| Edition |
[Updated edition]. |
| Description |
736 pages ; 26 cm |
| Note |
Includes material through 2008. |
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"Previously published as The African-American archive"--T.p. verso. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (page 721) and index. |
| Summary |
This collection of original documents on African American history and culture includes memoirs, speeches, songs, letters, and literary works by African American authors, along with laws, court opinions, and other materials on the subject. |
| Contents |
"20 and odd Negroes" : a violent beginning -- The birth of African America: from religion to revolution -- I will be heard: abolition and the build up to civil war -- A house divided: emancipation and the Civil War era -- Forty acres and a mule : reconstruction and its aftermath -- Talented tenth : the Harlem Renaissance and the new Negro -- A dream no longer deferred : the Civil Rights movement -- Say it loud : Black power and beyond -- Learning to talk of race : the modern era. |
| Subject |
African Americans -- History -- Sources.
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| Added Author |
Wright, Kai.
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| Added Title |
Black history and culture through speeches, letters, editorials, poems, songs, and stories |
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African-American archive.
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| ISBN |
9781579127732 paperback |
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1579127738 paperback |
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