No More Lies: The Myth and Reality of American HistoryHarperCollins, 16 feb 2021 - 400 pagina's Republished as part of Amistad’s Literary Revival Program, the groundbreaking, bestselling look at history from the perspective of African Americans: an essential classic that continues to speak to us today, written by the voice of black consciousness, Dick Gregory—the incomparable satirist, human rights and environmental activist, health advocate, social justice champion, and NAACP Image Award–winning author. No More Lies offers this incomparable satirist’s intellectual, conspiratorial, and humorous spin on the facts. No subject is off limits from his critical eye—Gregory examines numerous aspects of culture and history, from the slave trade, police brutality, the wretchedness of working-class life and labor unions to the 1968 Civil Rights Act, the Founding Fathers, “happy slaves,” and entrepreneurs. Although this absorbing book is more than forty years old, its provocative truths continue to reverberate in our lives today. With No More Lies, Gregory inspire a new generation to connect what is happening today with what has happened in the past. |
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... kids, and all of a sudden here comes a white lady dancing across the screen, half naked, saying, “Buy a Playtex ... kid growing up in the ghetto of St. Louis, I used to go to the movie theater every night. The theater was warmer in the ...
... kids were losing contact with English culture. William Bradford felt the Dutch language was “uncouth.” America seemed to be the answer. The Puritans got permission from the Virginia Company's London branch, found some financial backing ...
... kids in public school assemblies re-enact that first New England feast, complete with funny hats and costumes, and always, of course, carrying muskets. THE ROCK IS ROCKY Of course there were too many slaves in the English colonies for ...
... kids off the streets and into the colonies. Poor folks in general and kids in particular, with whom England was “pestered,” were sent to the colonies. King James himself sent off a group of “Duty boys” on the ship Duty: “divers young ...
... kid. I went to bed hungry every night, unless I was lucky enough to grab a biscuit my brothers didn't see me take. But if I had gone to bed and turned on the Tonight show, where one commercial showed me more food than our family saw in ...
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The Myth of the Savage | |
The Myth of the Founding Fathers | |
The Myth of Black Content | |
The Myth of the Courageous White Settler and the Free Frontier | |
The Myth of the MasonDixon Line | |
The Myth of Free Enterprise | |
The Myth of Emancipation | |
The Myth of the Bootstrap | |
The Myth of the Good Neighbor | |
The Myth of American Rhetoric | |
The Myth of Free Elections | |
Dr Martin Luther Kings Last Message to America | |
Index | |
About the Author | |