Growing up black / edited by Jay David.
David, Jay.
1968
E185.96 .D283
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Title Growing up black / edited by Jay David.
Publication Details New York : William Morrow, ©1968.
Language English
Description 256 pages ; 23 cm
Call Number E185.96 .D283
Dewey Decimal Classification 973/.0496073/00922
Summary Anthology of nineteen autobiographical accounts of leading Negro Americans of the past two centuries, recounting what it was like to be a black child growing up in a white America.
Note "Beginning with a slave owned by Thomas Jefferson, to Malcolm X and Dick Gregory, nineteen Negroes tell of their childhood in America"--Cover.
Added Author David, Jay.
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A man called white / Walter White, excerpts
The long shadow of Little Rock / Daisy Bates, excerpts
The seeking / Will Thomas, excerpts
Let me live / Angelo Herndon, excerpts
Dark symphony / Elizabeth Adams, excerpts
Memoirs of a Monticello slave: The life of Isaac Jefferson
Narrative of the life of Frederick Douglass, an American slave / Frederick Douglass, excerpts
Up from slavery / Booker T. Washington, excerpts
The Black man's burden / William H. Holtzclaw, excerpts
In spite of the handicap / James D. Corrothers, excerpts
His eye is on the sparrow / Ethel Waters with Charles Samuels, excerpts
A choice of weapons / Gordon Parks, excerpts
Go up for glory / Bill Russell as told to William McSweeny, excerpts
The autobiography of Malcom X / Malcom X with the assistance of Alex Haley, excerpts
The long shadow of Little Rock / Daisy Bates, excerpts
Manchild in the promised land / Claude Brown, excerpts
No day of triumph / J. Saunders Redding, excerpts
Black Boy / Richard Wright, excerpts
Nigger / Dick Gregory with Robert Lipsyte, excerpts.

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