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Afro-Bets Book of Black Heroes from A to Z: An Introduction to Important Black Achievers for Young Readersby Wade Hudson, Valerie Wilson WesleyISBN 0940975025 (0-940975-02-5)
Softcover, Just Us Books Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Afro-Bets Book of Black Heroes from A to Z: An Introduction to Important Black Achievers for Young Readers'Book summary:Black heroes are presented alphabetically in this classic title for children 8 - 12. A great classroom resource. [via]
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Aunt Harriet's Underground Railroad in the Skyby Faith Ringgold, J. DavisISBN 0517885433 (0-517-88543-3)
Softcover, Random House Childrens Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Aunt Harriet's Underground Railroad in the Sky'Book summary:Illus. in full color. Cassie, who flew above New York in Tar Beach, soars into the sky once more. This time, she and her brother Be Be meet a train full of people, and Be Be joins them. But the train departs before Cassie can climb aboard. With Harriet Tubman as her guide, Cassie retraces the steps escaping slaves took on the real Underground Railroad and is finally reunited with her brother at the story's end. [via]
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The Autobiography of Malcolm Xby Alex Haley, Malcolm X, M. S. HandlerISBN 0345376714 (0-345-37671-4)
Softcover, Ballantine Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Autobiography of Malcolm X'Book summary:Malcolm X's searing memoir belongs on the small shelf of great autobiographies. The reasons are many: the blistering honesty with which he recounts his transformation from a bitter, self-destructive petty criminal into an articulate political activist, the continued relevance of his militant analysis of white racism, and his emphasis on self-respect and self-help for African Americans. And there's the vividness with which he depicts black popular culture--try as he might to criticize those lindy hops at Boston's Roseland dance hall from the perspective of his Muslim faith, he can't help but make them sound pretty wonderful. These are but a few examples. The Autobiography of Malcolm X limns an archetypal journey from ignorance and despair to knowledge and spiritual awakening. When Malcolm tells coauthor Alex Haley, "People don't realize how a man's whole life can be changed by one book," he voices the central belief underpinning every attempt to set down a personal story as an example for others. Although many believe his ethic was directly opposed to Martin Luther King Jr.'s during the civil rights struggle of the '60s, the two were not so different. Malcolm may have displayed a most un-Christian distaste for loving his enemies, but he understood with King that love of God and love of self are the necessary first steps on the road to freedom. --Wendy Smith [via]
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The Autobiography of Malcolm Xby Malcolm X, Alex HaileyISBN 0345350685 (0-345-35068-5)
Softcover, Ballantine Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Autobiography of Malcolm X'Book summary:Malcolm X's searing memoir belongs on the small shelf of great autobiographies. The reasons are many: the blistering honesty with which he recounts his transformation from a bitter, self-destructive petty criminal into an articulate political activist, the continued relevance of his militant analysis of white racism, and his emphasis on self-respect and self-help for African Americans. And there's the vividness with which he depicts black popular culture--try as he might to criticize those lindy hops at Boston's Roseland dance hall from the perspective of his Muslim faith, he can't help but make them sound pretty wonderful. These are but a few examples. The Autobiography of Malcolm X limns an archetypal journey from ignorance and despair to knowledge and spiritual awakening. When Malcolm tells coauthor Alex Haley, "People don't realize how a man's whole life can be changed by one book," he voices the central belief underpinning every attempt to set down a personal story as an example for others. Although many believe his ethic was directly opposed to Martin Luther King Jr.'s during the civil rights struggle of the '60s, the two were not so different. Malcolm may have displayed a most un-Christian distaste for loving his enemies, but he understood with King that love of God and love of self are the necessary first steps on the road to freedom. --Wendy Smith [via]
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Before the Mayflower: A History of Black Americaby Lerone BennettISBN 0874850290 (0-87485-029-0)
Hardcover, Johnson Pub Co Inc
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Before the Mayflower: A History of Black Americaby Bennett, Lerone, Jr.ISBN 0140178228 (0-14-017822-8)
Softcover, Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
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Black Like Me: Library Editionby John Howard GriffinISBN 0451192036 (0-451-19203-6)
Softcover, Signet
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Black Like Me: Library Edition'Book summary:[via]In the Deep South of the 1950s, journalist John Howard Griffin decided to cross the color line. Using medication that darkened his skin to deep brown, he exchanged his privileged life as a Southern white man for the disenfranchised world of an unemployed black man. His audacious, still chillingly relevant eyewitness history is a work about race and humanity-that in this new millennium still has something important to say to every American.
