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Growing up Black : from slave days to the present : 25 African-Americans reveal the trials and triumphs of their childhoods

Title
Growing up Black : from slave days to the present : 25 African-Americans reveal the trials and triumphs of their childhoods / edited by Jay David.
Publication
  • New York, New York : Avon Books, a division of The Hearst Corporation, [1992]
  • ©1992

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Additional Authors
  • David, Jay, 1929-2014
  • White, Walter, 1893-1955.
  • Wright, Richard, 1908-1960.
  • Adams, Elizabeth, 1910-
  • Parks, Gordon, 1912-2006.
  • Angelou, Maya.
  • Holman, M. Carl, 1918-1988.
  • Cary, Lorene.
  • Jefferson, Isaac, 1775-1846?
  • Douglass, Frederick, 1818-1895.
  • Washington, Booker T., 1856-1915.
  • Holtzclaw, William Henry, 1870?-1943.
  • Rowan, Carl T. (Carl Thomas), 1925-2000.
  • Baraka, Amiri, 1934-2014.
  • Abernathy, Ralph, 1926-1990.
  • Brown, Claude, 1937-2002.
  • Bates, Daisy.
  • X, Malcolm, 1925-1965.
  • Redding, J. Saunders (Jay Saunders), 1906-1988.
  • Eckford, Elizabeth, 1941-
  • Njeri, Itabari.
  • Davis, Angela Y. (Angela Yvonne), 1944-
  • Campbell, Bebe Moore, 1950-2006.
  • Moody, Anne, 1940-2015.
  • Lorde, Audre.
  • Wideman, John Edgar.
  • Wideman, Robert Douglas, 1950-
  • McCall, Nathan.
Description
xi, 276 pages; 21 cm
Summary
Twenty-five biographies of Afro-Americans from slave days to the present.
Subject
  • African Americans > Biography
  • African American children > Biography
  • African American authors > Biography
  • African Americans
  • Race relations
  • United States > Race relations
  • United States
Genre/Form
  • Biography
  • Autobiography
  • autobiographies (literary works)
  • Autobiographies
  • Biographies
  • Autobiographies.
  • Biographies.
Note
  • Revised compilation. Originally published: New York : William Morrow, 1968.
Contents
Walter White -- Richard Wright -- Elizabeth Adams -- Gordon Parks -- Maya Angelou -- M. Carl Holman -- Lorene Cary -- Frederick Douglass -- Booker T. Washington -- William H. Holtzclaw -- Carl T. Rowan -- Imamu Amiri Baraka -- Ralph David Abernathy -- Claude Brown -- Daisy Bates.
ISBN
  • 0380766329
  • 9780380766321
  • 0606064303
  • 9780606064309
LCCN
92135054
OCLC
  • ocm28907720
  • 28907720
  • SCSB-9794598
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library