The Black book / [compiled by] Middleton Harris ; with the assistance of Morris Levitt, Roger Furman, Ernest Smith.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Harris, M. A., 1908-1977, compiler.

Contributor:

Levitt, Morris, 1938- editor.

Furman, Roger, 1924-1983, editor.

Smith, Ernest, editor.

Morrison, Toni, 1931-2019, compiler.

Cosby, Bill, 1937- writer of introduction.

Ribik, Jack, book designer, bookjacket designer.

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

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

African Americans--History--Miscellanea.

African Americans.

History.

Genre:

Trivia and miscellanea.

History.

Penn Provenance:

Banks, Joanna (donor) (Banks Collection copy)

Physical Description:

8 unnumbered pages, 198 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of color plates : illustrations (some color), maps, portraits, plans, music, forms ; 30 cm

Edition:

First Edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : Random House, 1974.

Summary:

Copiously illustrated scrap-book on folk culture of Black people from early days of slavery through the present. Includes photographs, illustrations, advertisements, plans, form documents, sheet music, and more all printed in facsimile.

Notes:

With an introduction by Bill Cosby.

Book and jacket design by Jack Ribik.

Toni Morrison, a senior editor at Random House at the time of the book's publication, is the uncredited compiler of this book, which includes an uncredited poem by her on the jacket flaps. The 35th anniversary edition (2009) prints the poem as a preface and credits Morrison as the author. Her mother appears on the jacket cover.--See "Ghosts in the House: How Toni Morrison fostered a generation of black writers" in the October 27, 2003 issue of the New Yorker.

Local Notes:

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

Banks Collection copy has newspaper article on The Black Bood and advertisement for series of educational posters laid in.

Other Format:

Online version: Harris, M.A., 1908- Black book.

ISBN:

039448388X

9780394483887

0394706226

9780394706221

OCLC:

640804