Case 7: 1915-1929 |
In 1915 D. W. Griffith's infamous film Birth of a Nation was released. It was during this period that W. E. B. Dubois strongly encouraged black writers to create books specifically for black children. In response The Brownie's Book, a children's version of the NAACP magazine, was published during the 1920s, featuring a variety of stories and articles. Most children's books, however, resembled those written after the turn of the century. Sources: Murray, Gail Schmunk. American Children's Literature and the Construction of Childhood. New York: Twayne Publishers, 1998. Fahs, Alice. The Imagined Civil War: Popular Literature of the North and South, 1861 - 1865. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1990. Books: 1. Altsheler,
Joseph A. Before the Dawn, a Story of the Fall of Richmond. New
York: Doubleday, Page & Company, 1903. Williamson Collection PS
3501 L85 B44 1903. 4. Curtis,
Alice T. Yankee Girl at Shiloh. Philadelphia: The Penn Publishing
Company, 1922. 6. Brownie's Book, July 1920. Photograph courtesy of the Schomberg Center for the Study of Black Culture. |
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