Autobiography of a People: Three Centuries of African American History Told by Those Who Lived It by Boyd, Herb

Autobiography of a People: Three Centuries of African American History Told by Those Who Lived It (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780385492799)

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Autobiography of a People: Three Centuries of African American History Told by Those Who Lived It by Boyd, Herb

Autobiography of a People: Three Centuries of African American History Told by Those Who Lived It

$26.00
Autobiography of a People: Three Centuries of African American History Told by Those Who Lived It by Boyd, Herb

Autobiography of a People: Three Centuries of African American History Told by Those Who Lived It

$26.00
Format: Paperback
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Autobiography of a People is an insightfully assembled anthology of eyewitness accounts that traces the history of the African American experience. From the Middle Passage to the Million Man March, editor Herb Boyd has culled a diverse range of voices, both famous and ordinary, to creat a unique and compelling historical portrait:

Benjamin Banneker on Thomas Jefferson
Old Elizabeth on spreading the Word
Frederick Douglass on life in the North
W.E.B. Du Bois on the Talented Tenth
Matthew Henson on reaching the North Pole
Harriot Jacobs on running away
James Cameron on escaping a mob lyniching
Alvin Ailey on the world of dance
Langston Hughes on the Harlem Renaissance
Curtis Morriw on the Korean War
Max ROach on "jazz" as a four-letter word
LL Cool J on rap
Mary Church Terrell on the Chicago World's Fair
Rev. Bernice King on the future of Black America

And many others.

Author: Herb Boyd
ISBN-10: 0385492790
ISBN-13: 9780385492799
Publisher: Knopf Publishing Group
Language: English
Published: 12/26/2000
Pages: 576
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.94lbs
Size: 7.94h x 5.34w x 1.02d
By Herb Boyd
By Herb Boyd
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Herb Boyd is the coeditor with Robert Allen of Brotherman--The Odyssey of Black Men in America and the author of Down the Glory Road and Black Panthers for Beginners. An award-winning journalist, his articles have appeared in the Amsterdam News, Black Scholar, Code, Down Beat, Emerge, Metro Times (Detroit), and The Source. He is the national editor of "The Black World Today," an online publication, and he teaches at the College of New Rochelle and New York University.

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