Includes bibliographical references (pages [223]-230) and index.
1. The founding -- 2. The antebellum period -- 3. The Civil War and Reconstruction -- 4. Retreat from Reconstruction -- 5. White supremacy ascendant -- 6. The Progressive Era -- 7. Between the World Wars -- 8. World War II -- 9. Brown v. Board of Education -- 10. The civil rights era -- 11. To the present