The shaping of Black America / Lerone Bennett, Jr. ; illustrated by Charles White.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Bennett, Lerone, Jr., 1928-2018.

Contributor:

White, Charles, 1918-1979, illustrator.

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

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

African Americans--History.

African Americans.

History.

United States--Race relations.

United States.

Race relations.

Penn Provenance:

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

Physical Description:

12, 356 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm

Place of Publication:

Chicago : Johnson Publishing Company, Inc., 1975.

Contents:

Part One: Foundation. The First Generation; White Servitude; The Road Not Taken; Red and Black; The Black Founding Fathers; The World of the Slave; Jubilee

Part Two: Directions. System; The Black Worker; Money, Merchants and Markets.

Notes:

"Book design and cover by Norman L. Hunter. Cover illustration by Charles White."

"The ten chapters of the present work appeared originally in somewhat abridged version, as articles in Ebony Magazine, under the series title The Making of Black America, between June 1969 and February 1974. Each article has been rewritten, altered or added to by the author for this book."

Includes bibliographical references (pages 343-349) and index.

Local Notes:

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

Banks Collection copy: dustjacket retained.

Banks Collection copy has embossed stamp "JB The Library of Joanna Banks".

ISBN:

0874850711 :

OCLC:

6028288