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Ebony angels : a collection of African-American poetry and prose / compiled by Faith Jaycox ; illustrations by Terrance Cummings.
LIBRA Rare PS508.N3 E26 1996 Banks copy
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LIBRA PS508.N3 E26 1996
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- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- American literature--African American authors.
- American literature.
- African Americans--Literary collections.
- African Americans.
- American literature--20th century.
- Genre:
- Literary collections.
- Poetry.
- Literature.
- Penn Provenance:
- Banks, Joanna (donor) (Banks Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- 96 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Crown Trade Paperbacks, ©1996.
- Summary:
- A collection of poetry and prose, filled with the spirituality of angels, by African-American literary figures, religious leaders, social commentators, and political activists.
- Contents:
- Maya Angelou
- James Weldon Johnson
- Ann Plato
- Sterling Brown
- Paul Laurence Dunbar
- Mary Weston Fordham
- George Moses Horton
- James Madison Bell
- Gerald Barrax
- Lucille Clifton
- Countee Cullen
- W.E.B. Du Bois
- Henry Highland Garnet
- Elymas Payson Rogers
- Frederick Douglass
- Harriet Jacobs
- Frances E.W. Harper
- Clara Ann Thompson
- Alfred Gibbs Campbell
- Jupiter Hammon
- Phillis Wheatley
- Julia Foote
- Jarena Lee
- Rita Dove
- John Jea
- Fenton Johnson
- Josephine D. Heard
- Charlotte L. Forten Grimke
- Jonathan Henderson Brooks
- Robert Hayden
- Zora Neale Hurston
- Langston Hughes
- Bessie Smith
- James Monroe Whitfield
- Daniel A. Payne
- Amiri Baraka
- Joseph Cephas Holly
- Margaret T. Burroughs
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
- Noah Calwell Cannon
- James Edwin Campbell
- Maria Stewart
- Mtozake Shange
- E.C.L. Adams
- Toni Morrison
- May Miller
- James Mackay.
- Notes:
- "Copyright ©1996 by Faith Jaycox"--verso of title page.
- "Design by Nancy Kenmore"--verso of title page.
- Local Notes:
- Kislak Center Banks Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2018 by Joanna Banks.
- ISBN:
- 0517887460
- OCLC:
- 34894403
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