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A Documentary History of the Negro People of the United States
Herbert Aptheker · 2000 · 585 pages
Completes a definitive history, spanning the seventeenth century to the present, constructed from letters, speeches, leaflets, books, newspaper articles and other documents from the period written by black Americans themselves. Simultaneous.
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Howard Zinn
“An extremely valuable, I am tempted to say indispensable, collection – not at all dry, as are some documentaries.”↗