Cry at birth / collected and edited by the Bookers: Merrel Daniel Booker, Sr., Erma Barbour Booker, Merrel Daniel Booker, Jr., Sue Booker.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Booker, Merrel Daniel, compiler.

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

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

American literature--African American authors.

American literature.

African Americans--Literary collections.

African Americans.

American literature--20th century.

Genre:

Literary collections.

Literature.

Penn Provenance:

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

Physical Description:

xviii pages, 2 unnumbered pages, 172 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm

Edition:

First Edition.

Place of Publication:

New York, McGraw-Hill Book Company, 1971.

Contents:

Part One. Born Black

Part Two. In the Ghetto Maze

Part Three. Teachers, I've Tried

Part Four. Who Knows Me?-I Don't

Part Five. Love

Part Six. Life-Death-With Tones and Half Tones Between

Part Seven. A Sick Society

Part Eight. Black Comedy-A Different Way of Dying

Part Nine. Requiem for Old Black Joe.

Notes:

Jacket design by Robert Aulicino. Jacket illustration by William H. Harris. Photos: Vista Studio.

"The selections reflect the thoughts and feelings of gang leaders, loners, talented and gifted students, as well of those of the simply average young person. Except for publication in school newspapers and magazines, their voices have not been heard."--Dust jacket.

Contains index.

Local Notes:

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

Banks Collection copy has dust jacket retained.

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

ISBN:

0070064962

OCLC:

157262