Research Catalog

Title

From the ashes : voices of Watts / edited and with an introduction by Budd Schulberg.

Publication

[New York] : New American Library, [1967]

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Details

Additional Authors

• Schulberg, Budd
• Leonard L. Milberg Collection of Jewish American Writers NjP
• Watts Writers' Workshop.

Description

x, 277 p.; 22 cm.

Summary

Selected writings, including autobiographical essays, poems and stories, by eighteen contributors to the Watts Writers Workshop, founded in South Los Angeles after the riots of 1965.

Subject

• 1900-1999
• American literature > African American authors
• American literature > California > Los Angeles
• African Americans > California > Los Angeles > Literary collections
• American literature > 20th century
• African Americans > Literary collections
• African Americans
• American literature
• American literature > African American authors
• Watts (Los Angeles, Calif.) > Literary collections
• California > Los Angeles
• California > Los Angeles > Watts

Genre/Form

• Literature
• Literary collections
• Literature.
• Littérature.

Note

• gift of Leonard L. Milberg '53 in honor of President Harold T. Shapiro.

Contents

Introduction / Budd Schulberg -- I remember Papa ; Will there be another riot in Watts? ; The sand-clock day ; Crazy nigger ; Losers weepers / Harry Dolan -- Morality ; Indictment ; Black power ; To Mr. Charles and Sister Annie ; Watts / Alvin A. Saxon -- Listen, America, ebony middle-class is talking ; The house on Mettler Street ; The stake-out / Jeanne Taylor -- The workin' machine ; The world is ready to explode ; As bald as she could be ; My beard ; I'm here! ; Negro history ; Sammy Lee ; This is the home of my fathers ; Race compliments / Jimmie Sherman -- To save a tear ; Jealousy ; The law ; Brief thought before dawn ; The shoe shine ; What is ; Suppression ; Existence ; The jewel / Guadalupe De Saavedra -- The Coming of the hoodlum ; India ; The suicide note ; Hush ; Bad news ; Attention ; The fish party ; Jeremy ; Intent ; Chaos in a gehtto alley ; Black consciousness ; Alan Paton will die ; Long live the Peace Corps of America ; Watts, 1966 / Johnie Scott -- Another day ; Love of a woman ; My black man's togetherness was called revolt / Vallejo Ryan Kennedy -- Life, a gamble / Ernest A. Mayhand, Jr. -- Reveille ; Shade of darkness ; Jean ; Some notes on the Frederick Douglass Writers' House / James Thomas Jackson -- The realization of a dream deferred ; Lullaby, my son / Fannie Carole Brown -- Consequence / David Reese Moody -- A deep blue feeling / Edna Gipson -- Love or life ; A serpent smiles ; In the name of God / Emmery Evans -- Black phoenix ; What can I say? ; Tomorrow ; Christmas in the ghetto / Blossom Powe -- Watts-little Rome / Sonora McKeller -- Memoirs of a shoeshine boy / Harley Mims -- Infinite ; Me-I'm black ; You and I ; Who's life? ; One, two, three ; Insanity ; The question ; Who's the man asleep? / Leumas Sirrah -- A black mother's plea ; The promise of strangers / Birdell Chew -- Appendix : The trial of T -- Editor's postscript.

LCCN

67027434

OCLC

• ocm01175685
• 1175685
• SCSB-5935300

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library