The journey / edited by Alma Murray and Robert Thomas ; illustrated by Diane and Leo Dillon, Tom Feelings, George Ford, and Alvin Hollingsworth.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Murray, Alma, compiler.

Contributor:

Thomas, Robert, compiler.

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

Series:

Scholastic black literature series

Scholastic Black literature series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

American literature--African American authors.

American literature.

Penn Provenance:

Banks, Joanna (donor) (Banks Collection copy)

Physical Description:

192 pages : illustrations, music ; 20 cm.

Place of Publication:

New York : Scholastic Book Services, 1970.

Contents:

I Wonder Why? / Tom Pool

Part One: What Color is Black? What Color is Black? / Barbara D. Mahone; My People / Langston Hughes; Black Power / Raymond Patterson; Dream Variation / Langston Hughes; I, Too, Sing America / Langston Hughes; The Black Racists / Dick Gregory; Fishbelly's Discovery / Richard Wright; The Visitation / Sun-Ra; The Black Finger / Angelina W. Grimke

Par Two: Heritage. Heritage (first stanza) / Countee Cullen; The Drinking Gourd (Act I) / Lorraine Hansberry; Slave Among Slaves (From Up From Slavery) / Booker T. Washington; To Egypt / Gloria Davis; Africa (Translated by Ulli Beier) / David Diop

Part Three: The Closed Door. The Closed Door / David N. Peery; Outcast / Claude McKay; Incident / Countee Cullen; Merry-Go-Round / Langston Hughes; No Way Out (From Ghetto to Glory) / Bob Gibson with Phil Pepe; I Couldn't Hear Nobody Pray / Anonymous; The Talented Tenth (From Story of the Negro) / Arna Bontemps; My Soul is Full of Color (From The Big Sea) / Langston Hughes

Part Four: Black Pride. Enemy Territory (From Dancers on the Shore) / William Melvin Kelley; Color / Langston Hughes; A Love Song for Seven Little Boys Called Sam / C. H. Fuller, Jr.; The Boy Who Painted Christ Black / John Henrik Clarke; The Emancipation of George-Hector (A Colored Turtle) / Mari E. Evans; Not Any More / Eloise Greenfield.

Notes:

"Published in cooperation with Los Angeles City Schools."

Includes bibliographical references (pages 188-192).

Local Notes:

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

Banks Collection copy is "1st printing, November 1970".

Other Format:

Online version: Murray, Alma. Journey.

OCLC:

1167381