Bøker av Katherine C. Mooney

The rise and fall of one of America’s first Black sports celebrities

The rise and fall of one of America's first Black sports celebrities

First published in 1978, Claude Oubre's Forty Acres and a Mule has since become a definitive study in the history of American Reconstruction. Oubre recounts the struggle of black families to acquire land and how the US government agency Freedmen's Bureau both served and obstructed them.