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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.
Contributor:
Gregory, Dick, writer of preface.
Joanna Banks Collection of African American Books (University of Pennsylvania)
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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