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- Black Like Me: Library Edition: ISBN 0451208641 (0-451-20864-1)
Softcover, New Amer Library - Black Like Me: ISBN 060600405X (0-606-00405-X)
Hardcover, Southgate Publishers - Black Like Me: Library Edition: ISBN 0930324722 (0-930324-72-2)
Hardcover, Wings Pr - Black Like Me: Library Edition: ISBN 0451155300 (0-451-15530-0)
Softcover, New Amer Library - Black Like Me: Library Edition: ISBN 0451163176 (0-451-16317-6)
Softcover, New Amer Library - Black Like Me: Library Edition: ISBN 0395251028 (0-395-25102-8)
Hardcover, Houghton Mifflin - Black Like Me: Library Edition: ISBN 0451192036 (0-451-19203-6)
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- Black Like Me: Library Edition: ISBN 0451208641 (0-451-20864-1)
Day of Tears: A Novel in Dialogueby Julius LesterISBN 1423104099 (1-4231-0409-9)
Softcover, Jump at the Sun
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Freedom Riverby Doreen Rappaport, Bryan CollierISBN 0786803509 (0-7868-0350-9)
Hardcover, Disney Pr
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Go Tell It on the Mountainby James BaldwinISBN 0808514164 (0-8085-1416-4)
Hardcover, Bt Bound
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Go Tell It on the Mountain'Book summary:First published in 1953 when James Baldwin was nearly 30, Go Tell It on the Mountain is a young man's novel, as tightly coiled as a new spring, yet tempered by a maturing man's confidence and empathy. It's not a long book, and its action spans but a single day--yet the author packs in enough emotion, detail, and intimate revelation to make his story feel like a mid-20th-century epic. Using as a frame the spiritual and moral awakening of 14-year-old John Grimes during a Saturday night service in a Harlem storefront church, Baldwin lays bare the secrets of a tormented black family during the depression. John's parents, praying beside him, both wrestle with the ghosts of their sinful pasts--Gabriel, a preacher of towering hypocrisy, fathered an illegitimate child during his first marriage down South and refused to recognize his doomed bastard son; Elizabeth fell in love with a charming, free-spirited young man, followed him to New York, became pregnant with his son, and lost him before she could reveal her condition.
Baldwin lays down the terrible symmetries of these two blighted lives as the ironic context for John's dark night of the soul. When day dawns, John believes himself saved, but his creator makes it clear that this salvation arises as much from blindness as revelation: "He was filled with a joy, a joy unspeakable, whose roots, though he would not trace them on this new day of his life, were nourished by the wellspring of a despair not yet discovered."
Though it was hailed at publication for its groundbreaking use of black idiom, what is most striking about Go Tell It on the Mountain today is its structure and its scope. In peeling back the layers of these damaged lives, Baldwin dramatizes the story of the great black migration from rural South to urban North. "Behind them was the darkness," Baldwin writes of Gabriel and Elizabeth's lost generation, "nothing but the darkness, and all around them destruction, and before them nothing but the fire--a bastard people, far from God, singing and crying in the wilderness!" This is Baldwin's music--a music in which rhapsody is rooted anguish--and there is none finer in American literature. --David Laskin [via]
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Having Our Sayby A. Elizabeth Delany, Sarah L. Delany, Amy Hill HearthISBN 156836010X (1-56836-010-X)
Hardcover, Kodansha Amer Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Having Our Say'Book summary:"I never thought I'd see the day that the world would want to hear what two old Negro women have to say," says Bessie Delany. But Bessie and her sister, Sadie, born in 1893 and 1891, saw plenty, by eating a low-fat, high-vegetable diet and outliving the "old Rebby [rebel] boys" who once almost lynched Sadie. This remarkable memoir was a long-running bestseller, spawning a Broadway play and adding to their list of seasoned acquaintances (Marian Anderson, Langston Hughes, Paul Robeson, Cab Calloway) such spring chickens as Hillary Clinton. Born to a former slave whose owners broke the law by teaching him to read, the sisters got a solid education. North Carolina was paradise--despite the Rebbies--until Jim Crow reared its hideous head. The girls had loved to ride in the front of the trolley because the wind in their hair made them feel free, but one day the conductor sadly ordered them to the back. The family moved to New York, where Bessie became the town's second black woman dentist and Sadie the first black woman home-ec teacher. They befriended everyone who was anyone in the Harlem Renaissance (their brother won the 1925 Congressional primary there), pursued careers instead of husbands, and lived peacefully together, despite their differences. Sadie was more peaceable, like Booker T. Washington, while Bessie was a W.E.B. Du Bois-style militant.
