Volume 42, Number 7 · April 20, 1995
Professionals
By Darryl Pinckney
Laughing in the Dark: From Colored Girl to Woman of Color—A Journey from Prison to Power
by Patrice Gaines
Crown, 295 pp., $24.00
OTHER BOOKS MENTIONED IN THIS ESSAY
Volunteer Slavery: My Authentic Negro Experience
by Jill Nelson
Penguin, 244 pp., $9.95 (paper)
Crusade for Justice: The Autobiography of Ida B. Wells
University of Chicago Press, 434 pp., $16.95 (paper)
Along This Way: The Autobiography of James Weldon Johnson
Introduction by Sondra K. Wilson
Penguin, 432 pp., $9.95 (paper)
In My Place
by Charlayne Hunter-Gault
Vintage, 257 pp., $11.00 (paper)
Warriors Don't Cry
by Melba Beals
Washington Square Press, 312 pp., $10.00 (paper)
A Man's Life: An Autobiography
by Roger Wilkins
Ox Bow, 384 pp., $15.95 (paper)
Children of the Dream: The Psychology of Black Success
by Audrey Edwards, by Craig K. Polite
Anchor, 287 pp., $10.95 (paper)
The Rage of a Privileged Class: Why Do Prosperous Blacks Still Have the Blues?
by Ellis Cose
HarperPerennial, 192 pp., $12.00 (paper)
Out of the Madness: From the Projects to a Life of Hope
by Jerrold Ladd
Warner, 195 pp., $19.95
Bourgeois Blues An American Memoir
by Jake Lamar
Plume, 174 pp., $9.00 (paper)
From the start black newspapers tended to appear when circumstances made influencing white opinion and unifying the insurgent spirit among blacks a 'strange necessity,' as one pre-Civil War black editor termed it. When Frederick Douglass began publishing his antislavery weekly North Star, in Rochester, New York, in 1847, some white abolitionists considered it presumptuous of him to be lecturing them in print on principles of liberty. 'Let us have the facts. We'll take care of the philosophy.' Not only North Star but the three other newspaper ventures that Douglass undertook were all extensions of his work as a lecturer and writer, a continuation of his leadership by other means.
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