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LITERATURE
In the beginning there were words, and the words, and the words created history and the power to challenge the imagination. From the beginning of this country black writers have created a rich literacy legacy which has yet to be fully appreciated by the world. The failure to own printing presses and channels of distributation , which would allow the diverse voices of the black experiences to be heard, has muffled the voices of the past and threatened to silence the voices of the present and future. But despite these set backs, black writers have provided great insight into their experience. They have shown us America through the eyes of its most oppressed people, and have offered us solutions
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Perspectives of Zora Neale Hurston
by Janine Fondon In 1934, a New York Times book review of Zora Neale Hurston's novel Jonah's Gourd Vine reads, "[the book] can be called, without fear of exaggeration, the most vital and original novel about the American Negro...
RICHARD WRIGHT’S NATIVE SON
50 Years Later "Even today is my complaint rebellious..." Fifty years ago, Richard Wright chose this line from Job, words at once plaintive and defiant, as a telling epigraph to his novel Native Son. The actual novel then begins with the prophetic ringing of an alarm...
AUTHOR RALPH ELLISON
RALPH ELLISON'S INVISIBLE MAN Ralph Elision's Invisible Man explores the inconsistency between outward appearance and inner self- a reality which is both elusive and evanescent. The title itself suggests this fragility of appearance. From the narrator's first...
W.E.B. Du Bois
On the Backlash to the Previous Letter After the May 1922 Issue of The Crisis Magazine, was published, W.E.B. Dubois was severely upbraided for his analysis of Lincoln. The following is his response to such criticism which was subsequently published in the September...
W.E.B. Du Bois
Crusaders For Peace: A Book Review Black civil rights activist, writer and scholar W.E.B. Du Bois is finally beginning to receive the attention and acclaim that he so well deserves. In September 1991, Discovery Enterprises,Ltd., a publishing company in Lowell,...
Frederick Douglass & W.E.B. Dubois on Lincoln
Frederick Douglass Oration in memory of Abraham Lincoln by Frederick Douglas, given on April 14, 1876, the anniversary of Lincoln's assassination and of the emancipation of the slaves in the District of Columbia. All day long he could split heavy rails in the woods,...