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The Routledge atlas of African American history

 By Jonathan Halperin Earle

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From the 16th century African slave trade to the 20th century struggle for equality, The Routledge Atlas of African American History examines the geographical and historical context of the African American Experience. Focusing on issues and events that resonate to this day, topics include: slave revolts, black patriots, slave communities, the Civil War, African Americans in the armed services, the spread of Jim Crow, the Negro Baseball League, the Civil Rights Movement, the Voting Rights Act, the Harlem Renaissance, the expansion of the black middle class, and much more. Also inlcludes 50 color maps.

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Carnegie Mellon Libraries: History: African American History
Maps of Chicago's African American community in 1910, 1920, and 1960-1990. Earle, Jonathan Halperin. The Routledge Atlas of African American History. ...
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Places mentioned in this book  Maps  KML

Greensboro, North Carolina - Page 110
On February 1, 1960, four students from North Carolina Agricultural and Technical College in Greensboro launched a radical new phase of the civil ...
more pages: 95 135
Charleston, SC - Page 77
The regiment was assigned the lead position in an assault on Fort Wagner, part of the network of defenses fortifying Charleston, South Carolina. ...
more pages: 12 28 132 133
Montgomery, Alabama - Page 108
Rosa Parks, a seamstress from Montgomery, Alabama, offered blacks there an ideal opportunity to overturn the city's ordinance permitting racial ...
more pages: 95 112
New Orleans - Page 63
Northrup was later sold in New Orleans to a cotton planter from remote Bayou Boeuf near the Red River in Louisiana. ...
more pages: 98 118 122 128
Atlanta - Page 110
those rights which are legally and morally ours to be meted out to us one at a time," read a newspaper ad purchased by college students in Atlanta. ...
more pages: 98 128 130
Tuskegee, Alabama - Page 86
Partially in response to Hastie's agitation, the War Department began training African Americans as aviation pilots in Tuskegee, Alabama. ...
more pages: 128 134
Charleston - Page 25
1n ports like Charleston and Boston, the remaining slaves and Caribbean products were traded for North American commodities like furs and fish. ...
more pages: 27 33 40 74
Philadelphia - Page 62
Henry "Box" Brown was actually shipped from Richmond to Philadelphia in a crate by the Adams Express Company. The harrowing escape of William and ...
more pages: 40 76 106 128
Macon, Georgia - Page 62
The two boldly boarded a train for Savannah near their plantation in Macon, Georgia, and made their way by boat and rail to Philadelphia. ...
New Bedford, Massachusetts - Page 63
the aid of other black abolitionists he settled in New Bedford, Massachusetts, and he changed his name to Frederick Douglass to avoid easy detection. ...
Houston - Page 82
years between the Philippine insurrection and the US entry into World War 1, black mutinies and riots broke out near bases in Brownsville and Houston. ...
more pages: 128
Louisiana, Missouri - Page 64
and farms for places occupied by Union soldiers including southeastern Louisiana, Missouri, Tennessee, Virginia, and the coastal Carolinas. ...
Baltimore - Page 62
He also acquired experience and knowledge denied to most slaves as a "hired slave" in cosmopolitan Baltimore. After two failed escapes, Bailey forged ...
more pages: 27 40 128
Philadelphia, New York - Page 60
and volunteered their homes and meeting houses) and through cities with significant free black populations like Philadelphia, New York, and Boston. ...
Boston - Page 60
and volunteered their homes and meeting houses) and through cities with significant free black populations like Philadelphia, New York, and Boston. ...
more pages: 25 52 63 72
Halifax, Nova Scotia - Page 74
Washington, DC - Page 38
1n a bill signed by Thomas Jefferson in 1802, they were excluded from the polls in the newly designated capital of Washington, DC Free blacks who had ...
more pages: 41 117 124 128
Saratoga Springs, New York - Page 63
Free African American Solomon Northrup of Saratoga Springs, New York, was kidnapped and sold into slavery by two unscrupulous whites in 1841. ...
Kansas City - Page 102
Louis, and Kansas City. The Great Migration remade the racial landscape of the entire nation. Like any mass migration of peoples, ...
more pages: 106
Birmingham, Alabama - Page 110
Civil rights leaders turned to Birmingham, Alabama, in the spring of 1963, calling it the most segregated city in America. ...
more pages: 135
Princeville, North Carolina - Page 128
The first black mayor was elected in 1885 with the incorporation of Princeville, North Carolina, the oldest black incorporated town in the country. ...
Chicago - Page 103
"1 know if you come and rent a big house you can get all the roomers you want," wrote one Chicago migrant to friends in the South. ...
more pages: 116 120 122 126
New York - Page 63
He remained enslaved for 12 years before he met a kind white carpenter who wrote a letter to Northrup's family and friends in New York. ...
more pages: 11 34 36 103 128
Wilmington, Delaware - Page 62
After two failed escapes, Bailey forged the papers of a free black sailor and boarded a steamer for Wilmington, Delaware. ...
Savannah - Page 62
The two boldly boarded a train for Savannah near their plantation in Macon, Georgia, and made their way by boat and rail to Philadelphia. ...
