Freedom on My Mind (High School) by Deborah Gray White; Mia Bay; Waldo E. Martin Jr. - Third Edition, 2022 from Macmillan Student Store

Freedom on My Mind (High School)

A History of African Americans, With DocumentsThird Edition ©2022 Deborah Gray White; Mia Bay; Waldo E. Martin Jr.

Written by three leading historians of African American history and available in multiple print and digital formats, Freedom on My Mind is the best choice for instructors who want an authoritative text that encourages students to think critically and analytically about African American hist...
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Freedom on My Mind (High School) by Deborah Gray White; Mia Bay; Waldo E. Martin Jr. - Third Edition, 2022 from Macmillan Student Store

Written by three leading historians of African American history and available in multiple print and digital formats, Freedom on My Mind is the best choice for instructors who want an authoritative text that encourages students to think critically and analytically about African American history and the historical realities behind the American dream. The narrative examines African American’s quest for freedom as the central theme and situates that quest in the context of American history. Document Projects at the end of each chapter offer students a deeper experience with historical figures as well as an introduction to how historians use primary sources.

Features

  • Narrative history with primary sources.
  • Broad perspective that demonstrates the link between African American history and US history.
  • Titled chapter-opening vignettes highlight the lives and experiences of both famous and not-so-famous African Americans.
  • A comprehensive list of Historically Black Colleges and Universities provides students with a catalog of Black Higher Education Institutions founded from 1865 through the end of the twentieth century.

New to This Edition

  • New and extensively revised chapters. A new chapter 1 is dedicated to "African Origins: Beginnings to ca. 1600 CE," while chapter 2 is now entirely focused on the transatlantic slave trade.The 1915-1940 period is now covered in two chapters, allowing for expanded coverage of cultural, social, and political developments during this period. Chapter 17 on the contemporary period has been extensively revised to reflect the many significant trends and events of the past two decades, including the Trump presidency.　
  • New scholarship throughout. Every chapter has been updated to reflect the latest scholarship, from details on slavery in colonial New England, to updated statistics on the magnitude of racial terror lynching, to new insights into mass incarceration in the contemporary period.　
  • Three new Document Projects—"Imagining Africa" in chapter 1, "The Harlem/New Negro Renaissance" in chapter 12, and "All Africa’s Children" on contemporary black immigrants in chapter 16—allow students to practice "doing" history with fresh and engaging themes. In addition to these entirely new Document Projects, there are new textual and visual sources within existing Document Projects, such as an interview with Ona Judge, addresses from Reconstruction-era political conventions, and the lyrics from Nina Simone’s "Mississippi Goddam."
"I love everything about this book. It offers a comprehensive history of African Americans that is student-friendly: well-organized, excellent coverage, in a thematic, highly-readable format, supported by a robust selection of excellent primary sources. Through these primary source readings, students are better able to develop a connection with the material and form a deeper understanding, rather than just know or memorize that something happened."
— Richard A. Buckelew, Bethune-Cookman University.

"Freedom on My Mind shines a much needed light on the centuries-long efforts of black people to define themselves, record their triumphs and tragedies, and celebrate their heritage…What I like most about this book is how the authors have gone out of their way to find images, documents, maps, graphs, etc., that are unusual or seldom seen."
— Marilyn Howard, Columbus State Community College

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Table of Contents

1. African Origins, Beginnings to ca. 1600 C.E.
2. From Africa to America, 1441-1808  
3. Slavery in North America, 1619–1740 
4. African Americans in the Age of Revolution, 1741–1783
5. Slavery and Freedom in the New Republic, 1775–1820 
6. Black Life in the Slave South, 1820–1860  
7. The Northern Black Freedom Struggle and the Coming of the Civil War, 1830–1860  
8. Freedom Rising: The Civil War, 1861–1865  
9. Reconstruction: The Making and Unmaking of a Revolution, 1865–1877
10. Black Life and Culture during the Nadir, 1880–1915 
11. The New Negro Comes of Age, 1915–1930 
12. Catastrophe, Recovery, and Renewal, 1930–1942  
13. Fighting for a Double Victory in the World War　II Era, 1939–1950  
14. The Early Civil Rights Movement, 1945–1963 
15. Multiple Meanings of Freedom: The Movement Broadens, 1961–1976  
16. Racial Progress in an Era of Backlash and Change, 1967–2000  
17. African Americans in the 21st Century

Deborah Gray White

Deborah Gray White (Ph.D., University of Illinois at Chicago) is Board of Governors Distinguished Professor of History at Rutgers University. She is the author of many works including Lost in the USA: American Identity from the Promise Keepers to the Million Mom March; Too Heavy a Load: Black Women in Defense of Themselves, 1894–1994; Ar’n’t I a Woman? Female Slaves in the Plantation South; and the edited volume Telling Histories: Black Women Historians in the Ivory Tower. She is a recipient of the John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship and the Woodrow Wilson International Center Fellowship. She holds the Carter G. Woodson Medallion and the Frederick Douglass Medal for excellence in African American history. She currently co-directs the “Scarlet and Black Project” which investigates Native Americans and African Americans in the history of Rutgers University. With Professor Marisa Fuentes she is editor of Scarlet and Black: Slavery and Dispossession in Rutgers History, and with Fuentes and Professor Kendra Boyd, Scarlet and Black: Constructing Race and Gender at Rutgers, 1865-1945.

Mia Bay

Mia Bay (Ph.D., Yale University) is the Roy F. and Jeanette P. Nichols Professor of American History at the University of Pennsylvania. Her publications include To Tell the Truth Freely: The Life of Ida B. Wells; The White Image in the Black Mind: African-American Ideas about White People, 1830–1925; and the edited volume Ida B. Wells, The Light of Truth: The Writings of an Anti-Lynching Crusader. She is a recipient of the Alphonse Fletcher Sr. Fellowship and the National Humanities Center Fellowship. An Organization of American Historians Distinguished Lecturer, Bay is a member of the executive board of the Society of American Historians and serves on the editorial boards of the Journal of African American History and the African American Intellectual History Society’s Black Perspectives Blog. Currently, she is at work on a book examining the social history of segregated transportation and a study of African American views on Thomas Jefferson.

Waldo E. Martin, Jr.

Waldo E. Martin Jr. (Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley) is the Alexander F. and May T. Morrison Professor of American History and Citizenship at the University of California, Berkeley. He is the author of No Coward Soldiers: Black Cultural Politics in Postwar America; Brown v. Board of Education: A Brief History with Documents; The Mind of Frederick Douglass; and, with Joshua Bloom, the coauthor of Black against Empire: The History and Politics of the Black Panther Party. With Patricia A. Sullivan, he serves as coeditor of the John Hope Franklin Series in African American History and Culture. Current projects include a forthcoming book on the impact of black cultural politics on the modern black freedom struggle.