I Dream a World: Portraits of Black Women Who Changed America

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First published in 1989, I Dream a World, a collection of 75 portraits, has become a landmark in publishing history. Now the 10th anniversary of this book is being celebrated with this completely revised and updated edition that charts the achievements of a remarkable group of African-American women and their continued impact on the world.

Many changes have occurred since Brian Lanker set out to capture the faces of both the prominent and unsung women who've made a difference. Sixteen of the original 76 women are no longer among us, including Septima Clark, Barbara Jordan, Clara McBride (Mother) Hale, and Betty Shabazz. But, as this new edition reveals, all of them have left behind an ...

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Overview

First published in 1989, I Dream a World, a collection of 75 portraits, has become a landmark in publishing history. Now the 10th anniversary of this book is being celebrated with this completely revised and updated edition that charts the achievements of a remarkable group of African-American women and their continued impact on the world.

Many changes have occurred since Brian Lanker set out to capture the faces of both the prominent and unsung women who've made a difference. Sixteen of the original 76 women are no longer among us, including Septima Clark, Barbara Jordan, Clara McBride (Mother) Hale, and Betty Shabazz. But, as this new edition reveals, all of them have left behind an enduring legacy for future generations.

Most importantly, in revising and updating I Dream a World, we celebrate not only the event of its publication, but the continued achievements of an extraordinary group of women who remain vitally alive as role models for the next century.

A celebration of great African-American women, I Dream a World presents compelling portraits of 75 women who have changed our nation and our times. This handsome volume will be cherished as a tribute to some of the most inspiring individuals in the ranks of black history and the women's movement.

Editorial Reviews

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Photographer Brian Lanker's I Dream a World: Portraits of Black Women Who Changed America is a classic collection of photographs and first-person remembrances that celebrates the invaluable contributions of African-American women to the arts, literature, politics, education, athletics, and virtually every other aspect of society.
Publishers Weekly
This companion volume to an exhibit at the Corcoran Gallery in Washington, D.C., documents the aspirations and achievements of 75 black women--from ``unsung heroine'' Priscilla L. Williams (``I had fourteen children. Seven of them was my sister's'' sic) to former Congresswoman Shirley Chisholm--in the arts, politics, business, academia, athletics and other fields. Photographs by Pulitzer Prize-winner Lanker are often striking, quietly revealing pride of character, whether borne with predatorial glamour (Leontyne Price) or guileless pleasure (Gwendolyn Brooks). His verbal portraits, spoken in the words of his subjects, are largely a disappointment, however--brief, surprisingly full of platitudes and lacking in personal signature, they tell a dramatic story of struggle and success in a flatly generic voice. But notable exceptions, such as law professor Eleanor Holmes Norton, comment on their lives with uncompromising intelligence (``Black people get their moral authority in this country not simply because they have suffered, but because they understand the suffering of other people''). (Apr.)
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From The Critics
A double-paged format of photograph, brief biographical information, and first-person accounts of women from all walks of life. The 75 photographs (and interviews) by Lanker were exhibited at the Corcoran Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C. The book can function as art, history, literature, or social commentary. Though Barbara Jordon, Alice Walker, and Priscilla Williams inspired this white man's project, many other women provide the names he needed to produce the final 75. Amazingly beautiful and moving (to laughter or to tears), this book cannot be treated adequately on paper; go quickly and purchase copies for your library and yourself.-- Rebecca Sturm Kelm, Northern Kentucky Univ. Lib., Highland Heights

Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9781556709746
  • Publisher: Abrams, Harry N., Inc.
  • Publication date: 9/10/1999
  • Edition number: 2
  • Pages: 172

Table of Contents

Editor's Note 6
They Came to Stay 8
Preface 10
Portraits 19
Rosa Parks 20
Janet Collins 22
Eva Jessye 24
Bertha Knor Gilkey 26
Alice Walker 28
Cicely Tyson 30
Katherine Dunham 32
Barbara Jordan 34
Toni Morrison 36
Althea T. L. Simmons 38
Maxine Waters 40
Johnnetta Betsch Cole 42
Norma Merrick Sklarek 44
Gwendolyn Brooks 46
Leontyne Price 48
Althea Gibson 50
Ernestine Anderson 52
Unita Blackwell 54
Jewel Plummer Cobb 56
Clara McBride Hale 58
Ellen Stewart 60
Beah Richards 62
Carrie Saxon Perry 64
Charlayne Hunter-Gault 66
Constance Baker Motley 68
Oprah Winfrey 70
Sonia Sanchez 72
Georgia Montgomery Davis Powers 74
Daisy Bates 76
Marva Nettles Collins 78
Lena Horne 80
Willie Mae Ford Smith 82
Coretta Scott King 84
Jewell Jackson McCabe 86
Mary Frances Berry 88
Ruby Middleton Forsythe 90
Jean Blackwell Hutson 92
Anna Arnold Hedgeman 94
Johnnie Tillmon 96
Myrlie Evers 98
Faye Wattleton 100
Angela Yvonne Davis 102
Betty Shabazz 104
Queen Mother Audley Moore 106
Harriet Elizabeth Byrd 108
Shirley Chisholm 110
Wyomia Tyus 112
Ruby Dee 114
Leontine T. C. Kelly 116
Margaret Walker Alexander 118
Rachel Robinson 120
Gloria Dean Randle Scott 122
Marian Wright Edelman 124
Elizabeth Catlett 126
Jackie Torrence 128
Autherine Lucy 130
Alexa Canady 132
Yvonne Brathwaite Burke 134
Dorothy Irene Height 136
Sarah Vaughan 138
Josephine Riley Matthews 140
Niara Sudarkasa 142
Wilma Rudolph 144
Odetta 146
Cora Lee Johnson 148
Eleanor Holmes Norton 150
Ophelia DeVore-Mitchell 152
Sherian Grace Cadoria 154
Priscilla L. Williams 156
Leah Chase 158
Elizabeth Cotten 160
Marian Anderson 162
Winson and Dovie Hudson 164
Maya Angelou 166
Septima Poinsette Clark 168
Acknowledgments 170
Index 171
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    The best writer....

    I'm a student at crawford high school and I enjoy read your book Ms.Angelou. Thank you for writing a wise book.

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