John H. Jordan

Broschiertes Buch

Black Americans 17th Century to 21st Century

Black Struggles and Successes

Beschreibung

This book is about the true history of black Americans, which started about the seventeenth century with indentured servitude in British America and progressed on to the election of Barack Obama as the forty-fourth president of the United States. Between those landmarks were other events and issues, both resolved and ongoing, that were faced by black Americans. Some of these were slavery, reconstruction, development of the black community, participation in the great military conflicts of the United States, racial segregation, and the civil rights movement. Black Americans make up the single largest minority in the United States, the second-largest group after whites in the United States. The Great Migrations, Underground Railroad and Abolitionist, Harlem Renaissance, the Civil Rights Movement, and Women in Black-American History.

Autor

John H. Jordan is the author of Black Americans 17th Century to 21st Century. This is his first book. John feels that everyone should know the history of black Americans. The struggles and the successes.

John H. Jordan was born on February 17, 1944, on a farm about five miles south of the town of Leland, Mississippi (Delta). He was raised by his grandfather. His grandfather was a sharecropper.

Many former slaves who remained in the South worked under the sharecropping system, where they worked for the landowners on small plots of land. Unfortunately, this system was easily corrupted by landowners who charged exorbitant amounts for monies loaned to the sharecroppers. Many sharecroppers became caught in a cycle of debt they could never pay back.

As a black American in Mississippi, John was treated as though he had no rights. When he went into a store, there were separate water fountains; one had a sign for whites and another for colored. He was not allowed to use the toilet at a store, restaurant, or service station. Most restaurants would not serve him, or if they did, he had to go to a window outside.

In 1964, John enlisted in the US Marine Corp. He served four years active duty, and two years in the reserves.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Trafford Publishing
• Seitenzahl: 622
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. November 2013
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 36mm
• Gewicht: 996g
• ISBN-13: 9781490717326
• ISBN-10: 1490717323
• Artikelnr.: 40041693