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245 10 a| Black genius and the American experience /c| Dick Russell ; foreword by Alvin F. Poussaint.;

250 a| 1st Carroll & Graf ed.;

260 a| New York :b| Carroll & Graf,c| 1998.;

300 a| xii, 497 pages, 32 unnumbered pages of plates :b| illustrations ;c| 25 cm;

336 a| text2| rdacontent;

337 a| unmediated2| rdamedia;

338 a| volume2| rdacarrier;

504 a| Includes bibliographical references (p. [475]-480) and index.;

505 0 a| Ancestors--Ellington's mentor: Will Marion Cook -- Albert Murray and Louis Armstrong -- The craft of Ralph Ellison -- From Duke Ellington to Wynton Marsalis -- Variations on a theme : Romare Bearden, artist -- Ancestors--Meta Warrick Fuller, sculptor -- The painters : Lois Mailou Jones and Jacob Lawrence -- All the world's their stage : Paul Robeson and Ira Aldridge -- Gordon Parks : a lens on humanity -- Ancestors--Mary McLeod Bethune, educator -- A teacher's mission : Elma Lewis -- The philosophers : Cornel West and the Du Bois/Locke legacy -- Toni Morrison : Nobel prize for literature -- Timeless voices, parallel realities : James Baldwin and Frederick Douglass.;

505 0 a| (Cont'd) Ancestors--Lewis Latimer and the early black inventors -- The laser physicist and the computer wizard : Earl and Alan Shaw -- Bob Moses and the algebra project -- Ancestors--The astronomer/surveyor : Benjamin Banneker -- The architects : Charles and Cheryl McAfee -- Ancestors--the physician's Louis Tompkins Wright and Jane Cooke Wright -- Byllye Avery and the National Black Women's Health Project -- Ancestors--Sojourner Truth and the nineteenth-century visionaries -- Howard Thurman, Benjamin Mays, and the Martin Luther King legacy.;

541 3| Joyner Rare copyc| gift ofa| Gene and Susan Roberts,d| 2016.;

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650 0 a| African American intellectualsv| Biography.=| ^A989818;

650 0 a| African American artistsv| Biography.=| ^A989819;

650 0 a| Geniusz| United States.=| ^A29743;

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Black genius and the American experience / Dick Russell ; foreword by Alvin F. Poussaint.

Author/creator	Russell, Dick
Format	Book
Edition	1st Carroll & Graf ed.
Publication Info	New York : Carroll & Graf, 1998.
Description	xii, 497 pages, 32 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm
Subjects	African Americans--Intellectual life. African American intellectuals--Biography. African American artists--Biography. Genius--United States.

Contents	Ancestors--Ellington's mentor: Will Marion Cook -- Albert Murray and Louis Armstrong -- The craft of Ralph Ellison -- From Duke Ellington to Wynton Marsalis -- Variations on a theme : Romare Bearden, artist -- Ancestors--Meta Warrick Fuller, sculptor -- The painters : Lois Mailou Jones and Jacob Lawrence -- All the world's their stage : Paul Robeson and Ira Aldridge -- Gordon Parks : a lens on humanity -- Ancestors--Mary McLeod Bethune, educator -- A teacher's mission : Elma Lewis -- The philosophers : Cornel West and the Du Bois/Locke legacy -- Toni Morrison : Nobel prize for literature -- Timeless voices, parallel realities : James Baldwin and Frederick Douglass.
Contents	(Cont'd) Ancestors--Lewis Latimer and the early black inventors -- The laser physicist and the computer wizard : Earl and Alan Shaw -- Bob Moses and the algebra project -- Ancestors--The astronomer/surveyor : Benjamin Banneker -- The architects : Charles and Cheryl McAfee -- Ancestors--the physician's Louis Tompkins Wright and Jane Cooke Wright -- Byllye Avery and the National Black Women's Health Project -- Ancestors--Sojourner Truth and the nineteenth-century visionaries -- Howard Thurman, Benjamin Mays, and the Martin Luther King legacy.
Local note	Little-305693--305131011185T
Bibliography note	Includes bibliographical references (p. [475]-480) and index.
Digital Bookplate	Bookplate for Gene and Susan Roberts
Acquisitions source	Joyner Rare copy gift of Gene and Susan Roberts, 2016.
LCCN	97034048
ISBN	0786704551

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