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Lifting the chains : the Black freedom struggle since Reconstruction / William H. Chafe.

by Chafe, William H., 1942- author.

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New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2023]

African Americans -- Civil rights -- History.

African Americans -- Politics and government.

African Americans -- Social conditions.

African American political activists -- History.

Racism against Black people -- United States -- History.

Racial justice -- United States -- History.

African Americans -- Societies, etc. -- History.

African American soldiers -- History.

United States -- Race relations -- History.

9780197616451 (hardback) :

0197616453 (hardback)

xvii, 347 pages ; 25 cm

Present at the Creation : 1863-1877 -- The Twilight Years, 1877-1898 -- Family, Church, and Community -- Education and Work -- Politics and Resistance : From 1900 to World War I -- World War I -- The 1920s and 1930s -- The Persistence of Struggle, the Beginning of Hope : African Americans and World War II -- Postwar Protest -- A New Language of Protest, A New Generation of Activists -- Winning the Right to Vote, Coming Apart in the Process -- Triumph and Division -- The Struggle Continues.

"All-Black institutions and local community groups have been at the forefront of the freedom struggle since the beginning. Lifting the Chains is a history of the Black experience in America since the Civil War, told by one of our most distinguished historians of modern America, William H. Chafe. He argues that, despite the wishes and arguments of many whites to the contrary, the struggle for freedom has been carried out primarily by Black Americans, with only occasional assistance from whites. Chafe highlights the role of all-black institutions--especially the churches, lodges, local gangs, neighborhood women's groups, and the Black college clubs that gathered at local pool halls--that talked up the issues, examined different courses of action, and then put their lives on the line to make change happen. The book draws heavily on the tremendous oral history archives at Duke that Chafe founded and nurtured, much of which is previously unpublished. The archives are now a collection of more than 3,600 oral histories tracing the evolution of Black activism, managed under the auspices of the Duke Center for Documentary History. The project uncovered the degree to which Blacks never gave up the struggle against racism, even during the height of Jim Crow segregation from 1900 to 1950. Chafe draws on these valuable resources to build this definitive history of African American activism, a history that can and should inform Black Lives Matter and other contemporary social justice movements."--Publisher.

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