Lifting the Chains: The Black Freedom Struggle Since Reconstruction

by William Henry Chafe

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0197616453
• ISBN13: 9780197616451
• Release Date: August 2023
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 368 Pages
• Weight: 1.52 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.5" x 9.3"