They're funny: Bessie notes that blacks must be sharp to get ahead, "But if you're average and white, honey, you can go far. Just look at Dan Quayle. If that boy was colored he'd be washing dishes somewhere." And they are wise: Sadie says, "Life is short, and it's up to you to make it sweet." [via]
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Having Our Sayby Sarah L. DelanyISBN 0440220424 (0-440-22042-4)
Softcover, Bantam Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Having Our Say'Book summary:"I never thought I'd see the day that the world would want to hear what two old Negro women have to say," says Bessie Delany. But Bessie and her sister, Sadie, born in 1893 and 1891, saw plenty, by eating a low-fat, high-vegetable diet and outliving the "old Rebby [rebel] boys" who once almost lynched Sadie. This remarkable memoir was a long-running bestseller, spawning a Broadway play and adding to their list of seasoned acquaintances (Marian Anderson, Langston Hughes, Paul Robeson, Cab Calloway) such spring chickens as Hillary Clinton. Born to a former slave whose owners broke the law by teaching him to read, the sisters got a solid education. North Carolina was paradise--despite the Rebbies--until Jim Crow reared its hideous head. The girls had loved to ride in the front of the trolley because the wind in their hair made them feel free, but one day the conductor sadly ordered them to the back. The family moved to New York, where Bessie became the town's second black woman dentist and Sadie the first black woman home-ec teacher. They befriended everyone who was anyone in the Harlem Renaissance (their brother won the 1925 Congressional primary there), pursued careers instead of husbands, and lived peacefully together, despite their differences. Sadie was more peaceable, like Booker T. Washington, while Bessie was a W.E.B. Du Bois-style militant.
They're funny: Bessie notes that blacks must be sharp to get ahead, "But if you're average and white, honey, you can go far. Just look at Dan Quayle. If that boy was colored he'd be washing dishes somewhere." And they are wise: Sadie says, "Life is short, and it's up to you to make it sweet." [via]
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Having Our Say: The Delaney Sister's First 100 Yearsby Elizabeth Delany, Sarah L. Delany, Amy Hill Hearth, Hill Hearth, Annie Elizabeth DelanyISBN 0385312520 (0-385-31252-0)
Softcover, Bantam Dell Pub Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Having Our Say: The Delaney Sister's First 100 Years'Book summary:"I never thought I'd see the day that the world would want to hear what two old Negro women have to say," says Bessie Delany. But Bessie and her sister, Sadie, born in 1893 and 1891, saw plenty, by eating a low-fat, high-vegetable diet and outliving the "old Rebby [rebel] boys" who once almost lynched Sadie. This remarkable memoir was a long-running bestseller, spawning a Broadway play and adding to their list of seasoned acquaintances (Marian Anderson, Langston Hughes, Paul Robeson, Cab Calloway) such spring chickens as Hillary Clinton. Born to a former slave whose owners broke the law by teaching him to read, the sisters got a solid education. North Carolina was paradise--despite the Rebbies--until Jim Crow reared its hideous head. The girls had loved to ride in the front of the trolley because the wind in their hair made them feel free, but one day the conductor sadly ordered them to the back. The family moved to New York, where Bessie became the town's second black woman dentist and Sadie the first black woman home-ec teacher. They befriended everyone who was anyone in the Harlem Renaissance (their brother won the 1925 Congressional primary there), pursued careers instead of husbands, and lived peacefully together, despite their differences. Sadie was more peaceable, like Booker T. Washington, while Bessie was a W.E.B. Du Bois-style militant.
They're funny: Bessie notes that blacks must be sharp to get ahead, "But if you're average and white, honey, you can go far. Just look at Dan Quayle. If that boy was colored he'd be washing dishes somewhere." And they are wise: Sadie says, "Life is short, and it's up to you to make it sweet." [via]
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The Illustrated Souls Of Black Folkby W. E. B. Du Bois, Eugene F. Provenzo, Manning MarableISBN 159451030X (1-59451-030-X)
Hardcover, Paradigm Pub
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Illustrated Souls Of Black Folk'Book summary:The problem of the twentieth century is the problem of the color-line . . . - W. E. B. Du Bois, 1903. This prophetic statement made by W. E. B. Du Bois over a century ago is from The Souls of Black Folk. One hundred years later, Souls remains the most important treatment of African-American life and culture published in the Twentieth century. Richly illustrated, this special edition of Du Bois's seminal work includes historical woodcuts and engravings, photos, and documents. Most of the photos, engravings, and documents are from the 19th and early 20th century and depict American slavery and its legacy, African-American life, and the prominent figures and events associated with the book's content. Assembled by Eugene F. Provenzo, Jr., this illustrated edition of The Souls of Black Folk also offers extensive annotations, commentary, and related materials from government, the media, advertising, and popular culture. Documents include: the Act Establishing the Freedman's Bureau; Booker T. Washington's Atlanta Exposition Speech; W. E. B. Du Bois's essay The Talented Tenth; Ida B. Wells-Barnett's The Lynch Law in Georgia; W. E. B. Du Bois's report The Negro in the Black Belt; Alexander Crummell's sermon Common Sense and Schooling; W. E. B. Du Bois's story The Black Man Brings His Gifts; Thomas W. Higginson's Negro Spirituals, and more. Annotated, Illustrated, Documentary Editions are a new series of books created by Eugene Provenzo and Paradigm Publishers, offering classic works in Literature, the Social Sciences, and the Humanities with extensive commentary, illustrations, and related documentary sources. [via]
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In Praise of Our Fathers and Our Mothers: A Black Family Treasury by Outstanding Authors and Artistsby Wade Hudson, Cheryl Willis HudsonISBN 0940975599 (0-940975-59-9)
