Prayers for dark people / W. E. B. Du Bois ; edited by Herbert Aptheker.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Du Bois, W. E. B. (William Edward Burghardt), 1868-1963.

Contributor:

Aptheker, Herbert, 1915-2003, editor.

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

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Prayers.

African American students--Prayers and devotions--English.

African American students.

Prayers and devotions.

Pastoral prayers.

Penn Provenance:

Banks, Joanna (donor) (Banks Collection copy)

Physical Description:

xi pages, 1 unnumbered page, 75 pages, 2 unnumbered pages ; 22 cm

Place of Publication:

Amherst : The University of Massachusetts Press, 1980.

Summary:

"This beautifully prepared volume contains seventy-one short prayers Du Bois wrote between 1909 and the spring of 1910 for the pupils of the primary and secondary schools and the University students at Atlanta University. Herbert Aptheker prepared them for publication from the original scraps of paper and has written a thoughtful, illuminating, and deeply felt introduction". -- Sage Race Relations Abstracts

Notes:

"A Creed, a Litany and Divers Prayers Set Down for The Worship of the Darker Americans"--Preliminary page [ii].

Local Notes:

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

ISBN:

0870233025

OCLC:

6087554