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Untold Glory
Alan B. Govenar
其他書名
African Americans in Pursuit of Freedom, Opportunity, and Achievement
出版
Harlem Moon/Broadway Books
, 2007
主題
Biography & Autobiography / Cultural, Ethnic & Regional / General
History / Historiography
History / United States / General
History / African American & Black
Literary Collections / Interviews
Psychology / Creative Ability
Social Science / Ethnic Studies / American / African American & Black Studies
Social Science / Black Studies (Global)
ISBN
0767921178
9780767921176
URL
http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=UXx2AAAAMAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
註釋
Untold Glory
offers a fresh perspective on one of the most fundamental elements of American history—the conquest of new frontiers. In twenty-seven fascinating first-person accounts, African Americans from different eras, backgrounds, and occupations explore and reflect on the meaning of
frontier
, both literally and metaphorically.
This collection chronicles the search for freedom and opportunity and the achievement of success in a wide variety of fields. The contributors all pushed beyond self-imposed or culturally enforced boundaries to pursue their dreams and ambitions. They include Mark Dean, an IBM vice president and member of the Inventors Hall of Fame, who holds three of the original patents upon which the personal computer is based; the civil-rights attorney Oliver W. Hill, one of the architects of the
Brown v. Board of Education
Supreme Court case; the classical pianist and museum founder Josephine Love; and L. Douglas Wilder, the grandson of slaves who became the first African American governor of Virginia.
Illustrated with black-and-white photographs and featuring an incisive introduction by Alan Govenar,
Untold Glory
is both an important addition to the field of African American history and an engaging, eye-opening look at some of the nation’s most daring, innovative, and influential pioneers.