Black ink : literary legends on the peril, power, and pleasure of reading and writing / edited by Stephanie Stokes Oliver ; foreword by Nikki Giovanni.
Spanning 250 years, a collection highlights the hard-won literary progress of black people in America, who were once forbidden by law to learn how to read, with essays from Frederick Douglass, Solomon Northup, Booker T. Washington, Maya Angelou and many more.
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Anthology.
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 237-240).