Arvarh E. Strickland is Professor Emeritus of History at the University of Missouri—Columbia. His recent publications include Working with Carter G. Woodson, the Father of Black History: A Diary, 1928-1933 (1989) and Selling Black History for Carter G. Woodson: A Diary, 1930-1933 (1996).Robert E.Weems, Jr. is Professor of History at the University of Missouri—Columbia. He is the author of Black Business in the Black Metropolis: The Chicago Metropolitan Assurance Company, 1925-1985 (1996) and Desegregating the Dollar: African American Consumerism in the Twentieth Century (1998).

• Preface African American Migration and Urbanization by Arvarh E. Strickland and Robert E. Weems, Jr. The African American Worker in Slavery and Freedom by Joe William Trotter, Jr. African American Families: Historically Resilient by Aaron Thompson African American Women by Wilma King The African American Educational Experience by Carolyn A. Dorsey The African American Literary Tradition by Clenora Hudson-Weems The African American Musical Experience by John A. Taylor African American Intellectual/Political Thought by Robert L. Harris, Jr. The African American Political Experience by Sharon D. Wright and Minion K.C. Morrison The African American Press by Julius E. Thompson African Americans in the Military of the United States by John F. Marszalek and Horace D. Nash The African American Athletic Experience by David K. Wiggins Constructing an Historiography of African American Business by Juliet E. K. Walker Sexuality and Race by Stanley O. Gaines, Jr. African American Consumerism by Robert E. Weems, Jr. The Civil Rights Movement by John Dittmer African American Religion in the United States by Charles H. Long