"First published in 1992, it traced the story of black North Carolinians from the colonial period into the 1990s. A revised edition issued in 2002 that included

The period between 1880 and 1918, at the end of which Jim Crow was firmly established and the Great Migration of African Americans was well under way, was not t

From the earliest texts of the colonial period to works contemporary with Emancipation, African American literature has been a dialogue across color lines, and