Black-and-white photographs and text discuss the social history between slavery and the civil rights movement, and cover legal discrimination, the Ku Klux Klan, Booker T. Washington, the NAACP, race riots, Harlem, military service during the World Wars, and more.

Electronic reproduction. Includes index.

Moving North -- Legal discrimination -- Time for change -- Ku Klux Klan -- Lynching -- Black press -- Marcus Mosiah Garvey -- National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) -- W.E.B. Du Bois -- Chicago : the top destination -- Harlem : a place for a renaissance -- Discrimination in northern workplaces -- Ghettos : the new home for migrants -- Military service during the world wars -- Migration : the early stages of the civil rights protest -- A victory in the fight for rights -- Timeline -- Activity -- Quiz.