Great Negroes : past and present / by Russell L. Adams ; illustrations by Eugene Winslow ; David P. Ross, Jr., editor.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Adams, Russell L.

Contributor:

Winslow, Eugene, illustrator.

Ross, David P., Jr., editor.

Joanna Banks Collection of African American Books (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

African Americans--Biography--Juvenile literature.

African Americans.

African Americans--Biography.

Black people--Biography--Juvenile literature.

Black people.

Africans--Biography--Juvenile literature.

Africans.

Black people--Biography.

Genre:

Biographies.

Penn Provenance:

Banks, Joanna (bookplate) (donor) (Banks Collection copy)

Physical Description:

x, 182 pages : illustrations (some color), maps, portraits ; 29 cm

Place of Publication:

Chicago : Afro-Am Publishing Company, 1964.

Contents:

I. Contributors to Early History: Out of the Mists of Time

II. In Early American History: Heralds of a New Day

III. From the Civil War Forward: They Lift Their Heads on High

IV. Science and Industry: And They Studied Man and Nature

V. Business Pioneers: Having Been Faithful with a Few Talents

VI. Religion: A Balm in Gilead

VII. Leaders and Spokesmen: Voices for the Multitude

VIII. Education: They Carried the Lamp

IX. Literature: Tellers of Troubled Tales

X. The Theatre: And the World's a Stage

XI. Music: Lift Every Voice and Sing

XII. The Visual Arts: Every Eye a Witness

XIII. Modern Africa: And They Shall Sing a New Song.

Notes:

Jacket illustration by James Buckley.

Text printed in two columns.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 178-179) and index.

Local Notes:

Kislak Center Banks Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2018 by Joanna Banks.

Banks Collection copy has dust jacket retained.

Banks Collection copy has bookplate of Joanna Banks.

OCLC:

1175504