Autobiography of a People is an insightfully assembled
anthology of eyewitness accounts that traces the history of the
African American experience. From the Middle Passage to the
Million Man March, editor Herb Boyd has culled a diverse range of
voices, both famous and ordinary, to creat a unique and compelling
historical portrait:
Benjamin Banneker on Thomas JeffersonOld Elizabeth on spreading
the Word
Frederick Douglass on life in the North W.E.B. Du Bois on the
Talented Tenth
Matthew Henson on reaching the North Pole Harriot Jacobs on
running away
James Cameron on escaping a mob lynichingAlvin Ailey on the world
of dance
Langston Hughes on the Harlem Renaissance Curtis Morriw on the
Korean War
Max ROach on "jazz" as a four-letter wordLL Cool J on rap
Mary Church Terrell on the Chicago World''s FairRev. Bernice King
on the future of Black America
And many others
關於作者:
Herb Boyd is the coeditor with Robert Allen of
Brotherman—The Odyssey of Black Men in America and the
author of Down the Glory Road and Black Panthers for
Beginners. An award-winning journalist, his articles have
appeared in the Amsterdam News, Black Scholar, Code, Down Beat,
Emerge, Metro Times Detroit, and The Source. He is the
national editor of "The Black World Today," an online publication,
and he teaches at the College of New Rochelle and New York
University.