Wade in the water : great moments in Black history

Author/Creator:

Bennett, Lerone, Jr., 1928-2018

Publication/Creation:

Chicago : Johnson Pub. Co., [1979]

Resource Type:

Book

Edition:

1st edition.

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Additional/Related Title Information

Full Title:

Wade in the water : great moments in Black history / Lerone Bennett, Jr.

Related Names

Additional Author/Creators:

Bennett, Lerone, Jr., 1928-2018, inscriber
Thurman, Howard, 1900-1981, former owner
Thurman, Sue Bailey, former owner

Subjects/Genre

Genre:

African American author

Subjects:

African Americans--History
United States--Race relations

Description/Summary

Table of Contents:

Home in that Rock: First black convention -- No hidin' place: Nat Turner's bloody sermon -- He who is whipped: "Trial" of Frederick Douglass -- Sweet chariot: Private war of Harriet Tubman -- Black and blue: Shootout at Chaffin's farm -- Almost free at last: Day slavery died -- Black and white: People's convention -- Sunrise at Harpers Ferry: Prelude to protest -- Eagle in the air: Jack Johnson and the great white hope -- Storm warning: Marcus Garvey's hour of triumph -- This train: Day they didn't march -- Write my name: D-Day at the Supreme Court -- Walk together, children: Beginning of the Black revolution -- All God's children: Five-and-dime bastille -- Good news: Day they marched -- Selected biography -- Index.

Summary:

Wade In the Water gives the reader a front-row seat at some of the most dramatic events in American history. Starting with the founding of Black America at the first Black convention, the book re-creates the drama and the human dimensions of Nat Turner's slave revolt and Harriet Tubman's slave raids and makes the reader a witness and a participant in key events of the Civil War, Reconstruction, and the Freedom Movement of the twentieth century. There is also a pioneering chapter on sports as history, Jack Johnson and the Great White Hope, which was the basis of the national television.

Language:

English

Physical Type/Description:

315 pages : illustrations ; 27 cm

Local Note:

Manuscript, Archives, and Rare Book Library copy has dust jacket; has presentation inscription: For Sue Bailey Thurman and Howard Thurman, who have been [illegible] in the [illegible], and teaching, with respect and many thanks, Lerone Bennett. 11/18/'79; from the library of Howard and Sue Bailey Thurman.

Additional Identifiers

Catalog ID (MMSID):

990019833810302486

ISBN:

0874850797
9780874850796

OCLC Number:

05029801
5029801

Barcode:

010000667881
000016010718
000020247925