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Bridging horizons : flying through history : an anthology of writings on African American historical figures who appear in Faith Ringgold's art and children's books.
- Title
- Bridging horizons : flying through history : an anthology of writings on African American historical figures who appear in Faith Ringgold's art and children's books.
- Publication
- Oakland, Calif. : Visibility Press, Mills College, 1996.
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- Additional Authors
- Ringgold, Faith.
- Description
- 97 p. : ill.; 28 cm.
- Alternative Title
- Flying through history.
- Anthology of writings on African American historical figures who appear in Faith Ringgold's art and children's books.
- Subjects
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Contents
- Preface I / Moira Roth -- Preface II / Dija Andrea Amer -- Parallels between Willa Marie Simone and Faith Ringgold / Rima Ransom -- Alter egos and fantasies [Willa Marie Simone] / Arwa Toulan -- Faith for the children / Tara L. Cooper and Angelic Jaramillo -- Conductor of the freedom train [Harriet Tubman] / Christina Abram-Davis -- Seeking change [Elizabeth Catlett] / MyAnna Anderson -- They called her Fundi [Ella Baker] / Tanya Bake -- An American art tragedy [William H. Johnson] / Carla Baldwin -- To be a curiosity is a painful profession [Josephine Baker] / Jennifer Banta -- The Moses of her people [Harriet Tubman] / Alexandra Clement -- A provocative wildfire, forever free [Edmonia Lewis] / Patricia A. Cox -- Born 2 soon [Dorothy Dandridge] / Kenya Davis -- The fire this time [James Baldwin] / Emily Grossman -- A good tree grows among thorns [Augusta Savage] / Elizabeth Haas -- The determination of Ida B. Wells / Marilyn Harper -- The voice of a hundred colors / Heather Heise -- Surfing for Mary McLeod Bethune on the Net / Rachel Jose -- How to take the world by storm [Madame Walker] / Cheryl Ann La Bat -- The Paris years of brilliant melancholy [Henry Ossawa Tanner] / Robin Mitchell -- Being a jewel of a pickaninny now being forgotten being not a forgotten jewel [Richard Wright] / DeeAnn Petras -- I'm sick and tired of being sick and tired [Fannie Lou Hamer] / Wendy Ross -- Faith in Truth [Sojourner Truth] / Jaimee Rungsityakorn -- Dream weaver, weaving dreams-- woven by the dream weaver [Langston Hughes] / Rosetta Saunders -- Kaleidoscope [Zora Neale Hurston] / Laura Snelling -- From sick and tired, to a woman admired [Rosa Parks] / Jordana F. Telias -- What if I am a woman? [Maria W. Stewart] / Jasmin L. Vaughan -- The Empress [Bessie Smith] / Mikaila T. Wedding.
- Call Number
- Sc F 08-743
- OCLC
- 85211621
- Title
- Bridging horizons : flying through history : an anthology of writings on African American historical figures who appear in Faith Ringgold's art and children's books.
- Imprint
- Oakland, Calif. : Visibility Press, Mills College, 1996.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Added Author
- Ringgold, Faith.
- Research Call Number
- Sc F 08-743