Gathers a vast range of documents and photographs -- from letters and turn-of-the-century items in the Chicago "Defender, Crisis, and Opportunity, to scholarly research and selections from some of the finest American literary writing, including work by Zora Neale Hurston, James Weldon Johnson, and Ralph Ellison, as well as Wright, DuBois, and Bontemps. A uniquie resource for students and teachers of urban and American studies, this volume is also a moving and eye-opening anthology of African American literature, scholarship, and journalism from the first half of this century. Two page spread o... View More...
The most significant decision ever rendered by an American court. The problems of desegregation touched the lives of every American citizen. The response to it involved political, moral, and social attitudes. But regardless of individual personal feelings about racial segregation, the authors prove there was no discounting the fact that the Supreme Court had spoken. Whatever has been done toward integration was probably done within the legal framework of Brown v. Board of Education. Chipped and stained DJ's spine is sunned, in new mylar, previous owner's name and the date he read it. Underlini... View More...
Accounts of a man who was white and working amongst the negroes of Paducah. Several stories that are humorous without being overly joking. He pays tribute to these people. 12 full page drawings, all present. ; Small 8vo 7½" - 8" tall; 61 pages; 31190 View More...
About "extraordinary 'ordinary' people; a Black America gifted with double-consciousness, a knowing nation within a largely unknowing nation. This book sings and rages with a feeling tone, powerful, eloquent, and, I hope, disturbing. Paradoxically, it is an exhilarating testament of a people who, in some manner incomprehensible to whites, have survived. Reading it is an experience." --Studs Terkel. Small closed tear on front edge of DJ and a corresponding small bump on front board of book. Scuff and a yellow dot at heel of DJ spine. The Date this book was read written on ffep. Laid in at page ... View More...
The hand on front of my book is red, not blue. Despite the wealth of literature on the Negro and slavery, the northern Negro has remained almost the forgotten man in historical research. At long last, this subject has been attacked by Leon Litwack in his book, North of Slavery. The author attempts in eight chapters to survey the life of the Negro in the North from his rise to freedom to his condition on the eve of the Civil War. The book begins with a chapter on the extinction of slavery in the North and concludes with a study of the Negro's position during the 1850's. Other chapters deal with... View More...
Cry, the Beloved Country, the most famous and important novel in South Africa?s history, was an immediate worldwide bestseller in 1948. Alan Paton?s impassioned novel about a black man?s country under white man?s law is a work of searing beauty. An Oprah Book Club selection. Author's first book. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 278 pages; 28884 View More...
The followup novel to Paton's acclaimed debut "Cry the Beloved Country". Modeled on classical tragedy where a man of heroic stature is brought down by a tragic flaw, it takes the reader through an emotional downer because it is announced almost at the start that the story will end tragically. A study about apartheid in the 50s of South Africa. Previous owner's name. Old bookstore label on rear pastedown, lower inside corner. Glossary explains what a Phalarope is: a small migrant wading bird. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 276 pages; 31163 View More...
Winner of the Bancroft Prize. One chilly December evening in the city of Philadelphia, a twenty-eight-year-old man named Amos Webber opened up a notebook and begain to keep a chronicle. He wrote about the weather and about politics, about friends and about family, and he wrote about what it was like to be a black American in a land that still considered those of his skin color to be less than human. The year was 1854. In 1985, Nick Salvatore stumbled upon a 2,000-page chronicle in a Harvard library. The journal of Amos Webber, who was active in the Underground Railroad, fought in the Civil War... View More...
