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African American childhoods : historical perspectives from slavery to civil rights / Wilma King.
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African American childhoods : historical perspectives from slavery to civil rights / Wilma King.

Author: Wilma King
Publisher: New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2005.
Edition/Format:   Book : English
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Material Type: Internet resource
Document Type: Book, Internet Resource
All Authors / Contributors: Wilma King
ISBN: 1403962502 9781403962508 1403962510 9781403962515
OCLC Number: 60359608
Description: vi, 232 p. ; 24 cm.
Contents: List of illustrations --
pt. 1 --
Introduction --
1. Africa's progeny cast upon American shores --
2. Minor players in bondage : interactions between enslaved and slaveholding children in the Old South --
3. Within the professional household : slave children in the antebellum South --
4. No bondage for me : free boys and girls within a slave society --
pt. 2 --
5. "Dis was atter freedom come" : freed girls and boys remember the Emancipation --
6. Black and Red education at Hampton Institute : a case study of the Shawnee Indians, 1900-1925 --
7. What a "life" this is : an African American girl comes of age during the Great Depression in urban America --
8. The long way from the Gold Dust Twins to the Williams Sisters : images of African American children in selected nineteenth- and twentieth-century print media --
9. African American youth face violence and fear of violence in nineteenth- and twentieth-century America --
10. Emmett Till generation : African American schoolchildren and the modern civil rights movement in the South, 1954-1964 --
Afterword : African American children in contemporary society --
Notes --
Index.
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