Description

African-American condition after the emancipation proclamation in USA (Par Prudence Abihounmè HOUNDEGNON)

CONTENTS

 

INTRODUCTION

 

LITERATURE REVIEW

 

CHAPTER I: BLACK FREEDMEN AND THE CIVIL WAR

1-1-BLACKS AND THE AMERICAN CIVIL WAR (1861-1865)

1-2- THE BETRAYAL AFTER THE WAR

1-3- CHARACTERISTICS OF THE AMERICAN FREEDMEN

1-4- EARLY FIGURES OF AFRICAN-AMERICAN IMPROVEMENT

 

CHAPTER II- OPPRESSIVE MEASURES AND MOVEMENTS AGAINST BLACKS

2-1- THE GEOGRAPHIC APARTHEID SYSTEM

2-2- RACIAL SEGREGATION

2-3-BLACK CODES

2-4- THE KU-KLUX-KLAN

2-5-THE JIM CROW LAW

 

CHAPTER III- AFRICAN-AMERICANS STRUGGLE FOR CIVIL RIGHTS

3-1-THE CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT

3-2- REVEREND Martin Luther King Jr: AN EFFECTIVE LEADER      OF THE CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT

3-3- THE MARCH ON WASHINGTON, DC

3-4- BLACK WOMEN AND THE CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT

CONCLUSION

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