Words like freedom : essays on African-American culture and history /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Newman, Richard, 1930-2003
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	West Cornwall, CT : Locust Hill Press, 1996.
Subjects:	African Americans > History. African Americans > Intellectual life. American literature > African American authors. African American arts. African Americans > Religion. African Americans > Books and reading.

Table of Contents:

Words like freedom : Afro-American books and manuscripts in the Henry W. and Albert A. Berg Collection of English and American Literature
Henry Louis Gates, Jr. : the scholar of African-American culture has written a "storytelling" memoir of growing up in the South
Two letters from Nella Larsen
Some little-known African-American writers
Sara Lawrence-Lightfoot : "To chart different journeys
"The brightest star" : Aida Overton Walker in the age of ragtime and calkwalk
Florence Mills
"East of Broadway" : Florence Mills at Aeolian Hall
The Lincoln Theatre : once a carnival of merrymaking
The paradox of Lemuel Haynes
Black bishops : some African-American old Catholics and their churches
An interview with Sherry Sherrod DuPree
Vindicating the race : collectors of African-American books
The first printed protest against slavery : George Keith's Exhortation of 1693
Books and writers of the Harlem Renaissance
Shaping the future : new guide and database will range across African-American history and culture (with Henry Louis Gates, Jr.)
"Remarks called for and otherwise" : the career of Charles F. Heartman, bookseller (with Pamela J. Petro).