Hardcover, Just Us Books Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'In Praise of Our Fathers and Our Mothers: A Black Family Treasury by Outstanding Authors and Artists'Book summary:Forty nine distinguished writers, artists and photographers contributed to this important anthology. A wonderful tribute to the enduring spirit of the black family and community, this is a book the entire family can enjoy reading together. Contributors include Newbery, Caldecott, Pulitzer, Coretta Scott King and other award-winning writers and visual artists --Gwendolyn Brooks, Ashley Bryan, Virginia Hamilton, Patricia and Fredrick McKissack, Leo and Diane Dillon, Floyd Cooper, Nikki Grimes, Tom Feelings, Haki Madhubuti, Javaka Steptoe, Walter Dean Myers and a host of others. [via]
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Invisible Manby Ralph EllisonISBN 0679732764 (0-679-73276-4)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Invisible Man'Book summary:A classic from the moment it first appeared in 1952, The Invisible Man chronicles the travels of its narrator, a young, nameless black man, as he moves through the hellish levels of American intolerance and cultural blindness. Searching for a context in which to know himself, he exists in a very peculiar state. "I am an invisible man," he says in his prologue, "When they approach me they see only my surroundings, themselves, or figments of their imagination--indeed, everything and anything except me." But this is hard-won self-knowledge, earned over the course of many years.
As the book gets started, the narrator is expelled from his Southern Negro college for inadvertently showing a white trustee the reality of black life in the south, including an incestuous farmer and a rural whorehouse. The college director chastises him: "Why, the dumbest black bastard in the cotton patch knows that the only way to please a white man is to tell him a lie! What kind of an education are you getting around here?" Mystified, the narrator moves north to New York City, where the truth, at least as he perceives it, is dealt another blow when he learns that his former headmaster's recommendation letters are, in fact, letters of condemnation.
What ensues is a search for what truth actually is, which proves to be supremely elusive. The narrator becomes a spokesman for a mixed-race band of social activists called "The Brotherhood" and believes he is fighting for equality. Once again, he realises he's been duped into believing what hethought was the truth, when in fact it is only another variation. Of the Brothers, he eventually discerns: "They were blind, bat blind, moving only by the echoed sounds of their voices. And because they were blind they would destroy themselves.... Here I thought they accepted me because they felt that colour made no difference, when in reality it made no difference because they didn't see either colour or men".
Invisible Man is certainly a book about race in America, andsadly enough, few of the problems it chronicles have disappeared even now. But Ellison's first novel transcends such a narrow definition. It's also a book about the human race stumbling down the path to identity, challenged and successful to varying degrees. None of us can ever be sure of the truth beyond ourselves, and possibly not even there. The world isa tricky place, and no one knows this better than the invisible man, who leaves us with these chilling, provocative words: "And it is this which frightens me: Who knows but that, on the lower frequencies, I speak for you?" --Melanie Rehak, Amazon.com [via]
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- Invisible Man: ISBN 0679601392 (0-679-60139-2)
Hardcover, Random House Inc - Invisible Man: ISBN 0451038142 (0-451-03814-2)
Softcover, New Amer Library - Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man: ISBN 067100901X (0-671-00901-X)
Softcover, Monarch Notes - Invisible Man: ISBN 0679723137 (0-679-72313-7)
Softcover, Random House Inc - The Invisible Man: ISBN 0375507914 (0-375-50791-4)
Hardcover, Random House Publishing Group - The Invisible Man: ISBN 0394525493 (0-394-52549-3)
Hardcover, Random House Publishing Group - Invisible Man: ISBN 0679600159 (0-679-60015-9)
Hardcover, Random House Inc - Invisible Man: ISBN 0679732764 (0-679-73276-4)
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- Invisible Man: ISBN 0679601392 (0-679-60139-2)
Life and Time of Frederick Douglassby Frederick DouglassISBN 1853265691 (1-85326-569-1)
Softcover, Wordsworth Edition
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Martin's Big Words: The Life of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.by Doreen Rappaport, Bryan CollierISBN 0786807148 (0-7868-0714-8)
Hardcover, Jump at the Sun
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My Brother Martin: A Sister Remembers Growing Up With The Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.by Christine King Farris, Chris SoentpietISBN 0689843887 (0-689-84388-7)
Softcover, Aladdin Paperbacks
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Narrative of the Life & Times of Frederick Douglassby Frederick DouglassISBN 1930097115 (1-930097-11-5)
Softcover, Lushena Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Narrative of the Life & Times of Frederick Douglass'Book summary:This Eloquent and dramatic autobiography of the early life of an American slave was first published in 1845, when its author was twenty eight years old & had just achieved his freedom. Although it was not uncommon during the era of American slavery for articulate Blacks who escaped to have their experiences published, Narraive Of The Life & Times Of Frederick Douglass is unique among these slave narratives because of Douglass's eloquent power of expression. [via]
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Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglassby Frederick DouglassISBN 1420922378 (1-4209-2237-8)
Softcover, Digireads.Com
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass'Book summary:Frederick Douglass (1817?-1895) was born into slavery by a slave mother and an unknown father. At the age of 8, he started to educate himself with the help of his master's wife. In 1838, he fled Baltimore for the North. There he soon became a noted author and speaker on slavery.
