in the history of Rutgers University. With Professor Marisa Fuentes she is editor of Scarlet and Black: Slavery and Dispossession in Rutgers History, and with Fuentes and Professor Kendra Boyd, Scarlet and Black: Constructing Race and Gender at Rutgers, 1865-1945.

Mia Bay

Mia Bay (Ph.D., Yale University) is the Roy F. and Jeanette P. Nichols Professor of American History at the University of Pennsylvania. Her publications include To Tell the Truth Freely: The Life of Ida B. Wells; The White Image in the Black Mind: African-American Ideas about White People, 1830–1925; and the edited volume Ida B. Wells, The Light of Truth: The Writings of an Anti-Lynching Crusader. She is a recipient of the Alphonse Fletcher Sr. Fellowship and the National Humanities Center Fellowship. An Organization of American Historians Distinguished Lecturer, Bay is a member of the executive board of the Society of American Historians and serves on the editorial boards of the Journal of African American History and the African American Intellectual History Society’s Black Perspectives Blog. Currently, she is at work on a book examining the social history of segregated transportation and a study of African American views on Thomas Jefferson.

Waldo E. Martin, Jr.

Waldo E. Martin Jr. (Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley) is the Alexander F. and May T. Morrison Professor of American History and Citizenship at the University of California, Berkeley. He is the author of No Coward Soldiers: Black Cultural Politics in Postwar America; Brown v. Board of Education: A Brief History with Documents; The Mind of Frederick Douglass; and, with Joshua Bloom, the coauthor of Black against Empire: The History and Politics of the Black Panther Party. With Patricia A. Sullivan, he serves as coeditor of the John Hope Franklin Series in African American History and Culture. Current projects include a forthcoming book on the impact of black cultural politics on the modern black freedom struggle.