The Color Line : A Short Introduction (Hardcover)

1. The Color Line. 2. Pre-contact North America and European Colonization 3. Early Virginia 4. A Slave System is Established 5. Beyond Virginia 6. The Founding 7. King Cotton 8. More Land and Labor 9. Sectional Conflicts and the Color Line 10. Civil War and Reconstruction 11. Redemption and Jim Crow 12. Western Indians 13. Closing the Door 14. An American Empire 15. The Great Migration 16. Surviving and Defying Jim Crow 17. The Second Reconstruction 18. The Civil Rights Movement 19. Black Separatism, Armed Self-Defense and Urban Disorders 20. The Wider Civil Rights Movement 21. End of the Second Reconstruction 22. The Persistence of the Color Line 23. Where Do We Go From Here?and How Do We Get There?