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Author King, Wilma, 1942-

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

Publication Info. New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2005.

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 Moore Stacks  E185.86 .K57 2005    Available  ---
Description vi, 232 pages ; 24 cm
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 179-223) and index.
Contents Africa's progeny cast upon American shores -- Minor players in bondage : interactions between enslaved and slaveholding children in the Old South -- Within the professional household : slave children in the antebellum South -- No bondage for me : free boys and girls within a slave society -- "Dis was atter freedom come" : freed girls and boys remember the Emancipation -- Black and Red education at Hampton Institute : a case study of the Shawnee Indians, 1900-1925 -- What a "life" this is : an African American girl comes of age during the Great Depression in urban America -- 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 -- African American youth face violence and fear of violence in nineteenth- and twentieth-century America -- Emmett Till generation : African American schoolchildren and the modern civil rights movement in the South, 1954-1964 -- Afterword : African American children in contemporary society.
Subject African American children -- History.
African American children.
History.
African American children -- Social conditions.
African American children -- Social conditions.
African Americans -- History.
African Americans.
African Americans -- Social conditions.
African Americans -- Social conditions.
United States -- Race relations.
United States.
Race relations.
United States -- Social conditions.
Social conditions.
ISBN 1403962502
1403962510 paperback