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From the preface: "This book contains a selection of the best political writings of black Americans. The aim has been to select those writings that explore most deeply and widely, and in fairly brief compass, the American polity and the blacks' place in it -- or out of it." Contributors include Augustus Washington, Frederick Douglass, James Weldon Johnson, Joseph H. Jackson, Malcolm X, Stokely Carmichael, Charles Hamilton, Eldridge Cleaver, Julius Lester, Booker T. Washington, W.E.B. DuBois, Albert B. Cleage Jr., Martin Luther King Jr. and James Baldwin. |
