Black Lives: Essays in African American Biography

by James L. Conyers

Overview

The chapters in this text comprise biographical sketches of previously unknown (or lesser known) African-Americans, among them General Daniel Chappie James Jr; William Levi Dawson (composer); Vinnette Carroll (director and playwright); and Elizabeth Ross Haynes (political speaker and activist).

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780765603296
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	12/31/1998
Pages:	238
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x (d)
Lexile:	1370L (what's this?)

Table of Contents

Part 1 Intellectual Biography; Chapter 1 Maulana Karenga, Kawaida, and Phenomenology, James L. ConyersJr.; Chapter 2 Vinnette Carroll, Calvin A. McClinton; Chapter 3 Higher than the Eagle, Earnest NortonBracey; Chapter 4 The Shaping of a Public Biography, Mitchell Kachun; Part 2 Cultural Biography; Chapter 5 Outlaw Women and Toni Morrison’s Communities, Gloria T. Randle; Chapter 6 Bessie Head, Owen G. Mordaunt; Chapter 7 Working toward the Betterment of the Community, LaVerne Gyant; Chapter 8 A Black Composer Speaks, Ralph Anthony Russell; Chapter 9 Keeping Truth on My Side, Ida Young; Part 3 Oral History and Biography as Teaching Tools; Chapter 10 Through Trinbagonian Eyes, Clement London; Chapter 11 Life Ain’t Been No Crystal Stair, Olga Idriss Davis; Chapter 12 Literary Biographical Profiles as Teaching Tools in a University Black History Course, Robin Balthrope; Chapter 13 An Intellectual Aesthetic for Black Adult Education, Andrew Smallwood; Chapter 14 Dr. James Emman Kwegyir Aggrey of Achimota, Daniel Boamah-Wiafe; Chapter 15 Bothersome Biography, Maceo Crenshaw DaileyJr.;