Tracing the role of major African American writers and thinkers over two hundred years, a group autobiography spotlights well-known and less famous contributors
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V. P. Franklin is professor of history and political science at Drexel University in Philadelphia.
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Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Tracing the role of major African-American writers and thinkers over two hundred years, a group autobiography spotlights well-known and less famous contributors, including Richard Wright, James Weldon Johnson, James Baldwin, and Ida Wells Barnett. 12,500 first printing. Former library book. Mylar protector included. Please note the image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item. Ex-Library. Seller Inventory # 123485082
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Condition: FINE. First printing. Ten provocative essays in which historian Franklin examines the intellectual legacy of the autobiographies of 12 preeminent African Americans, emphasizing historical importance over literary analysis. He includes contextual summaries of the work and roles of people like reformer Ida B. Wells-Barnett, who fought lynching; novelist and key member of the Harlem Renaissance James Weldon Johnson, who emphasized the worth of black folk traditions, and novelist James Baldwin, whose confessional works presaged a new crop of intimate memoirs in the 1960s and '70s. Two chapters offer useful comparisons of novelists Richard Wright and Zora Neale Hurston, and poets Gwendolyn Brooks and Amiri Baraka." Other writers covered are the 19th century Episcopalian missionary and scholar, Alexander Crummell; New York politician Adam Clayton Powell Jr.; Communist Party member Harry Haywood who argued for the revolutionary potential of the Black working class; W. E. B. Du Bois and Malcolm X. Photographs, notes, index. 464 pp. Fine in fine dust jacket. Seller Inventory # 92941