Black Bolshevik is the powerful story of one black man’s search for answers, from growing up in Omaha, to Minnesota, to Chicago, to Harlem, to France and World War I, to Africa, to Moscow, and back to Harlem USA, struggling every step of the way. This is not merely a […]
Daily Archives: July 11, 2016
Erik. S. Gellman. Death Blow to Jim Crow. The National Negro Congress and the Rise of Militant Civil Rights (call number) During the Great Depression, black intellectuals, labor organizers, and artists formed the National Negro Congress (NNC) to demand a “second emancipation” in America. Over the next decade, the NNC […]
Brotherman: The Odyssey of Black Men in America – An Anthology. Edited by Herb Boyd and Robert L. Allen (call number) More than a mere anthology, this book is a gateway. This ambitious assemblage of excerpts from essays, stories, documents, poems, narratives, position papers, novels and autobiographies has no equal […]
This is a reprinted special edition of Survey Graphic “Harlem: Mecca of the New Negro” edited by Alain Locke. A collectors item for more than 50 years, this edition contains contributions by Black writers whose names have become synonymous with the Harlem Renaissance. The 103 pages of this special edition […]