The Cambridge guide to African American history

Abbott, Robert S.

Abele, Julian F.

Affirmative Action

Africa

African Blood Brotherhood (ABB)

Afro-American Studies

Agriculture

AIDS

Ali, Muhammad

Allen, Richard

American Revolution

Anderson, Marian

Angelou, Maya

Anticommunism

Antilynching Campaign

Antislavery Movement

Antiterror Wars

Apartheid

Architecture

Art

Ashe, Arthur R.

Associated Negro Press (ANP)

Atlanta Compromise (1895)

Back-to-Africa Movement

Baker, Ella J.

Baker v. Carr (1962)

Bakke v. Board of Regents of California (1978)

Baldwin, James

Barnett, Claude A.

Bates, Daisy L.

Bethune, Mary McLeod

Birth of a Nation, The (1915)

Black Arts Movement

Black Belt

Black Bourgeoisie (1957)

Black Manifesto (1969)

Black Nationalism

Black Panther Party (BPP)

Black Power Movement

Black Towns

Bloody Sunday

Bond, Horace M.

Bond, Julian

Bouchet, Edward A.

Brooke, Edward W.

Brooks, Gwendolyn E.

Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters (BSCP)

Brown, Charlotte Hawkins

Brown, James N. (Jim)

Brown v. Board of Education (1954)

Buchanan v. Warley (1917)

Buffalo Soldiers

Bunche, Ralph J.

Business

Caesar, Shirley

Capitalism

Carmichael, Stokely (Kwame Turé)

Carver, George Washington

Chesnutt, Charles W.

Children's Defense Fund (CDF)

Chisholm, Shirley A.

Cities

Civil Rights Act of 1957

Civil Rights Act of 1964

Civil Rights Act of 1968

Civil Rights Movement (CRM)

Civil War

Clark, Kenneth B.

Clark, Septima P.

Clubs

Cold War

Colonialism

Congress of Racial Equality (CORE)

Constitution, US (1789)

Conventions, National Negro

Convict-Lease System

Cooper, Anna Julia

Cosby, William H. (Bill)

Dance

Davis, Angela Y.

Davis, W. Allison

Death Penalty

Delany, Martin R.

DePriest, Oscar S.

Desegregation

Divine, Father (George Baker)

Douglass, Frederick

Dred Scott v. Sandford (1857)

Drew, Charles R.

Du Bois, W.E.B.

Durham Manifesto (1942)

Education

Ellison, Ralph

Emancipation

Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC)

Evers, Medgar W.

Executive Order 9981 (1948)

Exodusters

Family

Farmer, James L.

Farrakhan, Louis A.

Feminism

Film

Fisher, Miles Mark

Foreign Affairs

"Forty Acres and a Mule"

Four Freedoms

Franklin, Aretha L.

Franklin, John Hope

Fraternal Orders and Lodges

Fraternities

Free African Society (FAS)

Free Blacks

Freedmen's Bank

Freedmen's Bureau

Freedom Rides

Freedom Summer

Freedom Train

Fugitive Slave Act (1850)

Garvey, Marcus M.

Ghetto

G.I. Bill (1944)

Gibson, Althea

Gospel of Freedom

Graves, Earl G.

Great Depression

Great Migration

Haitian Revolution

Hall, Prince

Hamer, Fannie Lou

Hampton[—]Tuskegee Idea

Hancock, Gordon B.

Handy, William C. (W.C.)

Harlem Renaissance

Harris, Abram L.

Hastie, William H.

Height, Dorothy I.

Higginbotham, H. Leon

Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs)

Hope, John

Home, Lena M.

Houston, Charles H.

Hughes, Langston

Humphrey[—]Hawkins Bill (1976)

Immigration

Indentured Servitude

Indian Wars

Institute of the Black World (IBW)

Interracial Relations

Jackson, Jesse L.

Jackson, Luther P.

Jackson, Mahalia

Jackson, Michael J.

Jacobs, Harriet A.

Jemison, Mae C.

Jobs Campaigns

John Brown's Raid

John Henryism

Johnson, John A. (Jack)

Johnson, John H.

