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Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man
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James Weldon Johnson |
"The Auto-biography of an Ex-colored Man," by James Weldon Johnson, is the tragic fictional story of an unnamed narrator who tells the story of his coming-of-age at the beginning of the 20th century.… |
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From plantation to ghetto
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August Meier |
Beginning with the slave trade, the book interprets black ideologies and protest movements throughout American history, particularly in the 20th century. |
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The diary of Susie King Taylor, Civil War nurse
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Susie King Taylor |
Excerpts from the diary of a woman who served as nurse to a regiment of black soldiers fighting for the Union during the Civil War, including her observations on the treatment of "coloreds" after the… |
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At the hands of persons unknown
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Philip Dray |
It is easy to shrink from our country's brutal history of lynching. Lynching is called the last great skeleton in our nation's closet: It terrorized all of black America, claimed thousands upon thous… |
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