UP FROM SLAVERYThe autobiography of Booker T Washington is a startling portrait ofone of the great Americans of the late nineteenth and early twentieth century.
The illegitimate son of 'a white man and a Negro slave, Washington, a man who struggled for his education, would go on to struggle for the dignity of all his people in a hostile and alien society.
THE SOULS OF BLACK FOLKW.
Du Bois's classic is a major sociological document and one of the momentous books in the mosaic of American literature.
No other work has had greater influence on black thinking, and nowhere is the African-American's unique heritage and his kinship with all men so passionately described.
THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF AN EX-COLORED MANOriginally published anonymously, James Weldon Johnson's penetrating work is a remarkable human account of the life of black Americans in the early twentieth century and a profound interpretation of his feelings towards the white man and towards members of his own race.
No other book touches with such understanding and objectivity on the phenomenon once called ``passing`` in a white society.
These three narratives, gathered together in Three Negro Classics chronicle the remarkable evolution of African-American consciousness on both a personal and social level.
Profound, intelligent, and insightful, they are as relevant today as they have ever been.
The Autobiography of Booker T.
Washington is a startling portrait of one of the great Americans of the late nineteenth and early twentieth century.
The illegitimate son of a white man and a Negro slave, Washington, a man who struggled for his education, would go on to struggle for the dignity of all his people in a hostile and alien society.
Du Bois's classic is a major sociological document and one of the momentous books in the mosaic of American literature.
No other work has had greater influence on black thinking, and nowhere is the African-American's unique heritage and his kinship with all men so passionately descri.
Avon Books Three negro classics, paperback/james weldon johnson
