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African American Experience: Black History and Culture Through Speeches, Letters, Editorials, Poems, Songs, and Stories

African American Experience: Black History and Culture Through Speeches, Letters, Editorials, Poems, Songs, and Stories

Wright, Kai

Paperback

Fiction AnthologiesBlack American Studies

ISBN10: 1579127738
ISBN13: 9781579127732
Publisher: Black Dog & Leventhal Publishers
Published: Jan 1 2009
Pages: 736
Weight: 2.81
Height: 1.85 Width: 7.00 Depth: 9.96
Language: English
This wide-ranging archive, capturing more than four centuries of African American history and culture in one essential volume, is at once poignant, painful, celebratory, and inspiring.

The African American Experience is a one-of-a-kind and absolutely riveting collection of more than 300 letters, speeches, articles, petitions, poems, songs, and works of fiction tracing the course of black history in America from the first slaves brought over in the 16th century to the events of the present day. All aspects of African American history and daily life are represented here, from the days of abolition and the Civil War to the Civil Rights movement and the current times. Organized chronologically, here are writings from the great political leaders including Frederick Douglass, Martin Luther King, Jr., Malcolm X, Jesse Jackson, and Barack Obama; literary giants including Langston Hughes, Gwendolyn Brooks, Toni Morrison, Alice Walker, James Baldwin, and bell hooks; scholars such as Cornel West and Henry Louis Gates, Jr.; artists including Miles Davis, Billie Holiday, Wynton Marsalis, Run-DMC, the Sugar Hill Gang, and Chuck Berry; athletes such as Muhammad Ali and Jackie Robinson; and many more.

A new introduction by Kai Wright provides overall context, and introductory material for each document delineates its significance and role in history. This edition features all new and updated material.

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