Pioneers in protest

by Jr. Lerone Bennett

Ebook, 1968

Contents

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CONTENTS

Rouse the dawn : Crispus Attucks, p. 3 --
The stargazer : Benjamin Banneker, p. 13 --
Colonial catalyst : Prince Hall, p. 29 --
God and black power : Richard Allen, p. 43 --
Founders of the black press : Samuel E. Cornish and John B. Russwurm, p. 59 -- The Fanon of the nineteenth century : David Walker, p. 69 -- A burning for a burning : Nat Turner, p. 83 -- White on black : Wendell Phillips and William Lloyd Garrison, p. 101 -- A black woman in battle : Sojourner Truth, p. 115 -- Guerilla in the cottonfields : Harriet Tubman, p. 131 -- Nay-sayer of the black revolt : Henry Highland Garnet, p. 149 -- God's angry man : John Brown, p. 161 -- White architects of black liberation : Charles Sumner and Thaddeus Stevens, p. 183 -- Father of the protest movement : Frederick Douglass, p. 197 -- The last abolitionist : William Monroe Trotter, p. 221 -- Black renaissance : Marcus Garvey, p. 233 -- Dusk of dawn : W.E.B. Du Bois, 241 -- INDEX, p. 261

Description

"Without being preachy or pedantic, Bennett warmly relates the conviction, the determination, the achievements-indeed-the heroism of 20 men and women who began the fight which ultimately led to the revolution taking place in America today.”-Philadelphia Bulletin.

Pages

267
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