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Dec 26, 2000 | ISBN 9780385492799 Buy
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Dec 26, 2000 | ISBN 9780385492799
Jun 30, 2010 | ISBN 9780307754936
Autobiography of a People is an insightfully assembled anthology of eyewitness accounts that traces the history of the African American experience. From the Middle Passage to the Million Man March, editor Herb Boyd has culled a diverse range of voices, both famous and ordinary, to creat a unique and compelling historical portrait:Benjamin Banneker on Thomas JeffersonOld Elizabeth on spreading the Word Frederick Douglass on life in the North W.E.B. Du Bois on the Talented Tenth Matthew Henson on reaching the North Pole Harriot Jacobs on running awayJames Cameron on escaping a mob lynichingAlvin Ailey on the world of danceLangston Hughes on the Harlem Renaissance Curtis Morriw on the Korean WarMax ROach on “jazz” as a four-letter wordLL Cool J on rapMary Church Terrell on the Chicago World’s FairRev. Bernice King on the future of Black AmericaAnd many others.
HERB BOYD is the national editor at The Black World Today, an online publication. He currently teaches African and African-American history at the College of New Rochelle in Manhattan. Boyd is also coeditor with Robert Allen of the American Book… More about Herb Boyd
“A book of historical truth spoken loud and clear, as none of us have ever quite heard it before.”-Black Issues Book Review“A superbly crafted collection.”-QBR“An original and triumphant collection of first-person narratives from autobiographies, memoirs, journal writings, correspondence, and slave narratives… The number of selections makes for an impressive and eclectic chorus.”-Library Journal
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