Front Cover -- Title Page -- Half Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Timeline -- Foreword -- Upon America's Shores: Beginning the Black Experience -- Our Cultural Strivings -- Business and Economic Development -- Organized for Progress -- A Political Agenda -- Amen, Brother! -- Science and Scientific Creativity -- A Sports Agenda -- Arts and Entertainment -- Architecture -- Performing Arts -- Musicals -- Black Dance -- Theater -- A Cultural Revolution -- Radio Shows -- Television -- Film -- Museums -- Visual Arts -- Cartoonists -- Circus -- Festivals -- Business and Commerce -- Early Development -- Black-owned Businesses -- Advertising -- Automobile Industry -- Banking -- Consumer Cooperatives -- Corporate America -- Economic Boycotts and Protests -- Food and Food Service Industries -- Insurance Companies -- Labor Unions -- Manufacturing -- Publishing -- Women Entrepreneurs -- Real Estate -- Retail -- Stock Exchange -- Transportation -- Civil Rights and Protests -- Slavery and Anti-Slavery -- Slave Revolts -- Emancipation -- The Civil Rights Movement -- Race Riots -- African-American Protests of the Post-Civil Rights Movement -- The Post-Civil-Rights Era -- Education -- Education during Slavery -- College Foundings -- Historically Black Colleges and Universities -- College Integration -- Law Schools -- Other Schools -- School Desegregation -- Funding Higher Education -- College Curricula -- Mainstream Academic Institutions -- Leadership Training -- Journalism -- African-American Press -- Newspapers -- Women and the Early Press -- Press Correspondents and Journalists -- Periodicals -- Photojournalism -- Television Newscasters -- Literature -- Early African-American Poets -- Early Black American Prose -- Slave Narratives -- Literature of the Harlem Renaissance Era -- Poets and Poetry -- Science Fiction -- Literature of the Civil Rights Movement.

The Black Aesthetic -- The Black Arts Movement -- Variety in African-American Writing -- Award-winning Writers -- African-American Literature in American Culture -- Military -- From the American Revolution to the Spanish-American War -- The Military and Jim Crow -- African-American Women in the Military -- Nurses in the Military -- Medical Officers in the Military -- The Military on Black College Campuses -- Dissidents and the War Effort -- Korea and Vietnam -- Music -- Music and Slavery -- Ragtime Music -- Blacks in Country Music -- Record Companies -- Big Bands and Bandmasters -- Classical Music -- Gospel Music -- Choirs and Other Orchestras -- Composers -- Racial Segregation and Black Singers -- Urban Blues -- Pop Music -- Soul Music -- Music of the Civil Rights Era -- Jazz Music and Musicians -- Blues -- Hip Hop -- Reggae -- Rhythm and Blues -- Organizations -- Organizations and Societal Forces -- Business and Unions -- Civil and Political Rights -- Educational Organizations -- Fraternal, Social Service, and Religious Organizations -- Medical and Dental Associations -- Women's Organizations -- Politics and Government -- Early Political Activities -- Politics During the Reconstruction -- Political Parties and Politics -- Law and the Supreme Court -- Law Enforcement -- The U.S. Congress in Modern Times -- State Office Holders -- Federal Government -- Women and the Political Process -- Federal Courts -- U.S. Department of Justice -- Women in the U.S. Senate -- Mayoral Elections -- Religion -- African-American Christians in the Colonial America -- The Founding of the Black Church in America -- Black Preachers and Religious Leaders -- Evangelists and Evangelism -- Racial Segregation and the Black Church -- Music and the Black Church -- Early Religious Leaders and Civil Rights -- The Black Church in the Modern Civil Rights Movement.

Popes, Saints, Archbishops, and Nuns -- Megachurches in the African-American Community -- Black Jews -- Pentecostalism in the Black Community -- Rastafarianism -- Muslims in America -- Gender Equality in the Black Church -- Women and Righteous Discontent -- Toward a Black Theology -- Science, Inventions, Medicine, and Aerospace -- Science -- Inventions and Patents -- Black Women Inventors -- Medicine -- Black Women in Medicine -- Aerospace -- Sports -- African-American Sports History -- Emergence of the Black Athlete -- Sports in the Time of Slavery -- Horseracing -- Boxing -- Baseball -- Basketball -- Football -- Golf -- Gymnastics -- Tennis -- Track and Field and the Olympics -- Miscellaneous Sports -- References -- Index -- Back Cover.