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Black perspectives / edited by Alma Murray and Robert Thomas ; illustrated with photography by Hugh Bell and Anthony Barboza and Fine Art by Leading Black Fine Artists.
LIBRA - Rare PS508.N3 M77 1971 Banks copy
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- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Scholastic black literature series
- Scholastic Black literature series
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- American literature--African American authors.
- American literature.
- American poetry--African American authors.
- American poetry.
- American fiction--African American authors.
- American fiction.
- American drama--African American authors.
- American drama.
- African Americans--Civil rights--History--20th century.
- African Americans.
- African Americans--Civil rights.
- History.
- United States--Race relations--History--20th century.
- United States.
- Race relations.
- Genre:
- History.
- Penn Provenance:
- Banks, Joanna (donor) (Banks Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- 219 pages, 5 unnumbered pages : illustrations, portraits ; 20 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Scholastic Book Services, 1971.
- Contents:
- Democracy / Langston Hughes
- Part One: We Have Been Believers. We Have Been Believers / Margaret Walker; God Bless America / John O. Killens; Mother to Son / Langston Hughes; America / Claude McKay
- Part Two: Shades of the Black Community. Revolt of the Evil Fairies / Ted Poston; Five on the Black Hand Side / Charlie L. Russell; Mister Toussan / Ralph Ellison; A Poem to Complement Other Poems / Don L. Lee; Black Bourgeoisie / LeRoi Jones
- Part Three: Liberation Road. "Fingers Separate" "Fingers Clenched"; Booker T and W.E.B. / Dudley Randall; Initial Reactions to the Assassination of Malcolm X / Eldridge Cleaver; Tableau / Countee Cullen; The New Integrationist / Don L. Lee; I Have a Dream / Martin Luther King, Jr.; A Note of Humility / Arna Bontemps; If We Must Die / Claude McKay; A Black Value System / Imamu Amiri Baraka; The Failure of Black Separatism / Bayard Rustin.
- Notes:
- Cover: Reunion Collage by Romare Bearden.
- "Published in cooperation with Los Angeles City Schools"--Cover.
- Local Notes:
- Kislak Center Banks Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2018 by Joanna Banks.
- Banks Collection copy is "1st printing December 1971".
- Other Format:
- Online version: Black perspectives.
- OCLC:
- 1167328
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