African American migration and urbanization / Arvarh E. Strickland and Robert E. Weems, Jr. -- The African American worker in slavery and freedom / Joe William Trotter, Jr. -- African American families: historically resilient / Aaron Thompson -- African American women / Wilma King -- The African American educational experience / Carolyn a. Dorsey -- The African American literary tradition / Clenora Hudson-Weems -- The African American musical experience: there's a story in the song / John A. Taylor -- African American intellectual and political thought / Robert L. Harris, Jr. -- The African American political experience / Sharon D. Wright and Minion K.C. Morrison -- The African American press / Julius E. Thompson -- African Americans in the military of the United States / John F. Marszalek and Horace D. Nash -- The African American athletic experience / David K. Wiggins -- Constructing an historiography of African American business / Juliet E.K. Walker -- Sexuality and race / Stanley O. Gaines, Jr. -- African American consumerism / Robert E. Weems, Jr. -- The civil rights movement / John Dittmer -- African American religion in the United States / Charles H. Long.