Still I Rise: A Graphic History of African Americans
- Annotation:
- Two narrators take the reader through the history of African Americans in the United States. Coverage starts with the slave trade and ends with the election of Barack Obama in 2008.
- Creators:
- Author - Roland Laird
- Author - Taneshia Nash Laird
- Author - Elihu "Adofo" Bey
- Publication Information:
- Sterling, New York, 2009
- Color or Black & White:
- Genre:
- Non-Fiction
- Bibliography Available:
- Yes
- Original Language:
- English
- Historical Topic/Event:
- Slavery
- Geographic Setting:
- United States
- Date Range:
- 1618 - 2008
- Tags:
- racism, race relations, African Americans, civil rights movements, jim crow, segregation, reconstruction, Frederick Douglass, W.E.B. DeBois, Malcolm X, Booker T. Washington, Martin Luther King Jr., slavery
- Notes:
- The foreward is an essay by Charles Johnson entitled ""A Capsule History of Blacks in Comics.""
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