From Chains to Change — Book 3: Power & Legacy

Book 3 tells what Black Americans built with the freedom they fought for, and what it took to keep it. It covers the colleges that trained a people’s leaders, the inventors who were refused patents and invented anyway, the movement that broke Jim Crow, the Black Power generation, the music from spirituals to hip-hop, and the long road from Reconstruction’s first Black congressmen to the Supreme Court decision that reopened the fight over the vote.

Inside:

1. HBCUs
2. Black Inventors and Scientists
3. The Civil Rights Movement
4. Black Power
5. The Evolution of Black Music
6. Black Political Power

• About 16,000 words
• 67 historical images
• Every chapter sourced and fact-checked, with a full bibliography