African-American Writers and Journalists spans nearly three centuries of literary and journalistic history, from a long-unpublished ballad composed in the 1740s by a slave named Lucy Terry to the works of the Nobel Prize-winning novelist Toni Morrison. It tells the stories of figures such as Frederick Douglass, whose towering intellect and powerful prose helped animate the movement to abolish slavery; Ida B. Wells and Charlotta Bass, journalists who risked their lives to report on racial violence and injustice; and Ralph Ellison and Richard Wright, who challenged society with hard questions about race and equality.
- ISBN10 1422292827
- ISBN13 9781422292822
- Publish Date 2 September 2014 (first published 1 September 2012)
- Publish Status Active
- Publish Country US
- Publisher Start Publishing
- Imprint Mason Crest
- Format eBook (EPUB)
- Pages 64
- Language English