Black Defiance - Black Profiles in Courage

Book

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St. Joseph Museums

Name/Title

Black Defiance - Black Profiles in Courage

Entry/Object ID

L9999.999.3384

Description

Black Defiance - Black Profiles in Courage is a collection of twenty-three women and men that provides a personalized history of black defiance in America from the eighteenth century to 1970. Their struggles to combat white racism are evoked in autobiography, biography, dramatic narrative and poetry. It is broken into two sections: 18th & 19th Century, and 20th Century. Excerpts of slave narratives are included. Contents: 18Th & 19th Century From "Richard Allen" by Marcia M. Mathews From "Anti-Slavery Leaders of North Carolina" by John Spencer Bassett From "The Book of Life or Narrative of Sojourner Truth" edited by Olive Gilbert From "The Slave Narrative of William Wells Brown" From "I Bring You General Tubman" by Earl Conrad From "Bursting Bonds" by William Pickens "We Wear the Mask" by Paul Lawrence Dunbar From "Daniel Hale Williams: Negro Surgeon" by Helen Buckler From "A Norther Negro's Autobiography" By Fannie Barrier Williams 20th Century From "A Negro and a Mob" From "13 Against the Odds" by Edwin R. Embree From "Communist Councilman from Harlem" by Benjamin J. Davis "You Go South" by Ted Poston From "The Hard Kind of Courage" by James Baldwin From "The Challenge to Negro Leadership" by Julian Mayfield From "Boycott in Philadelphia" by Hanna Lees "Portrait of Three Heroes" By Tom Dent "On Eldridge Cleaver" by Kathleen Cleaver From "I Remember Papa" by Harry Dolan From "The Fire Next Time" by James Baldwin "Watts, 1966", by Johnie Scott From "Eldridge Cleaver: Post-prison Writings & Speeches", edited by Robert Scheer "If We Must Dies" by Claude McKay 240/Hardbound

Lexicon

Nomenclature 4.0

Nomenclature Primary Object Term

Book

Nomenclature Sub-Class

Other Documents

Nomenclature Class

Documentary Objects

Nomenclature Category

Category 08: Communication Objects

LOC Thesaurus for Graphic Materials

Racism, Discrimination, Segregation, Slavery

Search Terms

Philadelphia Boycott, Watts Riot, Racism, Afro-American/, Anti-Slavery Leaders, Communism, Boycotts, llen, Richard, Truth, Sojourner, Williams, Daniel Hale, Wiliams, Fannie Barrier, Cleaver, Eldridge, Tubman, Harriet, Lane, Lundsford, Brown, William Wells, Pickens, William, Dunbar, Paul Lawrence, Randolph. A. Philip, Davis, Benjamin J., Poston, Ted, Williams, Robert F., Meredith, James, Evers, Medgar, Smith, Robert, Dolan, Harry, Baldwin, James, Scott, Johnie, McKay, Claude, Black Poetry

Book Details

Author

David, Jay, Editor

Place Published

City

New York City

State/Province

New York

Date Published

1972

Call No.

BlackHist DA

LCCN

70-17245

Notes

Copy No.: 1

Condition

Overall Condition

Good

Relationships

Related Person or Organization

Person or Organization

Richard Allen

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Truth, Sojourner

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Daniel Hale Williams

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Wiliams, Fannie Barrier

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Eldridge Cleaver

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Harriet Tubman

Person or Organization

Lundsford Lane

Person or Organization

William Wells Brown

Person or Organization

William Pickens

Person or Organization

Paul Lawrence Dunbar

Person or Organization

Randolph. A. Philip

Person or Organization

Benjamin J. Davis

Person or Organization

Ted Poston

Person or Organization

Williams, Robert F.

Person or Organization

James Meredith

Person or Organization

Medgar Evers

Person or Organization

Robert Smith

Person or Organization

Harry Dolan

Person or Organization

James Baldwin

Person or Organization

Johnie Scott

Person or Organization

Claude McKay