Works for Children and Young Adults: BiographiesUniversity of Missouri Press, 2001 - 336 páginas The twelfth volume of The Collected Works of Langston Hughes contains Hughes's collections of biographies for children and young adults - Famous American Negroes, Famous Negro Music Makers, and Famous Negro Heroes of America - gathered together for the first time. In these works, Hughes sought to remedy decades of historical and cultural neglect by telling the stories of African Americans who had made vital contributions to the construction of the American identity. Hughes made clear his commitment to an inclusive and diverse accounting of the achievements of African Americans on American soil, from vernacular expression to high culture, oratory to combat, geographical exploration to intellectual introspection. His lively and dramatic portraits of African Americans such as Crispus Attucks, Frederick Douglass, Jackie Robinson, and Mahalia Jackson, battling against exclusivity and adversity to achieve their full potential, present a captivating portrait of America. This volume is a valuable record of the emerging African American struggle for civil rights and positive self- determination. It also documents Hughes's interests as he entered the fifth decade of his life and can be read fruitfully alongside his writings for adults at the time, reflecting his sociocultural and political thought. |
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Contenido
Contents | 19 |
Richard Allen about 17601831 | 26 |
Frederick Douglass about 18171895 | 32 |
Harriet Tubman about 18231913 | 38 |
Booker T Washington about 18581915 | 45 |
Daniel Hale Williams 18581931 | 53 |
George Washington Carver about 18641943 | 59 |
Robert S Abbott 18701940 | 66 |
Jelly Roll Morton | 142 |
Bessie Smith | 156 |
Famous Negro Heroes of America 1958 | 199 |
Contents | 205 |
Paul Cuffe | 220 |
James P Beckwourth | 234 |
Harriet Tubman | 255 |
Charles Young | 272 |
Términos y frases comunes
African American audiences band beautiful became Beckwourth began Bert Bert Williams Bessie Bessie Smith blues Booker born Boston Broadway called Captain Carver Chicago church clubs coast Colonel colored composed concert Covey Cuffe dance Dean Dixon Esteban Ethel Waters famous father Fisk Fisk Jubilee Singers Fred Frederick Douglass freedom gave George girl Harriet Tubman heard Henson Hughes hundred Indians Jackie jazz Jelly Roll later Leadbelly learned Lena Horne lived Louis Louis Blues Mahalia Marian Anderson master Matt minstrel mother Mulzac musicians never night North orchestra Paul Peary Phillis piano plantation play poems popular race ragtime record Robert Smalls Roland Hayes sailed sang ship singers singing slave slavery soldiers sometimes songs South star teacher theater took Tuskegee Union United W. C. Handy Washington West Wheatley Williams woman wrote York young Negro