From the first African explorers to the first black president, this illustrated history is an excellent resource.
“Discovering Black America” is an unprecedented account of more than 400 years of African American history set against a background of American and global events. It begins with a black sailor aboard the Niña with Christopher Columbus and continues through the colonial period, slavery, the Civil War, Jim Crow, and civil rights to the first African American president in the White House. With first-person narratives from diaries and journals, interviews, and archival images, “Discovering Black America” provides an intimate understanding of this extensive history.
