History for busy people. Black History, or African-American History, looks at the story and culture of black Americans from the seventeenth century to the present day.

Encompassing everything from immigration to civil war, emancipation, slavery and migration, Black History in an Hour gives you a neat overview of this vast and fascinating subject.

This book is a superb introduction to the powerful varied history of African Americans. The study of Black History in the West has to be seen primarily in the context of American history. It was in the USA, where all men are created equal, that slavery and the fight for civil rights had its most profound effect.

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Contents:

• Slavery: the “peculiar institution” 
• The Black Slave: three-fifths the man
• North and South: “If slavery is not wrong, nothing is wrong” 
• War and emancipation: “Previous condition of servitude”
• The Jim Crow Era: “Separate but equal”
• War, Migration and depression: “Black is beautiful”
• War and Windrush: “To secure these rights”
• The Civil Rights movement 1: “Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere”
• The Civil Rights Movement 2: “Burn, burn, burn”
• Black Power: “We gonna stop them white men from whuppin’ us” 
• Britain and South Africa: “Rivers of blood”
• Forty years later: “Because of the color of her skin”