Discusses the history of Blacks in the United States since their importation as slaves beginning in the fifteenth century. Underscores the great impact the Black presence has had, and continues to have, on the cultural, biological, political, and economic development of the United States. (MK)

Reviews the political history of Black education in Florida from 1876 to 1976. Emphasizes the role of government in the evolution of public education. (MK)

Examines the historical development of the Black protest movement in the United States and analyzes how the Black press responded to developments and changes in the movement, from the founding of the first Black newspaper in 1827 until the end of World War II. (Author/MJL)

Following the removal of the Freedman's Bureau and failure of labor recruitment efforts targeted to Chinese and European immigrants, the practices of sharecropping, tenant farming, and the hiring of convict labor replaced slave labor in the South's postbellum agricultural economy. Lack of minimal economic power among freed Blacks resulted in slave…