Bondage, freedom, and beyond; the prose of Black Americans. / Edited by Addison Gayle, Jr.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Gayle, Addison, Jr., 1932-1991, compiler.

Contributor:

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

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

American prose literature--African American authors.

American prose literature.

African Americans--History--Sources.

African Americans.

History.

African Americans--Literary collections.

Genre:

Sources.

Literary collections.

Penn Provenance:

Banks, Joanna (donor) (Banks Collection copy)

Physical Description:

xiii pages, 1 unnumbered page, 154 pages ; 21 cm

Place of Publication:

Garden City, New York, Zenith Books, 1971.

Contents:

The Dark Wings of Slavery. Your grievances are many / by Henry Highland Garnet. Every slave has the right to be free / by Charles Lenox Remond. We had to occupy a seat apart / by Josephine Brown. Slavery is the disease and its abolition is essential / by Frederick Douglass. Well, after freedom ... / by Henry Guidon. Sherman's men / by Frank A. Patterson. To my old master / by Jourdon Anderson. The Black man must leave the South / by Richard T. Greener.

II. To Secure This Freedom. The masses of us are to live by the production of our hands / by Booker T. Washington.. The people did not choose Mr. Washington as a leader / by Kelly Miller. Of course we will not accept one jot or tittle less than full manhood rights / by W. E. B. Du Bois. The new Negro / by Marcus Garvey. The reasons for this state of mind / by A. Philip Randolph. Harlem, the beautiful years / by Arna Bontemps. I was in the South where neither law nor tradition was on my side / by Richard Wright. Son, you really can't laugh about it by Ralph Ellison. It's all complicated up / by J. Saunders Redding. Go South, young man, Go South / by Langston Hughes

III. The Challenge of the Hour. We have passed the Point of No Return / by Eslanda Robeson. A Declaration of Independence / by Malcolm X. Where do we go from here? / by William Strickland. The Sickness of America, an editorial / by Daniel H. Watts from Liberator magazine. I Have Always wanted Black Power / by Addison Gayle, Jr. The Time to Speak Out is Now, an editorial / from The Crisis. Yes, We Shall Overcome / by Martin Luther King, Jr.

Notes:

"Zenith Books Edition: 1971."

"Title page and part title page design by Fred Troller."

"Z19"

Local Notes:

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

OCLC:

126261