A volume of beauty and power, a record of black excellence that will engage and inform, this portfolio constitutes a stunning celebration of African American achievement in the 20th century. Arranged chronologically, each image "demonstrates how the achievements of one generation are extended and magnified through the achievements of succeeding generations". 83 photorgaphs.
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A volume of beauty and power, a record of black excellence that will engage and inform, this portfolio constitutes a stunning celebration of African American achievement in the 20th century. Arranged chronologically, each image "demonstrates how the achievements of one generation are extended and magnified through the achievements of succeeding generations". 83 photorgaphs.
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1993. The University of Georgia Press. Book-Good, top & bottom of spine rubbed. DJ-Good, slight edgewear. 11. x8.5. 172pp. Profuse b/w photographs by Carl Van Vechten.
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Very Good. Size: 11x8x0; Flat signed by Rudolph P. Byrd on title page. From the library of Dr. Ralph Gomes, Howard University. Hardcover and dust jacket. Good binding and cover. Shelf wear. Jacket sunned. Clean, unmarked pages. *Autographed by editor. * "Rudolph P. Byrd (1953-2011) was a professor of American and African American studies and the founding director of the James Weldon Johnson Institute at Emory University. He and Beverly Guy-Sheftall of Spelman College were the founding co-chairs of the Alice Walker Literary Society. His several awards and fellowships include the Thomas Jefferson Award from Emory University; the Governor's Award in the Humanities; the Dick Bathrick Activist Award from Men Stopping Violence of Atlanta, Georgia; the Andrew W. Mellon Fellowship at Harvard University."-The New Press Dr. Gomes was a professor at Howard University for 49 years in sociology and criminology. He was also a former Olympic athlete, representing Guyana in the 1960 Rome summer Olympics. Besides his scholarly work, Gomes was active in the black liberation movement. He had an impressive and deep collection of black art, historical advertising and iconography that spoke of the passage of black people and how they sought to record their life stories. His collection spanned from slavery, to antebellum life, to Jim Crow, to the Harlem Renaissance, to sport, to the civil rights movement.