Sweet words so brave : the story of African American literature / written by Barbara K. Curry and James Michael Brodie ; illustrated by Jerry Butler

By: Curry, Barbara KContributor(s): Brodie, James Michael, 1957- | Butler, Jerry, 1947- [illustrator]Material type: TextTextPublication details: Madison, Wis. : Zino Press Children's Books, ©1996Description: 64 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 32 cmISBN: 1559331798; 9781559331791Subject(s): American literature -- African American authors -- History and criticism -- Juvenile literature | African Americans -- Intellectual life -- Juvenile literature | African Americans in literature -- Juvenile literatureLOC classification: PS153.N5 | C87 1996
Contents:
Maya Angelou -- James Baldwin -- Amiri Baraka -- Gwendolyn Brooks -- William Wells Brown -- Charles W. Chesnutt -- Countee Cullen -- Frederick Douglass -- W.E.B. DuBois -- Paul Laurence Dunbar -- Ralph Ellison -- Olaudah Equiano -- Nikki Giovanni -- Alex Haley. -- Lorraine Hansberry -- Langston Hughes -- Zora Neale Hurston -- James Weldon Johnson -- Martin Luther King Jr. -- Malcolm X -- Paule Marshall -- Claude McKay -- Toni Morrison -- Gordon Parks -- Paul Robeson -- Sonia Sanchez -- Jean Toomer -- Alice Walker -- Phillis Wheatley -- Richard Wright
Summary: A survey of the history of African American literature, from slave narratives to the present, told in the voice of a grandfather speaking to his granddaughter
Item type: Book
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Martha's Vineyard High School Library
CHILDRENS/810.989/CUR (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 39844300044571

Includes bibliographical references (page 64)

Maya Angelou -- James Baldwin -- Amiri Baraka -- Gwendolyn Brooks -- William Wells Brown -- Charles W. Chesnutt -- Countee Cullen -- Frederick Douglass -- W.E.B. DuBois -- Paul Laurence Dunbar -- Ralph Ellison -- Olaudah Equiano -- Nikki Giovanni -- Alex Haley. -- Lorraine Hansberry -- Langston Hughes -- Zora Neale Hurston -- James Weldon Johnson -- Martin Luther King Jr. -- Malcolm X -- Paule Marshall -- Claude McKay -- Toni Morrison -- Gordon Parks -- Paul Robeson -- Sonia Sanchez -- Jean Toomer -- Alice Walker -- Phillis Wheatley -- Richard Wright

A survey of the history of African American literature, from slave narratives to the present, told in the voice of a grandfather speaking to his granddaughter

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