Great American Negroes

By Ben Albert Richardson

Book Overview

Great American Negroes is a comprehensive guide to the lives and achievements of notable African Americans throughout history. Written by Ben Richardson, the book provides a detailed account of the... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1494056305
• ISBN13: 9781494056308
• Release Date: October 2013
• Publisher: Literary Licensing, LLC
• Length: 244 Pages
• Weight: 0.73 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 9.0"

Customer Reviews

An Extraordinary Resource

The original Great American Negroes, published in the 1940s, is an amazing compendium of info on outstanding contemporary black americans. A great strength of this book is the variety of lives and careers it discusses. Subjects include poet Langston Hughes, conductor Dean Dixon, educator Mordecai Johnsnon, along with Marian Anderson, James Weldon Johnson and a host of others. For many years this was the best reference work of its type as an intro to these figures. The original illustrations, elegant, lively portrait drawings are beautiful. The book was later revised and expanded by a different author and the illustrations were replaced with lesser work. Overall, the first version is a real find and something of a milestone in its genre.