Ain't Nothing But a Man
Title | Ain't Nothing But a Man PDF eBook |
Author | Scott Reynolds Nelson |
Publisher | National Geographic Books |
Total Pages | 72 |
Release | 2008 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 9781426300004 |
Historian Scott Reynolds Nelson recounts how he came to discover the real John Henry, an African-American railroad worker who became a legend in the famous song.
A Man Ain't Nothin' But a Man
Title | A Man Ain't Nothin' But a Man PDF eBook |
Author | John Oliver Killens |
Publisher | Little Brown |
Total Pages | 176 |
Release | 1975 |
Genre | African Americans |
ISBN | 9780316492782 |
Retells the life of the legendary steel driver of early railroad days who challenged the steam hammer to a steel driving contest.
Liberation Memories
Title | Liberation Memories PDF eBook |
Author | Keith Gilyard |
Publisher | Wayne State University Press |
Total Pages | 188 |
Release | 2003-04-01 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 0814339107 |
This first book-length study of John Oliver Killens aims to help secure his place in literary history and explores his creation of an inspiring Black vernacular art—one that ennobles people of African descent and urges their political liberation.
John Oliver Killens
Title | John Oliver Killens PDF eBook |
Author | Keith Gilyard |
Publisher | University of Georgia Press |
Total Pages | 458 |
Release | 2011-11-01 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 0820341959 |
John Oliver Killens's politically charged novels And Then We Heard the Thunder and The Cotillion; or One Good Bull Is Half the Herd, were nominated for the Pulitzer Prize. His works of fiction and nonfiction, the most famous of which is his novel Youngblood, have been translated into more than a dozen languages. An influential novelist, essayist, screenwriter, and teacher, he was the founding chair of the Harlem Writers Guild and mentored a generation of black writers at Fisk, Howard, Columbia, and elsewhere. Killens is recognized as the spiritual father of the Black Arts Movement. In this first major biography of Killens, Keith Gilyard examines the life and career of the man who was perhaps the premier African American writer-activist from the 1950s to the 1980s. Gilyard extends his focus to the broad boundaries of Killens's times and literary achievement--from the Old Left to the Black Arts Movement and beyond. Figuring prominently in these pages are the many important African American artists and political figures connected to the author from the 1930s to the 1980s--W. E. B. Du Bois, Paul Robeson, Alphaeus Hunton, Langston Hughes, James Baldwin, Martin Luther King Jr., Malcolm X, Harry Belafonte, and Maya Angelou, among others.
It Ain't Nothin' But the Blues
Title | It Ain't Nothin' But the Blues PDF eBook |
Author | Charles Bevel |
Publisher | Samuel French, Inc. |
Total Pages | 62 |
Release | 2002 |
Genre | Drama |
ISBN | 9780573627996 |
This sizzling revue of the blues and blues infused songs that changed the way the world hears the human heartbeat took New York by storm. Ravishing songs trace the evolution of the blues from Africa to Mississippi to Memphis to Chicago.
Investigations in Folksong
Title | Investigations in Folksong PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 602 |
Release | 1915 |
Genre | Ballads |
ISBN |
Negro Workaday Songs
Title | Negro Workaday Songs PDF eBook |
Author | Howard Washington Odum |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 304 |
Release | 1926 |
Genre | African Americans |
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