Africa and Black Americans -- Captives transported, 1619-ca. 1850 -- A diasporic people, 1630-ca. 1850 -- Those who were free, ca. 1770-1859 -- Those who were enslaved, ca. 1770-1859 -- Civil War and emancipation, 1859-1865 -- The larger Reconstruction, 1864-1896 -- Hard-working people in the depths of segregation, 1896-ca. 1919 -- The New Negro, 1915-1932 -- Radicals and Democrats, 1930-1940 -- The Second World War and the promise of internationalism, 1940-1948 -- Cold War civil rights, 1948-1960 -- Protest makes a civil rights revolution, 1960-1967 -- Black Power, 1966-1980 -- Authenticity and diversity in the era of hip-hop, 1980-2005 -- Epilogue: a snapshot of African Americans in the early twenty-first century -- Timelines.