Black Protest: 350 Years of History, Documents, and Analyses [Paperback]

Joanne Grant (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: September 29, 1996

-- John Brown
-- Stokely Carmichael
-- Ossie Davis
-- Frederick Douglass
-- W. E. B. Du Bois
-- James Farmer
-- James Forman
-- John Hope Franklin
-- William Lloyd Garrison
-- Marcus Garvey
-- Lorraine Hansberry
-- Thomas Wentworth Higginson
-- Langston Hughes
-- Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr.
-- Malcolm X
-- Rosa Parks
-- A. Philip Randolph
-- Charles Silberman
-- David Walker
-- Roy Wilkins
-- and many others

Editorial Reviews

Review

"Black Protest is by far the fullest documentary history of three and one half centuries of Black-American protest and agitation available at the price. The editor provides intelligent commentary throughout, and the book pulls no punches. Its message is neither hopeful nor threatening, but realistic; and among the realities is that Blacks have tried virtually everything to secure their right -- petitions, the vote, court action, demonstrations, marches, appeasement, threats, nonviolence, violence. alliances with whites, black nationalism -- and still, for some reason, in this democracy, have been resisted, put off, and denied. This is the essence of American Black history, both protest and oppression."

-- Eliot Fremont-Smith

The New York Time

From the Inside Flap

-- John Brown
-- Stokely Carmichael
-- Ossie Davis
-- Frederick Douglass
-- W. E. B. Du Bois
-- James Farmer
-- James Forman
-- John Hope Franklin
-- William Lloyd Garrison
-- Marcus Garvey
-- Lorraine Hansberry
-- Thomas Wentworth Higginson
-- Langston Hughes
-- Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr.
-- Malcolm X
-- Rosa Parks
-- A. Philip Randolph
-- Charles Silberman
-- David Walker
-- Roy Wilkins
-- and many others

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Product Details

• Paperback
• Publisher: Ballantine Books; 2 edition (September 29, 1996)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 044991223X
• ISBN-13: 978-0449912232
• Product Dimensions: 8.2 x 5.5 x 1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 12.8 ounces
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,386,802 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)