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panader0

(25,816 posts) Mon Dec 29, 2014, 08:54 PM Dec 2014

Books I read in '68: Soul On Ice by Eldridge Cleaver, The Wretched of the Earth Frantz Fanon, Auto-

biography of Malcom X. Preface To a Twenty Page Suicide Note by Leroi Jones (Amiri Baraka). I took a class in Black Literature and it had a profound effect on me. I am struck by the idea that these books need to be re-read these days.

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Books I read in '68: Soul On Ice by Eldridge Cleaver, The Wretched of the Earth Frantz Fanon, Auto- (Original Post) panader0 Dec 2014 OP

Eldridge was attending my church in the late 1980s. kwassa Dec 2014 #1

Have all those books BumRushDaShow Dec 2014 #2

kwassa

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1. Eldridge was attending my church in the late 1980s.

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Mon Dec 29, 2014, 09:12 PM

Dec 2014

although he was supposedly a Republican Mormon at that point. He looked like somebody's kindly grandfather, and walked with a cane, though he was only in his fifties. He looked older. He was still trying to flirt with the choir director.

BumRushDaShow

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2. Have all those books

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Mon Dec 29, 2014, 09:32 PM

Dec 2014

purchased by my parents. I believe they had gotten them from the Book of the Month club back then. Also add "The Souls of Black Folks" & "The Philadelphia Negro" (Dubois), and "Before the Mayflower" by Lerone Bennett.

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