According to its publisher, Golden Legacy is not a comic book collection. It is “a new approach to the study of history” designed for young people with contributing writers such as the esteemed Pan-Africanist historian, John Henrik Clarke.
Artist Jerry Pinkney has illustrated over one hundred children’s books including Julius Lester’s historic retelling, Uncle Remus: The Complete Tales (1999). His works have received numerous awards including the prestigious Caldecott Medal.
Artist Jerry Pinkney has illustrated over one hundred children’s books including Julius Lester’s historic retelling, Uncle Remus: The Complete Tales (1999). His works have received numerous awards including the prestigious Caldecott Medal.
Artist Jerry Pinkney has illustrated over one hundred children’s books including Julius Lester’s historic retelling, Uncle Remus: The Complete Tales (1999). His works have received numerous awards including the prestigious Caldecott Medal.
According to its publisher, Golden Legacy is not a comic book collection. It is “a new approach to the study of history” designed for young people with contributing writers such as the esteemed Pan-Africanist historian, John Henrik Clarke.
According to its publisher, Golden Legacy is not a comic book collection. It is “a new approach to the study of history” designed for young people with contributing writers such as the esteemed Pan-Africanist historian, John Henrik Clarke.
According to its publisher, Golden Legacy is not a comic book collection. It is “a new approach to the study of history” designed for young people with contributing writers such as the esteemed Pan-Africanist historian, John Henrik Clarke.
According to its publisher, Golden Legacy is not a comic book collection. It is “a new approach to the study of history” designed for young people with contributing writers such as the esteemed Pan-Africanist historian, John Henrik Clarke.
Born in 1872 in Dayton, Ohio, Paul Laurence Dunbar was one of the first African American poets to gain international recognition. Besides being a poet, he is the author of short stories, novels, songs, librettos, plays, and essays.
This integrated co-op was located in the Rondo neighborhood of St. Paul, MN, a historically black neighborhood that was razed in the 1960s for the construction of Interstate 94.
This integrated co-op was located in the Rondo neighborhood of St. Paul, MN, a historically black neighborhood that was razed in the 1960s for the construction of Interstate 94.
The Minneapolis-Saint Paul Links presented these debutantes and escorts at the 1989 cotillion. The Links, the women’s service organization founded in 1946 for women of color, was committed to enhancing the quality of life in African American…
The Minneapolis-Saint Paul Links presented these debutantes and escorts at the 1989 cotillion. The Links, the women’s service organization founded in 1946 for women of color, was committed to enhancing the quality of life in African American…
Richard Wright’s letter of support for Henrietta Weigel, addressed to the executive director of Yaddo, an esteemed artist residency program located in upstate New York, 1941.
Richard Wright’s letter of support for Henrietta Weigel, addressed to the executive director of Yaddo, an esteemed artist residency program located in upstate New York, 1941.
Richard Wright’s letter of support for Henrietta Weigel, addressed to the executive director of Yaddo, an esteemed artist residency program located in upstate New York, 1941.
Richard Wright’s letter of support for Henrietta Weigel, addressed to the executive director of Yaddo, an esteemed artist residency program located in upstate New York, 1941.
Givens would later become a prominent businessman and Minnesota’s first African American millionaire. With the support of ten prominent African American families and the University of Minnesota, “The Black Literature Collection,” (later renamed the…
Fences, part of Wilson’s “20th Century Cycle,” was written when Wilson was a Penumbra Theatre company member and chronicles the 1950s through the story of a gifted African American baseball player who gets shut out of the game and of history because…
Countee Cullen Correspondence and poetry manuscripts. The Givens Collection holds a substantial collection of correspondence and poetry manuscripts by Harlem Renaissance poet and writer Countee Cullen (1903-1946) sent between 1918 and 1927 to his…
Countee Cullen Correspondence and poetry manuscripts. The Givens Collection holds a substantial collection of correspondence and poetry manuscripts by Harlem Renaissance poet and writer Countee Cullen (1903-1946) sent between 1918 and 1927 to his…
Countee Cullen Correspondence and poetry manuscripts. The Givens Collection holds a substantial collection of correspondence and poetry manuscripts by Harlem Renaissance poet and writer Countee Cullen (1903-1946) sent between 1918 and 1927 to his…
Quest of the Silver Fleece, a book critical of racial prejudice and economic exploitation, was Du Bois’s first novel and was originally published in 1911 following his seminal work, The Souls of Black Folks.
Purportedly published by the Black Panthers, the “Black Panthers Coloring Book” was actually produced by the FBI’s counter-intelligence division Cointelpro to incite division within the Black Panthers movement.