Lecture notes detailing the trials, tribulations and triumphs of the African American community after Reconstruction ended. Covering Esteban, Jean Baptiste Pointe du Sable, York, The Bonga Family of Minnesota, James Beckwourth, Mifflin Gibbs, Biddy Mason, Pio Pico, Isom Dart, Cherokee Bill, Ben Hodges, Deadwood Dick, Bill Pickett, Benjamin “Pap” Singleton, the Southern Alliance, the Colored Farmers Alliance, African American Disenfranchisement, the Populist Party, Debt Peonage, Booker T. Washing