Includes bibliographical references (pages 335-340) and index.
Cover; Contents; Series Introduction; Preface; Maps; 1 The African American West: Getting Started; Defining the West; Why Study the West?; Americans of African Descent; About This Book; 2 Frontiers of Slavery and Freedom, 1815-1865; Slavery on the Early Frontier; The Community Impulse; Black Individualism; Texas and Slavery; Indian Territory and Slavery; The Mexican War; The California Gold Rush; The Slavery Cases and Colored Conventions; Beyond the West of Bondage?; The West and the Civil War; Conclusion; Bibliographic Essay; 3 Trailblazers in the New West, 1866-1890; The Cowboys.
10 Historiography and Current IssuesThe Historiography of the Black West; A New Wave of Multiracial History?; A ""Minority Majority""?; Chronology; Glossary; A; B; C; D; E; G; H; J; K; L; M; N; P; R; S; T; U; Selected Bibliography; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y; About the Author.
8 The Era of Black Nationalism, 1965-1980The Black West as Trendsetter; Rebellion in Watts; The Aftermath; Black Power! -- Karenga and Kwanzaa; The Black Panthers; Angela Davis and Che-Lumumba; Civil Rights in the West (continued . . .); The Electoral Arena; The 1968 Olympic Games; Blacks and Hollywood; Conclusion; Bibliographic Essay; 9 The African American West since 1980: Decline and Success; The Urban Crisis; The Rodney King Beating; The L.A. Riot; Gangsta Rap; Willie Brown: Political Star; Sports as the Great Equalizer?; Suburbanization; Leaving the West; Bibliographic Essay.
Soldiering WestTo Kansas!; Oklahoma; The Black Towns; The Rise of the Urban West; Building Community -- Bibliographic Essay; 4 Seeking Freedom in the West, 1890-1920; A Different Kind of Black Experience; The South in Crisis; The Talented Tenth Migration; The Great Migration; No Rush Westward; Community Life in the Black West; The Afro-American Council; The Colored Women's Clubs; The Rise of the NAACP; World War I; Bibliographic Essay; 5 Between the World Wars, 1920-1940; The Tulsa Race Riot; The Second Ku Klux Klan; Garveyism out West; The New Negro Renaissance.
The NAACP Convention of 1928The Great Depression and the New Deal; Bibliographic Essay; 6 World War II and the Great Transformation; The Defense Economy; The Second Great Migration; The Role of the Federal Government; Race and Organized Labor; The Port Chicago Disaster; The Housing Crisis; Liberty Ships; Bibliographic Essay; 7 The Era of Racial Liberalism, 1945-1965; An Even Greater Migration; The Housing Crises; Fighting for Civil Rights; Direct-Action Protests; Direct Action in the West; Sports and Entertainment; The Political Arena; Bibliographic Essay.
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--From freed slaves fleeing the Reconstruction-Era South to African American cowboys to millions moving in massive migrations in the early 20th century, African Americans played an important role in the development of the Western U.S. But did the West really deliver a life of greater freedom and.
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African Americans in the West.
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African American pioneers-- West (U.S.)-- History.
African Americans-- West (U.S.)-- History.
African Americans-- West (U.S.)-- Social conditions.