Tag Archives: Addison Gayle
William Attaway: Banana Boats and Civil Rights
One of the most versatile black writers in American history, William Attaway wrote poems, stories, plays, music, and scripts for radio, television, and film. With the appearance of his first novel Let Me Breathe Thunder in 1939, and especially Blood … Continue reading
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Tagged Addison Gayle, Arthur Loving, Banana Boat Song (Day-O), Blood on the Forge, Civil Wrights, Harry Belafonte, Let Me Breathe Thunder, Martin Luther King Jr., miscegenation, Ralph Ellison, Richard Wright, Robert Bone, The Colgate Hour, William Attaway
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Hoyt W. Fuller: Voluntary Exiles
Hoyt W. Fuller (1923 – 1981) was one of the most revered figures in Chicago literary history, publishing articles and criticism for Negro Digest and Black World, the Chicago Defender, Tribune and Sun-Times, The Nation, the New Republic, and many … Continue reading
Posted in Black Writers, Chicago Writing, Diversity & Multiculturalism, Social Change
Tagged Addison Gayle, black bourgeois, black middleclass, Black Writing from Chicago, Ebony, Frantz Fanon, Hoyt W. Fuller, Johnson Publishing, Journey to Africa, Negro Digest, Sekou Toure, Teaching Diversity, whiteness
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