This A-to-Z volume examines the role of African Americans in the political process from the early days of the American Revolution to the present. Focusing on basic political ideas, court cases, laws, concepts, ideologies, institutions, and political processes, this book covers all facets of African Americans in American government. Written by a nationally renowned scholar in the field, the Encyclopedia of African-American Politics, Third Edition will enlighten readers to the struggles and triumphs of African Americans in the American political system.
Entries include:
Abolitionist Movement
African immigrants
Barack Obama
Black Lives Matter
Black Panther Party
Civil Rights Act of 1964
Emancipation Proclamation
"Forty Acres and a Mule"
Freedmen's Bureau
Hurricane Katrina
Institutional racism
Integrationism
Juneteenth
Lynching
Malcolm X
Million Man March
Raphael Warnock