Johnson, Sargent C.

Jordan, Barbara C.

Jordan, Michael J.

Journalism

Journey of Reconciliation (1947)

Just, Ernest E.

Justice, US Department of

Katzenbach v. McClung (1964)

Kerner Report

King, Martin Luther, Jr.

Korean War

Ku Klux Klan (KKK)

Kwanzaa

Labor

Law Enforcement

Lawson, James M.

Lee, Shelton J. (Spike)

Letter from Birmingham Jail (1963)

Lewis, Edmonia

Lewis, John R.

Lewis, Reginald F.

"Lift Every Voice and Sing"

Literature

Little (X), Malcolm

Little Rock Crisis

Louis, Joe

Loving v. Virginia (1967)

Mandela, Nelson R.

Manumission

March on Washington (1963)

March on Washington Movement (MOWM)

Marshall, Thurgood

Massive Resistance

Mays, Benjamin E.

McCoy, Elijah J.

McKissick, Floyd B.

McKissick v. Carmichael (195i)

Medicine

Micheaux, Oscar

Military

Milliken v. Bradley (1974)

Minorities, Racial and Ethnic

Miscegenation

Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party (MFDP)

Mitchell, Clarence M.

Montgomery Bus Boycott

Moore, Harry T.

Morgan v. Virginia (1946)

Morrison, Toni

Moseley-Braun, Carol

Motley, Constance Baker

Moynihan Report

Muhammad, Elijah

Multiculturalism

Murray, Pauli

Music

Nation of Islam (NOI)

National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP)

National Association of Black Social Workers (NABSW)

National Association of Colored Women (NACW)

National Council of Negro Women (NCNW)

National Urban League (NUL)

Negritude

Negro History Movement

New Left

New Negro Movement

Niagara Movement

Norris v. Alabama (1935)

Obama, Barack H.

Operation PUSH (People United to Save Humanity)

Owens, James C. (Jesse)

Pan-African Movement

Parks, Gordon

Parks, Rosa L.

Persian Gulf War

Philanthropy

Photography

Plessy v. Ferguson (1896)

Politics

Port Chicago Mutiny (1944)

Poverty

Powell, Adam Clayton, Jr.

Powell, Colin L.

Race Labels

Race Man/Woman

Randolph, A. Philip

Reconstruction (1865-77)

Redistricting

Religion

Resegregation

Rice, Condoleeza

Robeson, Paul

Robinson, Jack R. (Jackie)

Roots

Rosenwald Schools

Rustin, Bayard T.

Scholarship

Science

Segregation

Share Croppers' Union (SCU)

Sharecropping

Shaw v. Reno (1993)

Sit-ins

Slavery

Smith v. Allwright (1944)

Societies, Mutual Aid

Sororities

Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC)

Southern Negro Youth Congress (SNYC)

Spanish-American War

Spaulding, Charles C.

Sports

State Convention of Colored Men of Texas (1883)

Student Activism

Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC)

Swann v. Charlotte-Mecklenburg Board of Education (1971)

Sweatt v. Painter (1950)

Talented Tenth

Technology

Television

Temperance Movement

Terrell, Mary Church

Theatre

Thomas, Clarence

Thurman, Howard

TransAfrica

Truth, Sojourner

Tubman, Harriet R.

Tuskegee Experiment

Tuskegee Machine

Underground Railroad

United Negro College Fund (UNCF)

Universal Negro Improvement Association (UNIA)

Vietnam War

Violence, Racial

Voter Education Project (VEP)

Voting Rights Act of 1965

Wagner Act (1935)

Walker, Alice

Walker, David

Walker, Madam C.J.

Walker, Maggie Lena

Washington, Booker T.

Weaver, Robert C.

Welfare

Wells-Barnett, Ida B.

Wheatley, Phillis

White, Walter F.

Wilder, L. Douglas

Wilkins, Roy O.

Williams, Robert F.

Wilmington Ten

Winfrey, Oprah G.

Woods, Eldrick T. (Tiger)

Woodson, Carter G.

World War I

World War II

Wright, Richard

Young, Andrew J.

Young, Plummer B.

Young, Whitney M.