Great Black Americans (Masterplots II: Juvenile and Young Adult Biography Series)
At a glance:
- Author: William A. Fahey, Ben Richardson
- First Published: 1945
- Time of Work: 1856–1974
- Setting: The United States and various other countries
- Principal Characters: Duke Ellington, Charlie Parker, Paul Robeson, Langston Hughes, Richard Wright, W. E. B. Du Bois, Malcolm X, Martin Luther King, Jr., George Washington Carver, Jesse Owens
- Genres: Nonfiction, Children’s literature, Biography
- Subjects: African Americans, Civil rights, Social action, Racism, Authors or writers, Music or musicians, Leadership, Science or scientists, Athletes, Biography
- Locales: United States
Form and Content
In his preface to the 1976 revised edition of Great Black Americans, William Fahey quotes Langston Hughes’s echo of Walt Whitman—“I, too, sing America”—and states that it is the “ample voice, large subject” of what he calls “great black America” that is the source of inspiration for the book. Nothing the changes in American life since the book was initially published in 1945 as Great American Negroes, Fahey explains that his revisions of Ben Richardson’s original conception are designed to “express these changes as they are...
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