Table of Contents:
  • The African American West: getting started
  • Frontiers of slavery and freedom, 1815-1865
  • Trailblazers in the New West, 1866-1890
  • Seeking freedom in the West, 1890-1920
  • Between the World Wars, 1920-1940
  • World War II and the Great transformation
  • The Era of racial liberalism, 1945-1965
  • The Era of Black Nationalism, 1965-1980
  • The African American west since 1980: decline and success
  • Historiagraphy and current issues.