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Autobiography of a people : three centuries of African American history told by those who lived it / [edited by] Herb Boyd.

Boyd, Herb, 1938- (Added Author).

Record details

ISBN: 0385492782
Physical Description: xviii, 549 p. ; 25 cm.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: New York : Doubleday, 2000.

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:

Bibliography: p. [544]-545.

Formatted Contents Note:

James Albert Ukawsaw Gronniosaw (1710-?) -- Olaudah Equiano (1745-1797) -- Phillis Wheatley (1753-1784) -- Lemuel Haynes (1753-1833) -- John Cuffe (c. 1755-?) -- Richard Allen (1760-1831) -- Old Elizabeth (1766-?) -- Jupiter Hammon (c. 1711-1806) -- Belinda (c. 1717-?) -- Benjamin Banneker (1731-1806) -- Prince Hall (1748-1797) -- Jenny Proctor (c. 1845-?) -- Peter Williams (?-1849) -- Abd ar-Rahman (c. 1790-?) -- Austin Steward (1793-1860) -- Nat Turner (1800-1831) -- Henry Highland Garnet (1815-1882) -- Harriet Jacobs (1815?-1897) -- Frederick Douglass (1818-1895) -- John Parker (1827-1900) --Osborne Anderson (1830-1872) -- Mattie J. Jackson (1800-?) -- William Wells Brown (1814-1884) -- Robert Purvis (1810-1898) -- Harriet Tubman (1820-1913) -- Elizabeth Keckley (1824-1907) -- John Boston (c. 1842-?) -- Charlotte Forten (1837-1914) -- Ann (c. 1835-?) -- Octave Johnson (1840-?) -- Patsey Leach (1843-?) -- John Mercer Langston (1829-1879) -- Sojourner Truth (c. 1797-1883) -- Samuel Larkin (c. 1840-?) -- John R. Lynch (1847-1939) -- Booker T. Washington (1857?-1915) -- Lewis Latimer (1848-1928) -- Henry McNeal Turner (1834-1915) -- Anna Julia Cooper (1858/9-1964) -- Mary Church Terrell (1863-1954) -- Paul Laurence Dunbar (1872-1906) -- Alice Moore Dunbar-Nelson (1875-1935) -- James Weldon Johnson (1871-1938) -- W.E.B Du Bois (1868-1963) -- Ida B. Wells Barnett (1862-1931) -- Matthew Henson (1866-1955) -- Ferdinand "Jelly Roll" Morton (1890-1941) -- Jack Johnson (1878-1946) -- Ethel Waters (1896-1977) -- Addie Hunton (1875-1943) -- Harry Haywood (1898-1985) -- Era Bell Thompson (1906-1986) -- Dorothy West (1909-1998) -- Richard Wright (1908-1960) -- Marcus Garvey (1887-1940) -- Langston Hughes (1898-1967) -- Howard "Stretch" Johnson (1915-) -- Zora Neale Hurston (1891-1960) -- Paulí Murray (1910-1985) -- Nate Shaw (c. 1900-) -- Haywood Patterson (1913-1952) -- James Cameron (1914-) -- Adam Clayton Powell, Jr. (1908-1972) -- Conrad Lynn (1908-1995) -- Marian Anderson (1900-1993) -- Nelson Peery (1923-) -- Althea Gibson (1927-) -- A. Philip Randolph (1889-1979) -- Clarence Atkins (1922-) -- Charles Denby (1907-1983) -- Maya Angelou (1928-) -- Coleman Young (1918-1998) -- Curtis Morrow (1933-) -- Jane (1914-) -- Paul Robeson (1898-1976) -- Sunnie Wilson (1908-1999) -- Coretta Scott King (1927-) -- Constance Baker Motley (1921-) -- Rosa Parks (1913-) -- Ella Baker (1903-1986) -- James Forman (1928-) -- Melba Pattillo Beals (1942-) -- Ossie Davis (1917-) and Ruby Dee (1924-) -- Anne Moody (1940-) -- Sharon Robinson (1950-) -- Malcolm X (1925-1965) -- General Gordon Baker (1942-) -- Gordon Parks (1912-) -- David Parks (1944-) -- Kwame Ture (1941-1998) -- Martin Luther King, Jr. (1929-1968) -- H. Rap Brown (1943-) -- Angela Davis (1944-) -- George Jackson (1941-1971) -- Elaine Brown (1943-) -- Randall Robinson (1941-) -- LL Cool J (1968-) -- Johnnie Cochran (1938-) -- Margaret Walker (1915-) -- Lee Stringer (1950-) -- Sam Fulwood (1956-) -- Tyrone Powers (1961-) -- Audre Lorde (1934-1993) -- Jill Nelson (1953-) -- Johnetta B. Cole (1936-) -- Max Roach (1924-) -- Alvin Ailey (1931-1989) -- Colin L. Powell (1937-) -- Al Sharpton (1954-) -- Bari-Ellen Roberts (1953-) -- Anita Hill (1950-) -- Gary Franks (1953-) -- James McBride (1957-) -- Mumia Abu-Jamal (1956-) -- Kevin Powell (1966-) -- Rev. Bernice King (1963-).