This volume considers innovations, transitions, and traditions in both familiar and unfamiliar texts and moments in 1960s African American literature and culture. It interrogates declarations of race, ...

Although the prospect of civil rights and equality for African Americans looked to have experienced a set back by the start of the 1970s, progress was made. In 1972, the United States Congress ...

But the 1970s cracked the door open ... pioneers Hellen Williams and Ophelia Devore (a mixed-race woman of African-American ...

Affirmative action made it necessary for government agencies, state governments, local governments and public organisations to hire more African Americans. Black Americans became more involved in ...