The best of the Brownies' book / edited by Dianne Johnson-Feelings ; introduction by Marian Wright Edelman.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Johnson-Feelings, Dianne, editor.

Machlin, Loraine, book designer.

Oxford University Press (U.S.), publisher.

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

Series:

Iona and Peter Opie library of children's literature

The Iona and Peter Opie library of children's literature

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

African American children.

African Americans--Juvenile literature.

African Americans.

Penn Provenance:

Banks, Joanna (donor) (Banks Collection copy)

Physical Description:

351 pages : illustrations ; 27 cm.

Place of Publication:

New York : Oxford University Press, 1996.

Summary:

Stories and articles from the 1920s children's magazine "The Brownies' Book" capture the Afro-American experience.

Contents:

Pride of my people

Biographies of black people: to be great, heroic, and beautiful

Everyday living: growing up in 1920

Tell me a story

For all little folk: an international community

For the children of the sun.

Notes:

Includes indexes.

"Copyright ©1996 by Oxford University Press, Inc. Design: Loraine Machlin"--verso of title page.

Local Notes:

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

Banks Collection copy has dust jacket retained.

ISBN:

0195099419

OCLC:

32590916