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Booklist Editors' Choice WINNER of the Russell Freedman Award for
Non-Fiction for a Better World WINNER - International Literacy
Association (ILA) - Young Adult Nonfiction HONOR - 2023 Malka Penn
Award for Human Rights Top 10 - In the Margins Book Award Editor's
Choice - Booklist Knowledge is power. The secret is this.
Knowledge, applied at the right time and place, is more than power.
It's magic. That's what the Black Panther Party did. They called up
this magic and launched a revolution. In the beginning, it was a
story like any other. It could have been yours and it could have
been mine. But once it got going, it became more than any one
person could have imagined. This is the story of Huey and Bobby.
Eldridge and Kathleen. Elaine and Fred and Ericka. This is the
story of the committed party members. Their supporters and allies.
The Free Breakfast Program and the Ten Point Program. It's about
Black nationalism, Black radicalism, about Black people in America.
From the authors of the acclaimed book, Black Against Empire: The
History and Politics of the Black Panther Party, and introducing
new talent Jetta Grace Martin, comes the story of the Panthers for
younger readers--meticulously researched, thrillingly told, and
filled with incredible photographs throughout. P R A I S E ★ "A
passionate, honest, and intimate look into an important time in
civil rights history." --Booklist (starred) ★ "Impeccable writing
and stellar design make this title highly recommended." --School
Library Journal (starred) "Detailed, thoroughly researched...A
valuable addition to the history of African American resistance."
--Kirkus
Frederick Douglass was unquestionably the foremost black American
of the nineteenth century. The extraordinary life of this former
slave turned abolitionist orator, newspaper editor, social
reformer, race leader, and Republican party advocate has inspired
many biographies over the years. This, however, is the first
full-scale study of the origins, contours, development, and
significance of Douglass's thought. Brilliant and to a large degree
self-taught, Douglass personified intellectual activism; he
possessed a sincere concern for the uses and consequences of ideas.
Both his people's struggle for liberation and his individual
experiences, which he envisioned as symbolizing that struggle,
provided the basis and structure for his intellectual maturation.
As a representative American, he internalized and, thus, reflected
major currents in the contemporary American mind. As a
representative Afro-American, he revealed in his thinking the
deep-seated influence of race on Euro-American, Afro-American, or,
broadly conceived, American consciousness. He sought to resolve in
his thinking the dynamic tension between his identities as a black
and as an American. Martin assesses not only how Douglass dealt
with this enduring conflict, but also the extent of his success. An
inveterate belief in a universal and egalitarian humanism unified
Douglass's thought. This grand organizing principle reflected his
intellectual roots in the three major traditions of
mid-nineteenth-century American thought: Protestant Christianity,
the Enlightenment, and romanticism. Together, these influences
buttressed his characteristic optimism. Although nineteenth-century
Afro-American intellectual history derived its central premises and
outlook from concurrent American intellectual history, it offered a
searching critique of the latter and its ramifications. How to
square America's rhetoric of freedom, equality, and justice with
the reality of slavery and racial prejudice was the difficulty that
confronted such Afro-American thinkers as Douglass. |Frederick
Douglass was unquestionably the foremost black American of the
nineteenth century. The extraordinary life of this former slave
turned abolitionist orator, newspaper editor, social reformer, race
leader, and Republican party advocate has inspired many biographies
over the years. This, however, is the first full-scale study of the
origins, contours, development, and significance of Douglass's
thought.
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