Overview
Stories From the Brownies Book is a new collection of tales celebrating African American childrenās literature and the groundbreaking work of the N.A.A.C.P. Originally conceived by W.E.B. DuBois, Jessie Redmon Fauset, and Augustus Granville Dill, The Brownies Book was a one-of-a-kind literary magazine that was the first to cater specifically to Black children.
With over two dozen works of fiction such as, āA Visit to Fairyland,ā āHow Brāer Possum Outwitted Brāer Rabbit,ā and āThose Who Have No Turkey,ā as well as selected biographies of legendary Black figures including Benjamin Banneker, Toussaint Lāouverture, and Alexandre Dumas; Stories From the Brownies Book offers some of the best childrenās literature of the early twentieth century.
āThis was inevitable in our role as newspaperābut what effect must it have on our children? To educate them in human hatred is more disastrous to them than to the hated; to seek to raise them in ignorance of their racial identity and peculiar situation is inadvisableāimpossibleā¦there seems but one alternative: We shall publish hereafter not one Children's Number a year, but twelve! Messrs. DuBois and Dill will issue in November, in co-operation with the crisis, but as an entirely separate publication, a little magazine for childrenāfor all children, but especially for ours, āthe Children of the Sun.ā It will be called, naturally, The Brownies' Book, and as we have advertised, āIt will be a thing of Joy and Beauty, dealing in Happiness, Laughter and Emulation, and designed especially for Kiddies from Six to Sixteen. It will seek to teach Universal Love and Brotherhood for all little folkāblack and brown and yellow and white.ā"
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This book title, Stories from the Brownie Book, ISBN: 9798888975381, by Mint Editions, published by Mint Editions (May 7, 2024) is available in paperback. Our minimum order quantity is 25 copies. All standard bulk book orders ship FREE in the continental USA and delivered in 4-10 business days.
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