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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... on me right now.” So I started reading, “We hold these Truths to be self-evident, that all Men are created equal.” You can imagine how those words sounded to my young, black, ghetto ears. But wanting to Introduction: For White Only.
The Myth and Reality of American History Dick Gregory. sounded to my young, black, ghetto ears. But wanting to graduate, I kept right on reading until I got to the section which said: —That whenever any Form of Government becomes ...
... young, because they really do not know, or admit, their own history. In the past Americans condemned Indian massacres. Today they bemoan the black crime rate and place the statements of militant black leaders and radical young whites in ...
... young black minds at a very early age. When I was a little 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 winter than it was at home, and cooler in the summer ...
... . Think of the only country in the history of the world that dropped atomic bombs on other human beings now coming to black folks, poor folks, and young folks telling them to be nonviolent! Truman Nelson in The Right of Revolution ...
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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 | |