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Books by Marcus Bruce
Christian
Song of the Black Valiants: Marching Tempo
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High Ground: A Collection of Poems /
Negro soldiers in the Battle of New Orleans
I am New
Orleans: A Poem
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Negro Iron Workers of Louisiana: 1718-1900 /
The Liberty Monument
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Lyle
Saxon Leaves Dillard University
WPA Negro History Material
December 31, 1942
Mr. A.W. Dent, President
Dillard University
New Orleans, La.
My dear Mr. Dent:
I take this means of making official confirmation of the assurances made to you at the
beginning of the week concerning the source and research material that I am to leave with
Dillard University, with the understanding that every effort will be made to complete the work which we have been forced to discontinue.
As I stated to you at the time, we are leaving most of the work done on the writers' project in the care of Louisiana
State Library Commission, the sponsor of the project. In the case of the Dillard material, however, I have discussed with
Marcus B. Christian the availability of leaving the Negro material where it is at present, and the possibility of work
being continued on the book, THE NEGRO IN LOUISIANA, until it is completed. Being assured of his intentions in that
direction, and with the understanding that the university would give him all aid possible, it was largely due to his
solicitations that I have concluded that your institution is the logical place in which to allow it to remain.
Although I shall be in Washington for a few months, I would like to know from time to time just how the work is
progressing, and when it has been finished, I would also like to be able to help in getting it to the attention of a
publisher, as well as being allowed to write the foreword in which I would like to give you and Christian the proper credit
in the writing and publishing of the work.
Sincerely,
Lyle Saxon, Regional Director
Louisiana Writers' Project
Canal Building, New Orleans, La.
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Dr. Albert W. Dent
(1904-1984), the university's third
president served from 1940 to 1969, under his leadership Dillard University
became a charter member of the United Negro College Fund in 1944, and in 1958
was admitted to membership in the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools.
The university gymnasium named in his honor was rededicated on October 14, 1999.
Built in 1969 at the end of his service, Dent Hall is the home of the Blue
Devils and the Lady Blue Devils basketball teams. A graduate of Morehouse College, Mr.
Dent became superintendent of Flint-Goodridge Hospital after a brief business
career in Georgia and Texas. For six years he served simultaneously as business
manager of Dillard University and superintendent of Flint-Goodridge Hospital. In
1931 he married Ernestine Jessie Covington. From 1941 to 1969 Albert Dent was
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Marcus Bruce
Christian
Selected Diary Notes
/ Selected Poems
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Selected Letters
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Memories of Marcus B. Christian
(Cains) Christian's
BioBibliographical Record Introduction to I AM NEW
ORLEANS
A
Theory of a Black Aesthetic Magpies,
Goddesses, & Black Male Identity
Activist Works on Next Level of Change
Intro to I Am New
Orleans
Letter from Dillard University
A
Labor of Genuine Love
Letter of Gift of
Photos
Letters from
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Negro Iron Workers of Louisiana: 1718-1900
By Marcus Bruce Christian
Study of the blacksmith tradition and New
Orleans famous lace balconies and fences.
Acclaimed during his life
as the unofficial poet laureate of the New Orleans
African-American community, Marcus Christian recorded a
distinguished career as historian, journalist, and literary
scholar. He was a contributor to Pelican's
Gumbo Ya Ya, and also wrote many articles that appeared
in numerous newspapers, journals, and general-interest
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Salvage the Bones
A Novel by Jesmyn Ward
On one level, Salvage the Bones is a simple story about a poor black family that’s about to be trashed by one of the most deadly hurricanes in U.S. history. What makes the novel so powerful, though, is the way Ward winds private passions with that menace gathering force out in the Gulf of Mexico. Without a hint of pretension, in the simple lives of these poor people living among chickens and abandoned cars, she evokes the tenacious love and desperation of classical tragedy. The force that pushes back against Katrina’s inexorable winds is the voice of Ward’s narrator, a 14-year-old girl named Esch, the only daughter among four siblings. Precocious, passionate and sensitive, she speaks almost entirely in phrases soaked in her family’s raw land. Everything here is gritty, loamy and alive, as though the very soil were animated. Her brother’s “blood smells like wet hot earth after summer rain. . . . His scalp looks like fresh turned dirt.” Her father’s hands “are like gravel,” while her own hand “slides through his grip like a wet fish,” and a handsome boy’s “muscles jabbered like chickens.” Admittedly, Ward can push so hard on this simile-obsessed style that her paragraphs risk sounding like a compost heap, but this isn’t usually just metaphor for metaphor’s sake. She conveys something fundamental about Esch’s fluid state of mind: her figurative sense of the world in which all things correspond and connect. She and her brothers live in a ramshackle house steeped in grief since their mother died giving birth to her last child. . . . What remains, what’s salvaged, is something indomitable in these tough siblings, the strength of their love, the permanence of their devotion.— WashingtonPost
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The Looting of America: How Wall Street's Game of Fantasy Finance
Destroyed Our Jobs, Pensions, and Prosperity—and What We Can Do About It
By Les Leopold
How could the best and brightest (and most highly paid) in finance crash the global economy and then get us to bail them out as well? What caused this mess in the first place? Housing? Greed? Dumb politicians? What can Main Street do about it? In The Looting of America, Leopold debunks the prevailing media myths that blame low-income home buyers who got in over their heads, people who ran up too much credit-card debt, and government interference with free markets. Instead, readers will discover how Wall Street undermined itself and the rest of the economy by playing and losing at a highly lucrative and dangerous game of fantasy finance. He also asks some tough questions: Why did Americans let the gap between workers' wages and executive compensation grow so large? Why did we fail to realize that the excess money in those executives' pockets was fueling casino-style investment schemes? Why did we buy the notion that too-good-to-be-true financial products that no one could even understand would somehow form the backbone of America's new, postindustrial economy? How do we make sure we never give our wages away to gamblers again? And what can we do to get our money back? In this page-turning narrative (no background in finance required) Leopold tells the story of how we fell victim to Wall Street's exotic financial products. Readers learn how even school districts were taken in by "innovative" products like collateralized debt obligations, better known as CDOs, and how they sucked trillions of dollars from the global economy when they failed. They'll also learn what average Americans can do to ensure that fantasy finance never rules our economy again. The Economy |
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The White Masters of the
World
From
The World and Africa, 1965
By W. E. B. Du Bois
W. E. B. Du Bois’
Arraignment and Indictment of White Civilization
(Fletcher)
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