Die Nigger Die!
Overview
1969 in literature
The year 1969 in literature involved some significant events and new books.-Events:* The first Booker Prize is awarded.* "Penelope Ashe", author of the bestselling novel Naked Came the Stranger, is found to be several people who each took a turn writing a chapter of what they described as "junk" in...
political autobiography
Autobiography
An autobiography is a book about the life of a person, written by that person.-Origin of the term:...
by the American
United States
The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...
political activist Jamil Abdullah Al-Amin (aka H. Rap Brown
H. Rap Brown
Jamil Abdullah Al-Amin , also known as H. Rap Brown, was chairman of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee in the 1960s, and during a short lived alliance between SNCC , later the Justice Minister of the Black Panther Party...
). The book was first released in the United States
United States
The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...
in 1969 and then in the United Kingdom in 1970. Brown describes his experiences as a young black civil rights
Civil rights
Civil and political rights are a class of rights that protect individuals' freedom from unwarranted infringement by governments and private organizations, and ensure one's ability to participate in the civil and political life of the state without discrimination or repression.Civil rights include...
activist and how they shaped his opinions of white America. He expresses his opinions on what he believes black Americans need to do to break free from white oppression.
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