Encyclopedia of African American history, 1896 to the present :  from the age of segregation to the twenty-first century / 
editor in chief, Paul Finkelman. 
 - New York :  Oxford University Press,  (c)2009. 
 - 5 volume :  illustrations ;  29 cm. 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographies and index. 
<br/><br/>volume 1. A-C --  volume 2. D-I --  volume 3. J-N --  volume 4. O-T --  volume 5. U-Y, Index. 
<br/><br/> Focusing on the making of African American society from the 1896 "separate but equal" ruling of Plessy volume Ferguson up to the contemporary period, this encyclopedia traces the transition from the Reconstruction Era to the age of Jim Crow, the Harlem Renaissance, the Great Migration, the Brown  ruling that overturned Plessy , the Civil Rights Movement, and the ascendant influence of African-American culture on the American cultural landscape. --publisher description 
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<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780195167795 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>African Americans--History--Encyclopedias.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>E185  / .E539 2009 E185