Young and Black in America (Masterplots II: Juvenile and Young Adult Biography Series)
At a glance:
- Author: Rae Alexander-Minter
- First Published: 1970
- Time of Work: 1850–1970
- Setting: The United States
- Principal Characters: Frederick Douglass, Richard Wright, Daisy Bates, Malcolm X, Jimmy Brown, Anne Moody, Harry Edwards, David Parks
- Genres: Nonfiction, Biography
- Subjects: African Americans, Civil rights, Segregation or integration, Social action, Journalism or journalists, Social reform, Abolitionists, Protests or demonstrations, Religion, Writing, Vietnam War, Veterans, Biography, Sociology, Football, Orators or orations
- Locales: United States
Form and Content
In Young and Black in America, Rae Pace Alexander has gathered personal written accounts of eight African Americans whose accomplishments during their youth affected their futures. Beginning with Frederick Douglass, who used his newspaper to proclaim the abolition of slavery, to David Parks, who suffered racial discrimination in the armed services, they all recount an experience that forever changed their lives. Alexander documents historical events through the eyes of young Americans during the Civil War, the abolition movement, segregation in the...
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