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Soulbook

Soulbook is a periodical that features essays, poems, reflections, cartoons, and other artistic works intended to further the cause of the Black Liberation Movement. Topics include jazz, poetry, economics and anti-imperialism.

Documents

Soulbook #1: the quarterly journal of revolutionary Afroamerica Soulbook #1: the quarterly journal of revolutionary Afroamerica
Publisher: Afro-American Research InstitutionYear: 1964Volume Number: Vol. 1-1 WinterFormat: PeriodicalCollection: Soulbook
Table of Contents: Black Nationalism on the Right; US, The Congo and the OAS; Reject Notes (poetry); The Real Reasons Tanganyika and Zanzibar United and Became Tanzania; On Methods of Leadership; Puddn' Head and the Negro- A Study of Mark Twain's anti-negro attittudes; Memorandum to the United Nations on Political Detainees and Political Prisoners in South Africa; Annotated Bibliography on the South African Situtation; The Masters and the Slaves (review); A Short History of Africa (review); Delicate Child.
Soulbook #2: the quarterly journal of revolutionary Afroamerica Soulbook #2: the quarterly journal of revolutionary Afroamerica
Publisher: Afro-American Research InstitutionYear: 1965Volume Number: Vol. 1-2 SpringFormat: PeriodicalCollection: Soulbook
Table of Contents: El Hajji Malik Shabazz- Leader, Prophet, Martyr; Did the United Nations Benefit Congo?; American Savagery and the Future; The Toilet- Is it a Masterpiece, of is it trash? A debate Between Langston Hughes and Bobb Hamilton; To All the Freedom Loving Peoples of the World; Reject Notes (poetry); Letter to Draft Board 100, Wayne County, Detroit, Michigan; WEB DuBois- Black militant or Negro Leader?; Apartheid is doomed!; The Negro Image in Western Art.