| Title | Great documents in Black American history / edited by George Ducas, with Charles Van Doren ; introduction by C. Eric Lincoln.
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| Published | New York : Praeger Publishers, 1970.
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| Description | xv, 321 p. : ill., ports. ; 25 cm.
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| Series | Praeger University series
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| Formatted Note | Contents: Introduction / C. Eric Lincoln -- Some considerations on the keeping of Negroes / John Wollman -- Notes on the State of Virginia / Thomas Jefferson -- Copy of a letter from Benjamin Banneker to the Secretary of State with his answer -- Essay on Negro slavery / "Othello" -- The life of Olaudah Equiano, the African / Gustavus Vassa -- An address to the inhabitants of Philadelphia against the Colonization Society / James Forten (and Russell Perrott?) -- Appeal, in four articles, together with a preamble to the colored citizens of the world, but in particular, and very expressly to those of the United States of America / David Walker -- The confessions of Nat Turner, the leader of the late insurrection in Southampton, Va., as fully and voluntarily made to Thomas R. Gray -- Narrative of the life of Frederick Douglass, an American slave, written by himself -- The condition, elevation, emigration, and destiny of the colored people of the United States / Martin Robison Delany -- Speech at the Atlanta Exposition and what I am trying to do / Booker T. Washington -- Of Mr. Booker T. Washington and others and the Colored world within / W.E. Burghardt Du Bois -- Philosophy and opinions / Marcus Garvey -- The new Negro / Alain Locke -- The Negro artist and the racial mountain / Langston Hughes -- How "Bigger" was born / Richard Wright -- Brown et al. v. Board of Education of Topeka et al. / Earl Warren -- Black bourgeoisie / E. Franklin Frazier -- Letter from Birmingham Jail / Martin Luther King, Jr. -- My dungeon shook : letter to my nephew on the one hundredth anniversary of the Emancipation / James Baldwin -- Speech at the Harvard Law School Forum of December 16, 1964 / Malcolm X -- The legacy of Malcolm X, and the coming of age of the Black nation / LeRoi Jones.
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| Subjects | African Americans -- History -- Sources.
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| Other Authors | Ducas, George.
Van Doren, Charles Lincoln, 1926-
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| LC Card Number | 73-96293 |
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| | WRHS Research Library: E 184.6 D824
mq239208: LC class, closed stacks [status: NON-CIRCULATING] |
| [Record 143836] |
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