We walk the way of the New World / Don L. Lee.

Accession number: 
PML 198553
Author: 
Madhubuti, Haki R., 1942-
Published: 
Detroit : Broadside Press, 1970.
Description: 
71 pages ; 22 cm
Credit: 
Purchased on the Edwin V. Erbe, Jr. Acquisitions Fund, 2020.
Notes: 

First printing, March 1970.
"The beautiful cover is the creation of brother Omar Lama [John Porter, born 1942]--if it ain't togatha I don't know what is; wd like to thank him again."--Verso of title page.
Price on cover: $1.50.
"Don Lee has no patience with black writers who do not direct their blackness toward black audiences. He keeps interesting facts alive in his mind. 'I was born into slavery in February of 1942. In the spring of that same year 110,000 persons of Japanese descent were placed in protective custody by the white people of the United States... No charges had been filed against these people nor had any hearing been held. The removal of these people was on racial grounds only. World War II, the war against racism; yet no Germans or other enemy aliens were placed in protective custody'..."--Blurb by Gwendolyn Brooks on the back cover. (Brooks ends her blurb with an offensive question in parentheses, making a connection between the color yellow and writers of Japanese origin).

Binding: 
Pictorial wrappers illustrated by Omar Lama, saddle stitched; author's portrait on back cover.
Inscriptions/Markings: 

With several notes and underscorings by D.H. Melhem.

Provenance: 
D.H. Melhem (1926-2013).
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