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Black genius
- Title
- Black genius / Dick Russell.
- Author
- Russell, Dick.
- Publication
- New York : Carroll & Graf, 1998.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person. | Text | Use in library | Sc E 98-296 | Schomburg Center - Research & Reference |
Details
- Description
- xii, 497 p. : ports.; 25 cm.
- Subjects
- Contents
- Ancestors : Ellington's mentor, Will Marion Cook -- Albert Murray and Louis Armstrong -- The craft of Ralph Ellison -- From Duke Ellington to Wynton Marsalis -- Variations on a theme : Romare Bearden, artist -- Ancestors : Meta Warrick Fuller, sculptor -- The painters : Loïs Mailou Jones and Jacob Lawrence -- All the world's their stage : Paul Robeson and Ira Aldridge -- Gordon Parks : a lens on humanity -- Ancestors : Mary McLeod Bethune, educator -- A teacher's mission : Elma Lewis -- The philosophers : Cornel West and the Du Bois/Locke legacy -- Toni Morrison : Nobel Prize for literature -- Timeless voices, parallel realities : James Baldwin and Frederick Douglass -- Ancestors--Lewis Latimer and the early Black inventors -- The laser physicist and the computer wizard : Earl and Alan Shaw -- Bob Moses and the Algebra Project -- Ancestors--the astronomer/surveyor : Benjamin Banneker -- The architects : Charles and Cheryl McAfee -- Ancestors--the physicians : Louis Tompkins Wright and Jane Cooke Wright -- Byllye Avery and the National Black Women's Health Project -- Ancestors--Sojourner Truth and the nineteenth-century visionaries -- Howard Thurman, Benjamin Mays, and the Martin Luther King legacy.
- Call Number
- Sc E 98-296
- ISBN
- 0786704551
- LCCN
- 97034048
- OCLC
- 38442998
- Author
- Russell, Dick.
- Title
- Black genius / Dick Russell.
- Imprint
- New York : Carroll & Graf, 1998.
- Edition
- 1st Carroll & Graf ed.
- Local Note
- Author's autograph presentation copy to the Schomburg Center.
- Research Call Number
- Sc E 98-296