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Death of the Willie Lynch Speech : exposing the myth
- Title
- Death of the Willie Lynch Speech : exposing the myth by Manu Ampim.
- Author
- Ampim, Manu
- Publication
- [United States] : Black Classic Press, 2013.
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- Description
- 66 pages; 22 cm
- Summary
- Supposedly given in 1712, the "Willie Lynch Speech" is widely believed to be authentic. Actually, as revealed in this book, it is an amateurish and malicious hoax. Unfortunately, many people taken in by this hoax have spread and championed it. An extreme example of this championing occurred in 1995 at the Million Man March. There, the "Willie Lynch Speech" was dramatically repeated. Marchers and millions around the world who witnessed the March through television and radio were presented with this hoax as fact and history. In the Death of the Willie Lynch Speech, Professor Manu Ampim exposes the myth of Willie Lynch. Ampim does this by documenting the 20th century origin and fraudulent history of the "Willie Lynch Speech" and speculating, correctly, about the author's identity--forcing the admitted hoaxer to confess. This volume contains the fake "Willie Lynch Speech," correspondence between Ampim and the admitted hoaxer, and the hoaxer's confession.
- Subject
- Call Number
- Sc D 18-30
- ISBN
- 9781574780574
- 1574780573
- OCLC
- 875485531
- Author
- Ampim, Manu, author.
- Title
- Death of the Willie Lynch Speech : exposing the myth by Manu Ampim.
- Imprint
- [United States] : Black Classic Press, 2013.
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Local Subject
- Black author.
- Research Call Number
- Sc D 18-30