ABSTRACT
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).
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part |63 pages
Intellectual Biography
chapter |20 pages
The Shaping of a Public Biography
Richard Allen and the African Methodist Episcopal Church
part |64 pages
Cultural Biography
part |82 pages
Oral History and Biography as Teaching Tools
chapter |9 pages
Life Ain't Been No Crystal Stair
The Rhetoric of Autobiography in Black Female Slave Narratives
chapter |15 pages
Dr. James Emman Kwegyir Aggrey of Achimota
Preacher, Scholar, Teacher, and Gentleman
