Pioneers in protest / by Lerone Bennett, Jr.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Bennett, Lerone, Jr., 1928-2018.

Contributor:

Gotham Book Mart Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

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

Series:

Pelican book

A Pelican Book

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

African Americans--Biography.

African Americans.

Abolitionists.

Genre:

Biographies.

Penn Provenance:

Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)

Banks, Joanna (donor) (Banks Collection copy)

Physical Description:

8 unnumbered pages, 263 pages, 1 unnumbered page : portraits ; 19 cm.

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Baltimore, Penguin Books, 1969.

Contents:

Rouse the Dawn: Crispus Attucks

The Stargazer: Benjamin Banneker

Colonial Catalyst: Prince Hall

God and Black Power: Richard Allen

Founders of the Black Press: Samuel E. Cornish and John B. Russwurm

The Fanon of the Nineteenth Century: David Walker

A Burning for a Burning: Nat Turner

White on Black: Wendell Phillips and William Lloyd Garrison

A Black Woman in Battle: Sojourner Truth

Guerilla in the Cottonfields: Harriet Tubman

Nay-Sayer of the Black Revolt: Henry Highland Garnet

God's Angry Man: John Brown

White Architects of Black Liberation: Charles Sumner and Taddeus Stevens

Father of the Protest Movement: Frederick Douglass

The Last Abolitionist: William Monroe Trotter

Black Renaissance: Marcus Garvey

Dusk of Dawn: W. E. B. Du Bois.

Notes:

Originally published 1968 by Johnson Publishing Co., Inc.

Includes index.

"Cover design by Gilda Kuhlman."

Local Notes:

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

ISBN:

14021142X

OCLC:

739421