Douglass wrote three autobiographies, "Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass" (1845), "My Bondage and My Freedom" (1855) and "Life and Times of Frederick Douglass" (1881). Quiet Vision publishes all three plus the "Selected Works of Frederick Douglass", a collection of short works and speeches.
A man ahead of his time, in the 1840's he had to be dragged from the railroad cars reserved for whites. He also protested the dual standard of certain churches in having separate worship. [via]
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- Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass: ISBN 1576462862 (1-57646-286-2)
Softcover, Quiet Vision Pub - Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass: ISBN 0385007051 (0-385-00705-1)
Softcover, Bantam Dell Pub Group - Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass: ISBN 0486284999 (0-486-28499-9)
Softcover, Dover Pubns - Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass: ISBN 074348777X (0-7434-8777-X)
Softcover, Washington Square Pr - Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass: ISBN 0030554543 (0-03-055454-3)
Hardcover, Holt Rinehart & Winston - Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass: ISBN 1420922378 (1-4209-2237-8)
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- Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass: ISBN 1576462862 (1-57646-286-2)
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Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglassby Not AvailableISBN 1580495761 (1-58049-576-1)
Softcover, Prestwick House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass'Book summary:Born into a family of slaves, Frederick Douglass educated himself through sheer determination. His unconquered will to triumph over his circumstances makes his one of Americas best and most unlikely success stories. Douglass own account of his journey from slave to one of Americas great statesmen, writers, and orators is as fascinating as it is inspiring.
This Prestwick House Literary Touchstone Edition includes a glossary and readers notes to help the modern reader contend with Douglass nineteenth-century style and vocabulary. [via]
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Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass an American Slaveby Robert G. O'Meally, Frederick DouglassISBN 1593080417 (1-59308-041-7)
Softcover, Barnes & Noble
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Narrative Of The Life Of Frederick Douglas, An American Slave'Book summary:[via]Narrative of Frederick Douglass, An American Slave, by Frederick Douglass, is part of the Barnes & Noble Classics series, which offers quality editions at affordable prices to the student and the general reader, including new scholarship, thoughtful design, and pages of carefully crafted extras. Here are some of the remarkable features of Barnes & Noble Classics:New introductions commissioned from today's top writers and scholars Biographies of the authors Chronologies of contemporary historical, biographical, and cultural events Footnotes and endnotes Selective discussions of imitations, parodies, poems, books, plays, paintings, operas, statuary, and films inspired by the work Comments by other famous authors Study questions to challenge the reader's viewpoints and expectations Bibliographies for further reading Indices & Glossaries, when appropriateAll editions are beautifully designed and are printed to superior specifications; some include illustrations of historical interest. Barnes & Noble Classics pulls together a constellation of influencesbiographical, historical, and literaryto enrich each reader's understanding of these enduring works.No book except perhaps Uncle Toms Cabin had as powerful an impact on the abolitionist movement as Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass. But while Stowe wrote about imaginary characters, Douglasss book is a record of his own remarkable life.
Born a slave in 1818 on a plantation in Maryland, Douglass taught himself to read and write. In 1845, seven years after escaping to the North, he published Narrative, the first of three autobiographies. This book calmly but dramatically recounts the horrors and the accomplishments of his early yearsthe daily, casual brutality of the white masters; his painful efforts to educate himself; his decision to find freedom or die; and his harrowing but successful escape.
