The Struggle for Freedom: A History of African Americans Concise Edition Combined Volume (Penguin Academic Series) (2nd Edition)

About this book

The Struggle for Freedom a narrative of the black experience in America uses a distinctive biographical approach to guide the story and animate the history. In each chapter individual African Americans are the pivot points on which historical changes of the era turn. Life stories capture the rush of events that envelop individuals and illuminate the momentous decisions that collectively frame the American past and present. Inasmuch as that history is grounded in strugglein the consistent and insistent call to the United States to deliver on the constitutional promises made to all its citizens.