From the ashes ; voices of Watts / Edited and with an introd. by Budd Schulberg.

Contents Introduction / Budd Schulberg -- I remember Papa. Will there be another riot in Watts? The sand-clock day. Crazy nigger. Losers weepers / Harry Dolan -- Morality. Indictment. Black power. To Mr. Charles and Sister Annie. Watts / Alvin A. Saxon -- Listen, America, ebony middle-class is talking. The house on Mettler Street. The stake-out / Jeanne Taylor -- The workin' machine. The world is ready to explode. As bald as she could be. My beard. I'm here! Negro history. Sammy Lee. This is the home of my fathers. Race compliments / Jimmie Sherman -- To save a tear. Jealousy. The law. Brief thought before dawn. The shoe shine. What is. Suppression. Existence. The jewel / Guadalupe De Saavedra -- The Coming of the hoodlum. India. The suicide note. Hush. Bad news. Attention. The fish party. Jeremy. Intent. Chaos in a gehtto alley. Black consciousness. Alan Paton will die. Long live the Peace Corps of America. Watts, 1966 / Johnie Scott -- Another day. Love of a woman. My black man's togetherness was called revolt / Vallejo Ryan Kennedy -- Life, a gamble / Ernest A. Mayhand, Jr. -- Reveille. Shade of darkness. Jean. Some notes on the Frederick Douglass Writers' House / James Thomas Jackson -- The realization of a dream deferred. Lullaby, my son / Fannie Carole Brown -- Consequence / David Reese Moody -- A deep blue feeling / Edna Gipson -- Love or life. A serpent smiles. In the name of God / Emmery Evans -- Black phoenix. What can I say? Tomorrow. Christmas in the ghetto / Blossom Powe -- Watts-little Rome / Sonora McKeller -- Memoirs of a shoeshine boy / Harley Mims -- Infinite, Me-I'm black. You and I. Who's life? One, two, three. Insanity. The question. Who's the man asleep? / Leumas Sirrah -- A black mother's plea. The promise of strangers / Birdell Chew -- Appendix : The trial of T.
Abstract Selected writings, including autobiographical essays, poems and stories, by eighteen contributors to the Watts Writers Workshop, founded in South Los Angeles after the riots of 1965.
Digital Bookplate Bookplate for Gene and Susan Roberts
Other formsAlso issued online.
Acquisitions source Joyner Rare copy gift of Gene and Susan Roberts, 2016.
Issued in other formOnline version: From the ashes. [New York] New American Library [1967]
Genre/formLiterary collections.
LCCN 67027434

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