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Prologue v
Foreword xix
Introduction: Bearing Witness 1
Part 1 A Certain Heritage 11
1 Ancestors-Ellington's Mentor: Will Marion Cook 13
2 Albert Murray and Louis Armstrong 22
3 The Craft of Ralph Ellison 37
4 From Duke Ellington to Wynton Marsalis 50
5 Variations on a Theme: Romare Bearden, Artist 70
Part 2 Creation Under Fire 81
6 Ancestors-Meta Warrick Fuller, Sculptor 83
7 The Painters: Lois Mailou Jones and Jacob Lawrence 89
8 All the World's Their Stage: Paul Robeson and Ira Aldridge 115
9 Gordon Parks: A Lens on Humanity 141
10 Ancestors-Mary McLeod Bethune, Educator 169
11 A Teacher's Mission: Elma Lewis 177
12 The Philosophers: Cornel West and the Du Bois/Locke Legacy 200
13 Toni Morrison: Nobel Prize for Literature 227
14 Timeless Voices, Parallel Realities: James Baldwin and Frederick Douglass 247
Part 3 Builders of America: Science, Invention, Mathematics and Architecture 287
15 Ancestors-Lewis Latimer and the Early Black Inventors 289
16 The Laser Physicist and the Computer Wizard: Earl and Alan Shaw 306
17 Bob Moses and the Algebra Project 326
18 Ancestors-The Astronomer/Surveyor: Benjamin Banneker 344
19 The Architects: Charles and Cheryl McAfee 355
Part 4 Healers of Body and Spirit 373
20 Ancestors-The Physicians: Louis Tompkins Wright and Jane Cooke Wright 375
21 Byllye Avery and the National Black Women's Health Project 389
22 Ancestors-Sojourner Truth and the Nineteenth-Century Visionaries 406
23 Howard Thurman, Benjamin Mays, and the Martin Luther King Legacy 421
Afterword 451
Acknowledgments 453
Notes on Sources 457
Selected Bibliography477
Index 483
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Thomas Peveto
reviewed Black Genius: Inspirational Portraits of African-American Leaders on November 01, 2013
Black Genius: Inspirational Portraits of African-American Leaders
The stories are not well written and there is an awkwardness to the text. But this is forgiven in favor of the content. Slavery is such a scourge on our country's history, but this collection of run away slave narratives is remarkable. What people did for love, the very people who were believed by Thomas Jefferson to only feel superficially, is extraordinary.
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