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Woodson insisted that the scholarly study of the African-American experience should be sound, creative, restorative, and, most important, it should be directly relevant to the Black community. He popularized Black history with a variety of innovative strategies, including the founding of the Association for the Study of Negro Life, the ...
$26.03 at bookshop.org. Prose to the People: A Celebration of Black Bookstores by Katie Mitchell. Any body of work that opens with a Nikki Giovanni foreword is a must-buy.
Woodson selected the week in February because African Americans were already holding commemorative events that recognized the 16th U.S. president, Abraham Lincoln, and American abolitionist ...
Our Nig: Sketches from the Life of a Free Black is an autobiographical novel by Harriet E. Wilson. First published in 1859, [ 1 ] it was rediscovered in 1981 by Henry Louis Gates Jr. [ 2 ] and was subsequently reissued with an introduction by Gates (London: Allison & Busby , 1984). [ 3 ]
The New Negro: An Interpretation (1925) is an anthology of fiction, poetry, and essays on African and African-American art and literature edited by Alain Locke, who lived in Washington, DC, and taught at Howard University during the Harlem Renaissance. [1]
The legacy of "Stranger in the Village" is tied to the legacy and reception of the book in which it is featured, Notes of a Native Son. The book is widely regarded as a classic of the black autobiographical genre. The Modern Library placed it at number 19 on its list of the 100 best 20th-century nonfiction books. Since Baldwin's passing on ...
The book Death at an Early Age: The Destruction of the Hearts and Minds of Negro Children in the Boston Public Schools is published. 1968. February 1 – Two Memphis sanitation workers are killed in the line of duty, exacerbating labor tensions. February 8 – The Orangeburg massacre occurs during university protest in South Carolina.
During the post-civil war time period, black men in the rural south had few job opportunities while black women could find work in the domestic service industry. [2] As seen in the story, Delia is the sole financial provider for the family and this makes Sykes' masculinity feel threatened. [ 3 ]