The Black book / [compiled by] Middleton Harris ; with the assistance of Morris Levitt, Roger Furman, Ernest Smith.
New York : Random House, [1974] 1974Edition: 1st edDescription: 198 pages : illustrations (some color), maps, portraits, plans, music, forms ; 30 cmContent type:- text
- still image
- unmediated
- volume
- 039448388X
- 9780394483887
- 0394706226
- 9780394706221
- 973/.04/96073
- E185 .B56 1974
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OCLC Data | Daphne Douglas Reading Room | Available | 0000000001254 |
With an introduction by Bill Cosby.
Book and jacket design by Jack Ribik.
Toni Morrison, a senior editor at Random House at the time of the book's publication, is the uncredited compiler of this book, which includes an uncredited poem by her on the jacket flaps. The 35th anniversary edition (2009) prints the poem as a preface and credits Morrison as the author. Her mother appears on the jacket cover.--See "Ghosts in the House: How Toni Morrison fostered a generation of black writers" in the October 27, 2003 issue of the New Yorker.
Copiously illustrated scrap-book on folk culture of Black people from early days of slavery through the present. Includes photographs, illustrations, advertisements, plans, form documents, sheet music, and more all printed in facsimile.
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