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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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DN10
Writing
History of Blacks & Securing
the Future
June
4, 1944, Monday evening
I
went and called up Saxon. . . . I told him about Bontemps'
letter about trying to find a publisher, and he said that he
felt the same way—that he had no doubts about finding a
publisher once it was complete. Then I told him about my slight
worry that somebody might try to have some one else supersede
me--not definite, but something I'd like to have settled.
He
said that after all, he left the manuscript fully into my hands
that he has nothing to do with it, and nobody else has anything.
I told him that I was not sure that that was understood
elsewhere, and that I did not want to go too deeply into it
then, but that was one of the things I wanted clarified when I
finished it. That I was not going to make any demands for
reassurances now, but that I would before I submit it out there.
(If
Dillard gets it that way—or maybe they have—then I may find
that they are not at all interested in it out there. Then I will
have to make sure that it is so good that they won't need to put
their hands on it. Now I am beginning to see light. Maybe that
is why Dent has proved so uncooperative—he understood something
of the kind before now.)
I
asked Saxon how he was feeling and he said pretty good, and then
I told him that I had been so pressed mentally that I had taken
two or three days off—that I found out that the chapter on
slave buying, selling, and stealing—that I was once proud of—is now woefully inadequate, just like Reddick's material was
when I started writing on the book, and that I have begun
rewriting it altogether. We parted nicely, I telling him that I would call Wednesday at 11.
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Selected Letters
Selected Diary Notes 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 publications. |
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Audio:
My Story, My Song (Featuring blues guitarist Walter Wolfman Washington)
update 4 February 2012
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