Black lives : essays in African American biography

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Black lives : essays in African American biography

edited by James L. Conyers, Jr

M.E. Sharpe, c1999

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Includes bibliographical references and index

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The chapters in this text comprise biographical sketches of previously unknown (or lesser known) African-Americans, among them General Daniel Chappie James Jr; William Levi Dawson (composer); Vinnette Carroll (director and playwright); and Elizabeth Ross Haynes (political speaker and activist).

Table of Contents

  • Part 1 Intellectual Biography
  • Chapter 1 Maulana Karenga, Kawaida, and Phenomenology, James L. ConyersJr.
  • Chapter 2 Vinnette Carroll, Calvin A. McClinton
  • Chapter 3 Higher than the Eagle, Earnest NortonBracey
  • Chapter 4 The Shaping of a Public Biography, Mitchell Kachun
  • Part 2 Cultural Biography
  • Chapter 5 Outlaw Women and Toni Morrison's Communities, Gloria T. Randle
  • Chapter 6 Bessie Head, Owen G. Mordaunt
  • Chapter 7 Working toward the Betterment of the Community, LaVerne Gyant
  • Chapter 8 A Black Composer Speaks, Ralph Anthony Russell
  • Chapter 9 Keeping Truth on My Side, Ida Young
  • Part 3 Oral History and Biography as Teaching Tools
  • Chapter 10 Through Trinbagonian Eyes, Clement London
  • Chapter 11 Life Ain't Been No Crystal Stair, Olga Idriss Davis
  • Chapter 12 Literary Biographical Profiles as Teaching Tools in a University Black History Course, Robin Balthrope
  • Chapter 13 An Intellectual Aesthetic for Black Adult Education, Andrew Smallwood
  • Chapter 14 Dr. James Emman Kwegyir Aggrey of Achimota, Daniel Boamah-Wiafe
  • Chapter 15 Bothersome Biography, Maceo Crenshaw DaileyJr.

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