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Dec 5, 1925 — Jul 3, 2015· 89 yrs

UNITED STATES AUTHOR · FICTION · AFRICAN AMERICANS

John Alfred Williams

Also known as: John A. Williams

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Prolific Mississippi-born writer academic and journalist, who lived & worked primarily in the u.s. northeast. American writer, academic, and journalist. He is best known for his explorations of black identity in his 1967 best-selling novel The Man Who Cried I Am

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Over seven hundred Black people-farmers, ranchers, merchants, and craftsmen-lived in the Great Solomon Valley, and it seemed to Cara that every single one of them had turned out this day for the parade honoring the Tenth Cavalry.

— from Night song, 1961

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Jacob's Ladder

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Few of the great Russian author Sergius Bulgakov's writings achieve the lyrical heights of Jacob's Ladder. In this book, originally published in 1929, Bulgakov explores the doctrine of angels and their importance for contemporary humanity. He frames his work with meditations on the meaning of love, not as a sentimental indulgence, but as a way of understanding the deep, tender, self-sacrificing, personal knowledge that is both at the heart of a Trinitarian God and in the midst of relationships between human beings and their guardian angels. These discussions on the creation, function, nature, appearances and incorporeality of angels lead also to reflections on the incarnation and human nature, especially the role of the sexes, death, and the Christian hope of resurrection. Jacob's Ladder completes the development of Divine Sophia--on the Wisdom of God in creation--begun in The Burning Bush and The Friend of the Bridegroom, which together constitute Bulgakov's first dogmatic trilogy.

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Night song

1961

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Soldiers remind young schoolteacher Cora Lee Henson of the time Union soldiers lynched her grandfather, so she is far from loving a man in uniform--that is, until she meets the dashing Sergeant Chase Jefferson of the Tenth Colored Cavalry.

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Angry black

1962

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