1st Edition

Black Lives Essays in African American Biography

By James L. Conyers Copyright 1999
    238 Pages
    by Routledge

    238 Pages
    by Routledge

    The chapters in this text comprise biographical sketches of previously unknown (or lesser known) African-Americans, among them General Daniel Chappie James Jr; William Levi Dawson (composer); Vinnette Carroll (director and playwright); and Elizabeth Ross Haynes (political speaker and activist).

    I. Intellectual Biography. 1. Maulana Karenga, Kawaida, and Phenomenology: An Intellectual Study, James L. Conyers, Jr. 2. Vinnette Carroll: African American Director/Playwright, Calvin A. McClinton. 3. Higher Than the Eagle: The Legacy of General Daniel "Chappie" James, Jr., Earnest Bracey. 4. The Shaping of a Public Biography: Richard Allen and the A.M.E. Church, 1831-1894, Mitchell Kachun. II. Cultural Biography. 5. Cultural Gods and Goddesses: Transformation Versus Conversion in the Lfe Studies of Malcolm X and Harriet Jacobs, Elaine DeLancey. 6. Besse Head: The Idealist, Owen G. Mordaunt. 7. Working Toward the Betterment of the Community: Elizabeth Ross Haynes, LaVerne Gyant. 8. William Levi Dawson: A Black Composer Speaks, Ralph Anthony Russell. 9. Keeping the Truth on My Side: Maria Stewart, 1803-1870, Ida Young. III. Oral History and Biography as Teaching Tools. 10. Through Trinbagonian Eyes: Self Portrait of a Caribbean Country, clement London. 11. Life Ain't Been No Crystal Stair: Black Female Slave Narratives and Communication Scholarship, Olga I. Davis. 12. Literary Biographical Profiles as Teaching Tools in a University Black History Course, Robin Balthrope. 13. Malcolm X: An Intellectual Aesthetic for Black Adult Education, Andrew Smallwood. 14. Dr. James Emman Kwegyir Aggrey of Achimota: A Preacher, Scholar, Teacher, and a Gentleman, Daniel Boamah-Wiafe. 15. Bothersome Biography: Emmett Jay Scott, 1873-1957, Maceo Crenshaw Dailey.

    Biography

    James L. Conyers, Jr.