| Description |
317 pages ; 23 cm |
| Contents |
Acts of definition: Langston Hughes, "Montage of a dream deferred" -- Booker T. Washington, from "Up from slavery," "Struggle for an education" -- Richard Wright, from "Black boy" -- Maya Angelou, from "I know why the caged bird sings" -- James Farmer, from "Lay bare the heart," "I'll keep my soul" -- James Baldwin, from "Notes of a native son," "Autobiographical notes" -- bell hooks, from "Talking back" -- World remade: Langston Hughes, "Question and answer" -- David Walker, from "Appeal to the colored citizens of the world," "Our wretchedness in consequence of the preachers of the religion of Jesus Christ" -- Jane Johnson, "Rescue of Jane Johnson" -- James Madison Bell, "Day and the war" -- Frederick Douglass, "Reconstruction" -- Booker T. Washington, "Address delivered at the opening of the cotton sales exposition in Atlanta, Georgia, September 1895" -- W.E.B.Du Bois, from "Souls of black folk," "Of the sons of master and man" -- Ida B. Wells-Barnett, from "Crusade for justice," "Illinois lynchings" -- Mary McLeod Bethune, "College on a garbage dump" -- Martin Luther King Jr. "I have a dream" Different image: Dudley Randall, "Different image" -- Marcus Garvey, from "Philosophy and opinions of Marcus Garvey," Speech delivered on emancipation day at liberty hall, New York City, N.Y. U.S.A. "Future as I see it" -- Malcolm X, from Autobiography of Malcolm X," "1965" -- James Baldwin, "American dream and the American Negro" -- Adam Clayton Powell Jr., from "Adam by Adam," "Black power and the future of America" -- Shirley Chisholm, "51% minority" -- Alex Haley, from "Roots" -- Promised land: Robert Hayden, "Runagate, runagate" -- Harriet Tubman,"on liberty or death" -- Richard Wright, from "Black boy" -- Claude Brown, from "Manchild in the promised land" -- Vision of the world united: Zora Neale Hurston, from "Dust tracks on the road," "Looking things over" -- Paul Robeson, from "Here I stand" "Love will find out the way" -- Martin Luther King Jr. "Christmas sermon on peace" -- Bayard Rustin, from "Down the line," "Reflections on the death of Martin Luther King Jr." -- Alice Walker, from "In search of our mothers' gardens," "Saving the life that is your own: the importance of models in the artist's lives." |
| Subject |
African Americans -- Civil rights.
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| Added Author |
Wells, Diana.
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| ISBN |
0881849251: $11.95 |
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0881849413: $21.95 |
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088184957X |
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