TY - BOOK AU - Finkelman,Paul TI - Encyclopedia of African American history, 1896 to the present: from the age of segregation to the twenty-first century SN - 9780195167795 (set : alk. paper) AV - E185 .E5453 2009 U1 - 973/.0496073 22 PY - 2009/// CY - New York PB - Oxford University Press KW - African Americans KW - History KW - Encyclopedias KW - 1877-1964 KW - 1964- KW - Biography N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index; v. 1. A-C -- v. 2. D-I -- v. 3. J-N -- v. 4. O-T -- v. 5. U-Y, Chronology, Index N2 - Focusing on the making of African American society from the 1896 "separate but equal" ruling of Plessy v. 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 UR - http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip0825/2008034263.html ER -