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J.W.M. (Colored)
I wanted desperately to start my book Black Writing from Chicago: In the World, Not of It? with something from John Baptiste Pointe Du Sable, the black man famed for being Chicago’s founder—that is, the first, permanent, non-Native American settler. … Continue reading
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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