num_pages: 576
description: Autobiography of a People is an insightfully assembled anthology of eyewitness accounts that traces the history of the African American experience.  From the Middle Passage to the Million Man March, editor Herb Boyd has culled a diverse range of voices, both famous and ordinary, to creat a unique and compelling historical Benjamin Banneker on Thomas JeffersonOld Elizabeth on spreading the WordFrederick Douglass on life in the NorthW.E.B. Du Bois on the Talented TenthMatthew Henson on reaching the North PoleHarriot Jacobs on running awayJames Cameron on escaping a mob lynichingAlvin Ailey on the world of danceLangston Hughes on the Harlem RenaissanceCurtis Morriw on the Korean WarMax ROach on "jazz" as a four-letter wordLL Cool J on rapMary Church Terrell on the Chicago World's FairRev. Bernice King on the future of Black AmericaAnd many others.
language: English
title: Autobiography of a People: Three Centuries of African American History Told by Those Who Lived It
titlecomplete: Autobiography of a People: Three Centuries of African American History Told by Those Who Lived It
genres: History, Nonfiction
ratings_count: 41
publisher: Anchor