xviii, 300 pages : 25 cm

"This guide lists the numerous examples of government documents, manuscripts, books, photographs, recordings and films in the collections of the Library of Congress which examine African-American life. Works by and about African-Americans on the topics of slavery, music, art, literature, the military, sports, civil rights and other pertinent subjects are discussed"--

Includes bibliographical references and index

Part one : African-Americans in the Antebellum period. Slavery : the peculiar institution -- Free blacks in the Antebellum period -- Abolitionists, antislavery movements, and the rise of the sectional controversy -- Part two : forever free : emancipation and beyond. The Civil War -- Reconstruction and its aftermath -- The Booker T. Washington era -- Part three : and the pursuit of happiness. World War I and postwar society -- The Depression, the New Deal, and World War II -- The civil rights era

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