| Description |
xv, 236 p. ; 22 cm. |
| Bibliography |
Bibliography: p. 234-236. |
| Contents |
Cast down your bucket, by Booker T. Washington.--From An ABC of color, by W. E. B. DuBois.--The promise of equality, by Stephen J. Wright.--The dilemma of the American Negro scholar, by John Hope Franklin.--Religion, poetry and history: foundations for a new educational system, by Margaret Walker Alexander.--Inhumanity of slavery, by Frederick Douglass.--Psychological reactions of oppressed people, by Richard Wright.--On being Negro in America, by Saunders Redding.--The exiles, by Nathan Hare.--From The fire next time, by James Baldwin.--Soul Food, by LeRoi Jones.--The Negro writer and American literature, by Saunders Redding.--Beating that boy, by Ralph Ellison.--The myth of a "Negro literature," by LeRoi Jones.--Teaching English as a foreign language to students with sub-standard dialects, by Marian Musgrave.--The sorrow songs: the spirituals, by Alain Locke.--Classic blues, by LeRoi Jones.--Jazz and the jazz age: 1918-1926, by Alain Locke.--Living with music, by Ralph Ellison.--The Negro as artist and in American art, by Margaret Just Butcher.--It's a long way to St. Louis, by Adam David Miller.--The Nation of Islam, is this a true religion? by Louis E. Lomax.--The Harvard Law School Forum speech of March 24, 1961, by Malcolm X.--The answer to a perplexing question, by Martin Luther King, Jr.--From The luminous darkness, by Howard Thurman.--Black politics: a brief survey, by Gladys J. Curry.--Beginning the new revolution in the 1950's.--Power and racism, by Stokely Carmichael.--The question of power, by Nathan Wright, Jr. |
| Subject |
College readers.
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American essays -- African American authors.
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| ISBN |
0139419632 |
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