Black History Month - Day 26 Book Recommendation: Before the Mayflower: A History of Black America by Lerone Bennett, Jr

This book provides a detailed history and analysis of Black history in the US.  Bennett “traces black history from its origins in western Africa, through the transatlantic journey that ended in slavery, the Reconstruction period, the Jim Crow era, and the civil rights upheavals of the 1960s and 1970s, culminating in an exploration of the complex realities of African-American life in the 1990s. Here is the most recent scholarship on the geographic, social, ethnic, economic, and cultural journey of "the other Americans, " together with vital portraits of black pioneers and seminal figures in the struggle for freedom. “(Goodreads.com)