An astonishing orator and a skillful writer, Douglass became a newspaper editor, a political activist, and an eloquent spokesperson for the civil rights of African Americans. He lived through the Civil War, the end of slavery, and the beginning of segregation. He was celebrated internationally as the leading black intellectual of his day, and his story still resonates in ours.
Robert OMeally is Zora Neale Hurston Professor of Literature at Columbia University and the Director of Columbia Universitys Center for Jazz Studies. He wrote the introduction and notes to the Barnes & Noble classics edition of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.More editions of Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass an American Slave:
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slaveby Frederick DouglassISBN 0131166158 (0-13-116615-8)
Softcover, Pearson Prentice Hall
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglas: An American Slave'Book summary:Published in 1845, this autobiography powerfully details the life of the internationally famous abolitionist Frederick Douglass from his birth into slavery in 1818 to his escape to the North in 1838 - how he endured the daily physical and spiritual brutalities of his owners and drivers, how he learned to read and write, and how he grew into a man who could only live free or die. In his introduction, Houston A. Baker, Jr., discusses the slave narrative as a distinct American literary genre and points out its social, political, historical, and literary significance, past and present. [via]
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- Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave: ISBN 014039012X (0-14-039012-X)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA - Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass: An American Slave: ISBN 0192832506 (0-19-283250-6)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr - Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave: ISBN 0300087012 (0-300-08701-2)
Softcover, Yale Univ Pr - Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave: ISBN 0312257376 (0-312-25737-6)
Softcover, Bedford/st Martins - Narrative Of The Life Of Frederick Douglass: An American Slave: ISBN 0451529944 (0-451-52994-4)
Softcover, New Amer Library Classics - Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave: ISBN 0534521185 (0-534-52118-5)
Softcover, Wadsworth Pub Co - Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass: An American Slave: ISBN 0674601017 (0-674-60101-7)
Softcover, Harvard Univ Pr - Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave: ISBN 0312075316 (0-312-07531-6)
Softcover, St Martins Pr - Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass: An American Slave: ISBN 0451161882 (0-451-16188-2)
Softcover, New Amer Library - Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass: An American Slave: ISBN 0451526732 (0-451-52673-2)
Softcover, New Amer Library Classics - Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglas: An American Slave: ISBN 0131166158 (0-13-116615-8)
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- Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave: ISBN 014039012X (0-14-039012-X)
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Narrative Of The Life Of Frederick Douglass, An American Slave & Incidents In The Life Of A Slave Girlby Frederick Douglass, Harriet JacobsISBN 0345478231 (0-345-47823-1)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Narrative Of The Life Of Frederick Douglass, An American Slave & Incidents In The Life Of A Slave Girl'Book summary:This Modern Library Paperback Classics edition combines the two most important African American slave narratives into one volume.
Frederick Douglass's Narrative, first published in 1845, is an enlightening and incendiary text. Born into slavery, Douglass became the preeminent spokesman for his people during his life; his narrative is an unparalleled account of the dehumanizing effects of slavery and Douglass's own triumph over it. Like Douglass, Harriet Jacobs was born into slavery, and in 1861 she published Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, now recognized as the most comprehensive antebellum slave narrative written by a woman. Jacobs's account broke the silence on the exploitation of African American female slaves, and it remains crucial reading. These narratives illuminate and inform each other. This edition includes an incisive Introduction by Kwame Anthony Appiah and extensive annotations. [via]More editions of Narrative Of The Life Of Frederick Douglass, An American Slave & Incidents In The Life Of A Slave Girl:
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Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave : Written by Himselfby John W. Blassingame, John R. McKivigan, Peter P. Hinks, Frederick DouglassISBN 0300088310 (0-300-08831-0)
Hardcover, Yale University Press
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave : Written by Himself'Book summary:In 1845, just seven years after his escape from slavery, the young Frederick Douglass published this powerful account of his life in bondage and his triumph over oppression. The book, which marked the beginning of Douglass's career as an impassioned writer, journalist, and orator for the abolitionist cause, reveals the terrors he faced as a slave, the brutalities of his owners and overseers, and his harrowing escape to the North. It has become a classic of American autobiography. This edition of the book, based on the authoritative text that appears in Yale University Press's multivolume edition of the Frederick Douglass Papers, is the only edition of Douglass's Narrative designated, as an Approved Text by the Modern Language Association's Committee on Scholarly Editions. It includes a chronology of Douglass's life, a thorough introduction by the eminent Douglass scholar John Blassingame, historical notes, and reader responses to the first edition of 1845. [via]
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Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave, Written by Himself: Authoritative Text, Contexts, Criticismby Frederick Douglass, William L. Andrews, William S. McFeelyISBN 0393969665 (0-393-96966-5)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave, Written by Himself: Authoritative Text, Contexts, Criticism'Book summary:Upon its publication in 1845, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave, Written by Himself became an immediate best-seller.
