| Description |
xix, 300 pages ; 24 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 277-281) and index. |
| Contents |
Fighting for the first freedom ("World's great men of color" / J.A. Rogers -- "Black cargoes : a history of the Atlantic slave trade,1518-1865" / Daniel Manix in collaboration with Malcolm Cowley -- "The negro in Virginia" : compiled by Workers of the Writers Program of the Works Progress Administration in Virginia -- "David Walker's appeal", in four articles, together with a preamble, to the coloured citizens of the world, but in particular, and very expressly, to those of the United States of America / edited and with an introduction by Charles M. Wiltse -- "William Styron's Nat Turner : Ten black writers respond", edited by John Henrik Clarke -- "The Travels of William Wells Brown" / William Wells Brown) -- That all shall be free ("The Dred Scott case : its significance in American law and politics" / Don E. Fehrenbacher -- "Harriet Tubman : conductor on the Underground Railroad" / Ann Petry |
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"The Negro in the Civil War" / Benjamin Quarles -- "Captain of the Planter : the story of Robert Smalls" / Dorothy Sterling -- "The life and times of Frederick Douglass", with a new introduction by Rayford Logan -- "The glorious failure : Black Congressman Robert Brown Elliott and the reconstruction in South Carolina" / Peggy Lamson -- "Pinckney Benton Steward Pinchback" / James Haskins -- "Buffalo Soldiers : a narrative of the Negro Cavalry in the West" / William H. Leckie -- "The Negro cowboys" / Philip Durham and Everett L. Jones -- "The betrayal of the Negro : from Rutherford B. Hayes to Woodrow Wilson / Rayford Logan) |
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What racism couldn't kill--the accommodating and the angry ("Created equal : the lives and ideas of Black American innovators" / James Michael Brodie -- "Before the Mayflower : a history of Black America" / Lerone Bennett, Jr. -- "The Negro in New York : an informal social history", edited by Roi Ottley and William J. Weatherby -- "Crusade for justice : the autobiography of Ida B. Wells Barnett", edited by Alfreda M. Duster -- "Up from slavery" / Booker T. Washington -- "Along this way : the autobiography of James Weldon Johnson" / James Weldon Johnson -- "The Negro Press in the United States" / Frederick Detweiler -- "The guardian of Boston : Monroe Trotter" / Stephen Fox -- "The mis-education of the Negro" / Carter G. Woodson) |
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Infants of the spring--a literature arises from the holocaust ("Cane" / Jean Toomer -- "Harlem Renaissance" / Nathan Irvin Huggins -- "Their eyes were watching God : a novel" / Zora Neale Hurston -- "Marcus Garvey and the vision of Africa", edited by John Henrik Clark -- "100 years of lynchings" / Ralph Ginzburg -- "The ways of white folks" / Langston Hughes -- "The last of the Scottsboro Boys" / Clarence Norris and Sybil Washington) |
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Making the world safe for democracy--again! ("The African-American soldier" / Michael Lee Lanning -- "Invisible man" / Ralph Ellison -- "The outsider" / Richard Wright -- "Here I stand" / Paul Robeson -- "The autobiography of W.E.B. Du Bois" -- "Stride toward freedom : the Montgomery story" / Martin Luther King,Jr. -- "Sex and racism in America" / Calvin Hernton -- "Adam by Adam : the autobiography of Adam Clayton Powell, Jr.") |
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The Emperor's new clothes (Dutchman and the slave and The baptism and the toilet / Amiri Baraka -- "This little light of mine : the life of Fannie Lou Hamer" / Kay Mills -- "The autobiography of Malcolm X", with the assistance of Alex Haley -- "The making of Black revolutionaries" / James Forman -- "Soul on ice" / Eldridge Cleaver -- "Soledad brother : the prison letters of George Jackson",with an introduction by Jean Genet -- "And the walls came tumbling down : an autobiography" / Ralph David Abernathy -- "The COINTELPRO papers" / Ward Churchill and Jim Vander Wall -- "Defending the spirit" / Randall Robinson -- "Harlem Renaissance : art of Black America" : essays by David Driskell, David Levering Lewis, and Deborah Willis Ryan, with an introduction by Mary Schmidt Campbell). |
| Subject |
African Americans -- Book reviews.
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African Americans -- Bibliography.
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| ISBN |
0806522046 |
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9780806522043 |
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