Buffalo, New York - Page 63
Kentucky plantation slave who escaped with his wife and children by walking through 1ndiana and Ohio before boarding a ship for Buffalo, New York, ...
more pages: 78
Nashville - Page 100
Washington's attempts to accommodate white Southerners angered WEB DuBois, who attended Fisk University in Nashville before receiving his doctorate ...
more pages: 68 134
St. Louis - Page 102
African Americans left the rural South for the industrial centers of Chicago, New York, Detroit, Cleveland, Philadelphia, St. Louis, and Kansas City. ...
more pages: 106
Detroit - Page 116
Muhammad moved the organization to Chicago and opened temples in New York, Detroit, and Los Angeles. Like Garvey, Muhammad preached that blacks should ...
more pages: 71 90 123 128
Vicksburg, Mississippi - Page 76
Eight black regiments participated in the assault on Port Hudson in Louisiana, and others bravely defended a Union outpost near Vicksburg called ...
more pages: 46
London - Page 74
Shiloh, Louisiana - Page 125
Louisville - Page 63
keeps It very nicely combed; has been raised in the house, aiid is a first rate dining-room servant, and was in a tavern in Louisville for IN months. ...
Cincinnati - Page 60
And Levi Coffin, the reputed "president" of the Underground Railroad, reported receiving up to 100 slaves a year at his house in Cincinnati during its ...
Santo Domingo - Page 23
After Caribbean islands like Santo Domingo and Cuba, Brazil was the most likely destination. Between 1619 and 1808, when Congress abolished the slave ...
Rome - Page 18
Slavery played a prominent part in ancient civilizations like Egypt, Greece, and Rome, where slaves were either captured or purchased to perform ...
Cleveland, New York - Page 128
Such cities as Chicago, Cleveland, New York, Detroit, and Philadelphia experienced explosions in black residents. ...
Cleveland - Page 107
Cleveland 1ndians had hired Larry Doby and the 42-year-old "rookie" Satchel Paige. 1t took another ten years before all major league teams had at ...
more pages: 41
Wilmington, North Carolina - Page 98
Lynchings killed hundreds of blacks per year, and race riots ravaged cities like Atlanta and Wilmington, North Carolina. ...
Los Angeles - Page 116
Muhammad moved the organization to Chicago and opened temples in New York, Detroit, and Los Angeles. Like Garvey, Muhammad preached that blacks should ...
more pages: 130
Pittsburgh - Page 40
The church even made inroads as far west as Pittsburgh and as far south as Charleston, before the Denmark Vesey slave conspiracy halted the growth of ...
Kansas, Oklahoma - Page 12
and murder, the first significant wave of African American migrants left the South to found all-black towns in Kansas, Oklahoma, and California. ...
Columbus, Georgia - Page 125
Berlin - Page 120
More than Paris or the Shakespeare country, or Berlin, or the Alps, 1 wanted to see . . . the greatest Negro city in the world. ...
more pages: 114 134
Algiers - Page 16
During the medieval period, the empires of Morocco (controlled by Muslim people called Almoravids), Algiers (controlled by the Almohads), ...
Chattanooga, Tennessee - Page 125
Albany, Georgia - Page 125
Pasadena, California - Page 128
But in 1999, there were black mayors in cities and towns as varied as Houston, Texas (Lee Brown); San Francisco (Willie Brown); Pasadena, California ...
Trenton, New Jersey - Page 128
California (Chris Adams); Trenton, New Jersey (Douglas Bradley); Detroit, Michigan (Dennis Archer), and Minneapolis, Minnesota (Sharon Campbell).
Minneapolis, Minnesota - Page 128
California (Chris Adams); Trenton, New Jersey (Douglas Bradley); Detroit, Michigan (Dennis Archer), and Minneapolis, Minnesota (Sharon Campbell).
Paris - Page 120
More than Paris or the Shakespeare country, or Berlin, or the Alps, 1 wanted to see . . . the greatest Negro city in the world. ...
Memphis - Page 135
1968 Martin Luther King assassinated in Memphis. 1972 New York Congresswoman Shirley Chisholm runs for the Democratic presidential nomination. ...
more pages: 130
Little Rock, Arkansas - Page 135
1957 President Eisenhower sends troops to enforce school desegregation in Little Rock, Arkansas. Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) ...
Lisbon - Page 25
Traders concluded the rectangle when they unloaded their merchandise back in Lisbon or Liverpool. NORTH AMER1CA Qu6bec McmirtMl, ? Boston/ Vw Vnrk, ...
San Francisco - Page 56
for a railroad to connect San Francisco to the east, many Americans favored organizing a territory north of 1ndian Territory, present-day Oklahoma. ...
Liverpool - Page 25
Traders concluded the rectangle when they unloaded their merchandise back in Lisbon or Liverpool. NORTH AMER1CA Qu6bec McmirtMl, ? Boston/ Vw Vnrk, ...
Princeton, New Jersey - Page 125
Freetown - Page 74
Cairo - Page 114
in Central Africa was "awarded" to King Leopold of Belgium, while England received a huge swath of East Africa stretching from Cairo to Cape Town. ...
more pages: 16
Cape Town - Page 114
in Central Africa was "awarded" to King Leopold of Belgium, while England received a huge swath of East Africa stretching from Cairo to Cape Town. ...
Zanzibar - Page 16
City-states and smaller nations dotted the east coast of Africa, including Somalia, Tanganyika, Katanga, and Zanzibar. ...
Cape Coast - Page 20
Ri^ht: Locared on the Gold Coast of West Africa, Cape Coast 1 '.astle was one of the leading slai'e-trading forts hettceen the 16th and Wth centuries. ...

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