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Title:

The African American experience : black history and culture through speeches, letters, editorials, poems, songs, and stories / edited by Kai Wright.

Edition:

[Updated ed.].

Publisher:

Distributed by Workman Pub.,

Copyright Date:

c2009

Description:

736 p. ; 26 cm.

Subject:

African Americans--History--Sources.

Other Authors:

Wright, Kai.

Other Titles:

African-American archive.

Notes:

Includes material through 2008. "Previously published as The African-American archive"--T.p. verso. Includes bibliographical references (p. 721) and index.

Contents:

"20 and odd Negroes" : a violent beginning -- The birth of African America: from religion to revolution -- I will be heard: abolition and the build up to civil war -- A house divided: emancipation and the Civil War era -- Forty acres and a mule : reconstruction and its aftermath -- Talented tenth : the Harlem Renaissance and the new Negro -- A dream no longer deferred : the Civil Rights movement -- Say it loud : Black power and beyond -- Learning to talk of race : the modern era.

Summary:

This collection of original documents on African American history and culture includes memoirs, speeches, songs, letters, and literary works by African American authors, along with laws, court opinions, and other materials on the subject.

ISBN:

1579127738 (pbk.)
9781579127732 (pbk.)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)213451531

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

UQAX771 -- Des Moines Area Community College Library - Ankeny (Ankeny)

ORAX826 -- Scott Community College (Bettendorf)

PTAX572 -- Stewart Memorial Library (Cedar Rapids)

BAPH771 -- Des Moines Public Library (Des Moines)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)

CAPH522 -- Iowa City Public Library (Iowa City)

GAAX314 -- Northeast Iowa Community College Library - Peosta (Peosta)

GEPG771 -- West Des Moines Public Library (West Des Moines)