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):
Pushkin, Aleksandr Sergeevich, 1799-1837
Subject (Topic):
African Americans --Biography --Periodicals and African Americans --History --Periodicals
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):
Banneker, Benjamin, 1731-1806
Subject (Topic):
African Americans --Biography --Periodicals and African Americans --History --Periodicals
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):
King, Martin Luther, Jr., 1929-1968
Subject (Topic):
African Americans --Biography --Periodicals and African Americans --History --Periodicals
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):
Henson, Matthew Alexander, 1866-1955
Subject (Topic):
African Americans --Biography --Periodicals and African Americans --History --Periodicals
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):
Smalls, Robert, 1839-1915
Subject (Topic):
African Americans --Biography --Periodicals and African Americans --History --Periodicals
Our eternity., Unknown guest., and Wrack of the storm.
Description:
Binding design, signed D[backward D], by Decorative Designers., Bookplate of Leonard and Lisa Baskin. Inscribed: A very Merry Christmas 1917 to Faith from Russell., Introduction -- Our injustice to death -- Annihilation -- Communications with the dead -- The fate of our consciousness -- Two aspects of infinity -- Our fate in those infinities -- Conclusions -- The knowledge of the future -- Heroism -- On rereading Thucydides -- The dead do not die. -- In memoriam -- The life of the dead -- The war and the prophets -- The will of earth -- When the war is over., The "essays ... are taken [from] Our eternity, The unknown guest and The wrack of the storm"--P. vii., and Translated from the French.
Publisher:
Dodd, Mead and Company,
Subject (Topic):
Future life, Parapsychology, and Parapsychology--Research
