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Black Thought and Culture
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- Description
- Black Thought and Culture offers the full text of approximately 100,000 pages of non-fiction
writing by
leading figures in African American life and culture, including Frederick Douglas, W.E.B. Du Bois,
Ida Wells, A. Phillip
Randolph, Martin Luther King, Jr., Jesse Jackson and hundreds of others. Types of material include
articles and essays,
monographs, speeches, interviews, pamphlets and correspondence. Approximately twenty percent is
previously unpublished,
including transcripts from the Columbia University Oral History Project. Also available online for
the first time is the
complete run of the Black Panther newspaper, 1966 through 1980.
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- Dates covered
- Certain documents go as far back as the early eighteenth century, but most are from the twentieth
century. There is a wide selection of abolitionists' writings from the nineteenth century.
- Updating frequency
- The collection is complete.
- Sources
- Books (including speeches, correspondence, etc.), journals and magazines, newspapers, oral history
transcripts, archival material.
- Type of coverage
- Full text.
- Print Counterpart or related resources
- Approximately eighty percent of the material was previously published in books or periodicals.
- Producer/content provider
- Alexander Street Press
- Vendor/electronic presentation provider
- Alexander Street Press
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