In addition to its far-reaching impact on the antislavery movement in the United States and abroad, Douglasss fugitive slave narrative won recognition for its literary excellence, which has since earned it a place among the classics of nineteenth-century American autobiography. This Norton Critical Edition reprints the 1845 first edition of Douglasss compelling work. Explanatory annotations accompany the text.
A rich selection of "Contexts" provides the reader with contemporary perspectives. Included are the little-known preface that Douglass wrote in 1846 for the second Irish edition; a public exchange of letters between A. C. C. Thompson, a former slaveholder, and Douglass; three autobiographical portraits of Douglass's parents; Douglasss account of his escape from slavery, which he chose not to include in the 1845 Narrative; samples of Douglasss use of his slave experience in two of his most influential antislavery speeches; and reminiscences by James Monroe Gregory and Elizabeth Cady Stanton of Douglass as both orator and friend.
"Criticism" collects six essential assessments of the Narratives historical and literary aspects, by William S. McFeely, Peter Ripley, Robert B. Stepto, William L. Andrews, Houston A. Baker, Jr., and Deborah E. McDowell. A Chronology and a Selected Bibliography are included. [via]More editions of Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave, Written by Himself: Authoritative Text, Contexts, Criticism:
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Ralph Ellison's Invisible Manby Anthony S. Abbott, P. EllisonISBN 0812035208 (0-8120-3520-8)
Softcover, Barrons Educational Series Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man'Book summary:A guide to reading "Invisible Man" with a critical and appreciative mind encouraging analysis of plot, style, form, and structure. Also includes background on the author's life and times, sample tests, term paper suggestions, and a reading list. [via]
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Robo's Favorite Placesby Wade Hudson, Cathy JohnsonISBN 0940975858 (0-940975-85-8)
Softcover, Just Us Books Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Robo's Favorite Places'Book summary:When Robo is asked to name his favorite place, he can't decide. There is school, where he learns new ideas. The park, with the great climbing equipment. The swimming pool on hot days, and the skating rink in winter. The library, where Robo reads after school. The science museum with its interesting exhibits. How can he possibly decide? [via]
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Roll, Jordan, Roll: The World the Slaves Madeby Eugene D. GenoveseISBN 0394716523 (0-394-71652-3)
Softcover, Vintage Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Roll, Jordan, Roll: The World the Slaves Made'Book summary:A reevaluation of the master-slave relationship in American history. [via]
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Rootsby Alex Haley, Michael Eric DysonISBN 1593154496 (1-59315-449-6)
Softcover, Vanguard Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Roots'Book summary:From Publishers Weekly: Starred Review. It's hard to believe that it has been 30 years since Alex Haley's groundbreaking historical novel (based on his own family's history) was first published and became a worldwide phenomenon. Millions have read the story of the young African boy named Kunte Kinte, who in the late 1700s was kidnapped from his homeland and brought to the United States as a slave. Haley follows Kunte Kinte's family line over the next seven generations, creating a moving historical novel spanning 200 years..... Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved. [via]
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Rosaby Nikki Giovanni, Bryan CollierISBN 0805071067 (0-8050-7106-7)
Hardcover, Henry Holt & Co
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Amazon.com's Significant Seven
Nikki Giovanni graciously agreed to answer the questions we like to ask every author: the Amazon.com Significant Seven.
Q: What book has had the most significant impact on your life?
A: No single book. The poetry of Paul Laurence Dunbar, Langston Hughes, and Gwendolyn Brooks was an impact, however.
Q: You are stranded on a desert island with only one book, one CD, and one DVD--what are they?
A: Sula by Toni Morrison, Great American Spirituals, and The Godfather.
Q: What is the worst lie you've ever told?
A: "You're the best."
Q: Describe the perfect writing environment.
A: A cup of coffee, my rocking chair, the sun just rising through my left window.
Q: If you could write your own epitaph, what would it say?
A: "I tried."
Q: Who is the one person living or dead that you would like to have dinner with?
A: Lorraine Hansberry
Q: If you could have one superpower, what would it be?
A: I would fly.
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The Souls of Black Folkby W. E. B. Du BoisISBN 1406511196 (1-4065-1119-6)
Softcover, Dodo Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Souls of Black Folk'Book summary:William Edward Burghardt Du Bois (1868-1963) is the greatest of African American intellectuals--a sociologist, historian, novelist, and activist whose astounding career spanned the nation's history from Reconstruction to the civil rights movement. Born in Massachusetts and educated at Fisk, Harvard, and the University of Berlin, Du Bois penned his epochal masterpiece, The Souls of Black Folk, in 1903. It remains his most studied and popular work; its insights into Negro life at the turn of the 20th century still ring true.
