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The Nigger Bible / by Robert H. deCoy.
LIBRA - Rare E185.615 .D46 1967 Banks copy
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- DeCoy, Robert H.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- African Americans.
- United States--Race relations.
- United States.
- Race relations.
- Penn Provenance:
- Banks, Joanna (donor) (Banks Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- 304 pages, 16 unnumbered pages ; 18 cm
- Distribution:
- Los Angeles, California : Distributed by All America Distributors Corporation.
- Other Title:
- Beginning point commencing a series of works toward creation of The Nigger Bible. First Book
- Place of Publication:
- Los Angeles, Caifornia : Holloway House Publishing Co., 1967.
- Contents:
- Preface / by Dick Gregory
- Foreword: The First Nigger Testament
- Chapter One: The Word Was Not for a Nigger
- Chapter Two: 1. Words in Testament to my Nigger Son; 2. The First Dictionary of Nigrite Words
- Chapter Three: Separation is "The Nigger Salvation"
- Chapter Four: What a Nigger needs most is a God
- Chapter Five: 1. Prelude to a Nigger Genesis; 2. deCoy's Song of Genesis
- Chapter Six: A Sermon to my Nigger Soul 1. The Prayer; 2. The Text
- Chapter Seven: What is this Power of Positive Thinking?
- Chapter Eight: History does not happen, it is made
- Chapter Nine: The departure of "The Northward Flight of the Niggers"
- Chapter Ten: Proverbs and Notes to my Nigger Son
- Chapter Eleven: Letters to the Nigger Children 1. Discard the "Act of Christening"; 2. Justice is a "White Woman"; 3. Epistles to my Nigger Beings; 4. Niggers, God, Church and Ministry
- Chapter Twelve: A Drama in Nigger Neurosis
- Chapter Thirteen: A Journey Back to the Mother City
- Chapter Fourteen: The Mardi Gras! 1. National Observance of the Nigger Dream; 2. Oh Come to a Mardi Gras Morning
- Chapter Fifteen: The Black Blueprint
- Chapter Sixteen: Two Parables 1. Dream of the Alabaster Daughter; 2. Super Spade at the Pearly Gates.
- Notes:
- "An Original Holloway House Edition."
- "First Printing 1967."
- First published by Blawhit, Inc., under title: A Nigger's Bible.
- "HH-150"--Cover.
- Publisher's advertisements: [8] pages at end.
- Local Notes:
- Kislak Center Banks Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2018 by Joanna Banks.
- OCLC:
- 185065206
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