Unbroken and unbowed: a history of black protest in America

Section 1: The age of exploitation in the New World: African protest: 1440-1775. Precolonial life ; Colonial America ; From freedom to slavery

Section 2: The protest of the enslaved: the colored fight back: 1776-1877. Slavery: born in Hell ; Slave protest: by land or by sea ; Enslaved religion ; The war of liberation: 1775-1783 ; The unfinished revolution ; The abolitionist movement ; The Underground Railroad (UGRR) ; The prophet, the evangelist, the Moses ; The war to end slavery ; The Reconstruction decade ; Slavery's child: white supremacy

Section 3: Protesting Reconstruction's failures: Negroes in the New America: 1878-1954. The northern betrayal of the negro ; Domestic terrorism ; Slaves to sharecroppers to convicts ; The old Jim Crow ; Booker T. and W.E.B. ; Negro institutions ; The Great Migration ; The negro West ; Negro towns and communities ; The Harlem Renaissance ; The negro soldier ; The same ol' deal

Section 4: The Civil Rights and Black Power Movements: Black and Afro-American protest: 1955-1987. The Civil Rights movement ; The leadership of Black women ; Youth leadership ; Martyrs of the Civil Rights movement ; The Black Power movement ; Inner-city rebellion ; Black freedom fighters

Section 5: Protest in a rapidly changing world: African American protest: 1988-2020. The African American political renaissance ; The African American literature as protest ; African American film as protest ; The power and protest of the African American athlete ; African American philanthropy as protest ; The new wars on African Americans ; Living a "woke" life and social media protest ; Twenty-first-century movements ; #BLM ; African American LGBTQIA protest ; The talk ; Obama as "dream" and Trump as "nightmare" ; 2020: "what a year!" Conclusion: what comes next?