With a dash of the Victorian and Enlightenment influences that peppered his impassioned yet formal prose, the book's largely autobiographical chapters take the reader through the momentous and moody maze of Afro-American life after the Emancipation Proclamation: from poverty, the neoslavery of the sharecropper, illiteracy, miseducation, and lynching, to the heights of humanity reached by the spiritual "sorrow songs" that birthed gospel and the blues. The most memorable passages are contained in "On Booker T. Washington and Others," where Du Bois criticizes his famous contemporary's rejection of higher education and accommodationist stance toward white racism: "Mr. Washington's programme practically accepts the alleged inferiority of the Negro races," he writes, further complaining that Washington's thinking "withdraws many of the high demands of Negroes as men and American citizens." The capstone of The Souls of Black Folk, though, is Du Bois' haunting, eloquent description of the concept of the black psyche's "double consciousness," which he described as "a peculiar sensation.... One ever feels this twoness--an American, a Negro; two souls, two thoughts, two unreconciled strivings; two warring ideals in one dark body, whose dogged strength alone keeps it from being torn asunder." Thanks to W.E.B. Du Bois' commitment and foresight--and the intellectual excellence expressed in this timeless literary gem--black Americans can today look in the mirror and rejoice in their beautiful black, brown, and beige reflections. --Eugene Holley Jr. [via]
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The Souls of Black Folkby Henry Louis Gates, W. E. B. Du Bois, Terri Hume OliverISBN 039397393X (0-393-97393-X)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Souls of Black Folk'Book summary:When it was published in 1903, The Souls of Black Folk revolutionized thinking about the experience of African Americans in the United States.This collection of essays on African American history, culture, and society probes fundamental issues of race and justice and documents Du Bois's conviction that the "soul" of the black community must be preserved and revered. The text reprinted here is that of the first book edition (1903). "Contexts" presents a fascinating collection of political and biographical documents related to the text. Also included are eighteen photographs that accompanied Du Bois's 1901 article "The Negro As He Really Is." "Criticism" offers thirteen contemporary and recent assessments of Du Bois and Souls, rounding out the picture of this enduring work. [via]
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W.E.B. Du Bois: Biography of a Race 1868-1919by David Levering LewisISBN 0805035680 (0-8050-3568-0)
Softcover, Henry Holt & Co
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› Find signed collectible books: 'W.E.B. Du Bois: Biography of a Race 1868-1919'Book summary:W.E.B. Du Bois--the first African-American to earn a doctorate at Harvard, one of the founders of the NAACP, visionary Pan-Africanist intellectual, and author of the seminal text The Souls of Black Folks--has not received due honor in his own country because of his radicalism in later life. Du Bois, hounded during the McCarthy era for his left wing beliefs, eventually gave up his American citizenship. But as a revered leader of black people worldwide, Du Bois merited a state funeral in Ghana when he died there in 1963. This first volume in Lewis's biography, winner of the 1994 Pulitzer Prize, details Du Bois' early life and work, up to the landmark Pan-African Congress following World War I, which brought "black liberation" to world attention. [via]
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The Watsons Go To Birmingham--1963by Christopher Paul CurtisISBN 0786264063 (0-7862-6406-3)
Softcover, Thorndike Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Watsons Go To Birmingham--1963'Book summary:The year is 1963, and self-important Byron Watson is the bane of his younger brother Kenny's existence. Constantly in trouble for one thing or another, from straightening his hair into a "conk" to lighting fires to freezing his lips to the mirror of the new family car, Byron finally pushes his family too far. Before this "official juvenile delinquent" can cut school or steal change one more time, Momma and Dad finally make good on their threat to send him to the deep south to spend the summer with his tiny, strict grandmother. Soon the whole family is packed up, ready to make the drive from Flint, Michigan, straight into one of the most chilling moments in America's history: the burning of the Sixteenth Avenue Baptist Church with four little girls inside.
Christopher Paul Curtis's alternately hilarious and deeply moving novel, winner of the Newbery Honor and the Coretta Scott King Honor, blends the fictional account of an African American family with the factual events of the violent summer of 1963. Fourth grader Kenny is an innocent and sincere narrator; his ingenuousness lends authenticity to the story and invites readers of all ages into his world, even as it changes before his eyes. Curtis is also the acclaimed author of Bud, Not Buddy, winner of the Newbery Medal. (Ages 9 to 12) --Emilie Coulter [via]
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Young Martin Luther King, Jr.: I Have a Dreamby Joanne Mattern, Allan EitzenISBN 0816725454 (0-8167-2545-4)
Softcover, Troll Communications L.L.C.
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