An Introduction to Black Literature in America: From 1746 to the PresentLindsay Patterson Publishers Agency, 1976 - 302 pages |
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Page 86
... called her blessed as she broke her bread to the pale lips of hunger . Her life was like a beautiful story , only it was clothed with the dignity of reality and invested with the sublimity of truth . True , she was an old maid ; no ...
... called her blessed as she broke her bread to the pale lips of hunger . Her life was like a beautiful story , only it was clothed with the dignity of reality and invested with the sublimity of truth . True , she was an old maid ; no ...
Page 133
... called resistance to racial material is certainly understandable , but sooner or later the Negro novelist realizes that what he has encountered , as often critical as popular , is more subtle than that . What annoys some readers of ...
... called resistance to racial material is certainly understandable , but sooner or later the Negro novelist realizes that what he has encountered , as often critical as popular , is more subtle than that . What annoys some readers of ...
Page 289
... called upon to protect that dream with his blood , he asked questions and demanded answers . Whose dream was he protecting , he wanted to know , and why and wherefore ? There followed such promises as only the less scrupulous ...
... called upon to protect that dream with his blood , he asked questions and demanded answers . Whose dream was he protecting , he wanted to know , and why and wherefore ? There followed such promises as only the less scrupulous ...
Contents
Introduction Lindsay Patterson | 5 |
A Plan of Peace Office for the United States Benjamin Banneker | 17 |
Poetry | 27 |
Copyright | |
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