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Cavalcade; Negro American writing from 1760 to the present. / Edited by Arthur P. Davis, Saunders Redding.
LIBRA Rare PS508.N3 D27 1971 Banks copy
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Davis, Arthur Paul, 1904-1996, compiler.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- American literature--African American authors.
- American literature.
- American literature--African American authors--History and criticism.
- African Americans--Intellectual life--20th century.
- African Americans.
- African Americans--Intellectual life.
- African Americans--Intellectual life--19th century.
- African Americans--Intellectual life--18th century.
- African Americans--Literary collections.
- African Americans in literature.
- Genre:
- Literary collections.
- Literature.
- Penn Provenance:
- Banks, Joanna (bookplate) (donor) (stamp) (Banks Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- xviii, 905 pages, 5 unnumbered pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Boston, Houghton Mifflin Company, 1971.
- Contents:
- 1. Pioneer Writers: 1760-1830. Phillis Wheatley ; Gustavus Vasa ; George Moses Horton ; David Walker
- 2. Freedom Fighters: 1830-1865. William Wells Brown ; Martin R. Delany ; Sojourner Truth ; Frederick Douglass ; Frances Ellen Watkins (Harper) ; Charlotte L. Forten
- 3, Accommodation and Protest: 1865-1910. William Still ; Elizabeth Keckley ; George Washington Williams ; Booker Taliaferro Washington ; Sutton Elbert Griggs ; Charles Waddell Chesnutt ; James David Corrothers ; Kelly Miller ; Paul Laurence Dunbar ; William Stanley Beaumont Braithwaite
- 4. The New Negro Renaissance and Beyond: 1910-1954. William Edward Burghardt Du Bois ; James Weldon Johnson ; Anne Spencer ; Alain LeRoy Locke ; Jean Toomer ; Claude McKay ; Langston Hughes ; Countee Cullen ; Arna Bontemps ; Rudolph Fisher ; Jessie R. Fauset ; May Miller ; Melvin B. Tolson ; Waring Cuney ; William Attaway ; Robert E. Hayden ; Owen Dodson ; Sterling A. Brown ; Arthur P. Davis ; Saunders Redding ; Zora Neale Hurston ; Richard Wright ; Chester B. Himes ; William Demby ; Ann Petry ; Gwendolyn Brooks ; Margaret A. Walker ; Ralph Ellison
- 5. Integration versus Black Nationalism: 1954 to the Present. James Baldwin ; Ulysses Lee ; Paule Marshall ; Samuel W. Allen (Paul Vesey) ; Ossie Davis ; LeRoi Jones ; Ed Bullins ; John A. Williams ; William Melvin Kelley ; Ernest J. Gaines ; Claude Brown ; Malcolm X ; Faith Berry ; New Poets: Lawrence Benford; Margaret Danner; Mari Evans; William J. Harris; Lance Jeffers; Alicia Loy Johnson; Percy Edward Johnston; Naomi Long Madgett; Oliver Pitcher; Dudley Randall; Jon Woodson; Don L. Lee ; Martin Luther King, Jr. ; Larry Neal ; Sonia Sanchez ; Nathan A. Scott, Jr. ; Eldridge Cleaver ; Harold Cruse.
- Notes:
- Pictorial cloth cover.
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 875-897) and index.
- Local Notes:
- Kislak Center Banks Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2018 by Joanna Banks.
- Banks Collection copy has bookplate of Joanna Banks.
- Banks Collection copy has multiple stamps for name and address of Joanna Banks.
- Banks Collection copy has article by Arthur P. Davis from Washington Post Magazine laid in.
- Banks Collection copy has marginal marks.
- ISBN:
- 039504345X
- OCLC:
- 116423
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