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Born Black / by Gordon Parks. With photographs by the author.
LIBRA Rare E185.96 .P36 1971 Banks copy
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Parks, Gordon, 1912-2006.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- African Americans--Biography.
- African Americans.
- African Americans--Social conditions.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Penn Provenance:
- Banks, Joanna (donor) (Banks Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- 192 pages : photographs ; 24 cm
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Philadelphia, J. B. Lippincott Company, [1971]
- Contents:
- Death at San Quentin
- The Black Muslims
- The Death of Malcolm X
- Redemption of a Champion
- Stokely Carmichael
- The Fontenelle Family
- On the Death of Martin Luther King, Jr.
- The Black Panthers and the Police
- Papa Rage: A Visit with Eldridge Cleaver
- Postscript.
- Notes:
- Illustrated lining papers.
- "Composed not only of articles commissioned by 'Life' magazine, but also material which appears here for the first time."--Dustjacket.
- Local Notes:
- Kislak Center Banks Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2018 by Joanna Banks.
- Banks Collection copy: dustjacket retained.
- OCLC:
- 138765
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