A rare group of illustrated history magazines devoted to important figures and events in African American history. Published in the 1960s and 1970s, the series is designed to encourage young readers to “develop interest for further study” by employing a “a new approach to history.” The Golden Legacy series also hoped to “implant pride and self-esteem in Negro youth while dispelling myths in others.” Figures and subjects featured in the series include “Joseph Cinque and the Amistad Mutiny,” “The Saga of Harriet Tubman: The Moses of her People,” “The Life of Matthew Henson,” “Black Cowboys” and “Toussaint L’Overture and the Birth of Haiti.”
Description:
Copy 1.
Subject (Name):
Douglass, Frederick, 1818-1895
Subject (Topic):
African Americans --Biography --Periodicals and African Americans --History --Periodicals
LGBTQ Resource and Teaching resource: Professor George Chauncey, History 460 / American Studies 353 / Women's, Gender, & Sexuality Studies 348, Selected Topics in Lesbian and Gay History
Advertising matter on half title verso., Bookplate of Leonard and Lisa Baskin. Advertising matter on [4] p. at end not noted in pagination., Illustrated title page and lining papers., Includes index., and Printed publisher's permission slip laid in: The publishers have to thank Messrs. Houghton Mifflin Company for permission to make use of the poems by Whittier, Longfellow, and Oliver Wendell Holmes which are included in this volume.
