Black Man White House

African American History and Civil Rights in one book for all

Black freedom & awareness, emancipation, slavery, civil rights and black leadership across America for the last four century are some of the topics covered in this essay by Eric Reese. In detail, you find brief summaries on the following subjects;

• The Underground Railroad
• Martin Luther King, Jr. and Malcolm X
• Harriet Tubman and George Washington Carver
• Sports activists such as Jesse Owens, Jackie Robinson and Muhammad Ali
• Background of the Harlem Renaissance and Rainbow Coalition
• The Dred Scott Decision, Brown versus the Board of Education, the Thirteenth Amendment and slavery's end
• And many more historical references...

The painful memories for African Americans seeking equality in changing status quo is enough to pick this book up for a young reader especially.