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Still I Rise: A Graphic History of African Americans
''Still I Rise: A Graphic History of African Americans'' is a pictorial and historical-cultural narrative chronicling the struggles and triumphs of African Americans. The book is set to be published by Sterling Publishing in early February 2009.〔US History Catalog. "Still I Rise: A Graphic History of African Americans." 2009. Sterling Publishing .〕 Co-authored by husband and wife team, Roland Laird and Taneshia Nash Laird, with a foreword by Charles R. Johnson, it is an update of the original text, ''Still I Rise: A Cartoon History of African Americans''. Published in 1997, ''A Cartoon History'' depicts through the use of cartoon illustrations the historical journey of African Americans, from pre-colonial America to the present.
According to Charles Johnson, a National Book Award winner, ''Still I Rise'' is the first history of African Americans that is primarily of a cartoon or graphic nature〔("Still I Rise Book Review" ), ''Newsblaze'', Jan. 2009.〕 The book has been compared to cartoonist styles of Art Spiegelman and Larry Gonick applied to African American history. Johnson said of the first edition, "Permeating this encyclopedic research is ... recognition of the beauty, resilience, and spiritual endurance of black Americans." 〔("Still I Rise: A Cartoon History of AAs" ), AALBC.Com (retrieved 30 July 2009)〕
The previous edition of ''A Graphic History'' is ''Still I Rise: A Cartoon History of African Americans''. ''A Cartoon History'' spans the history of African peoples in America between the time periods of 1618, when the first skilled African craftspeople and farmers were brought over as indentured servants, to the Million Man March of 1995. The book treats at some length topics such as militancy, separatism and integration. Throughout the story, the narrative highlights the efforts of diverse African American leaders including Harriet Tubman, Fredrick Douglass and Martin Luther King. As an historical narrative, ''Still I Rise'' shows how Black Americans have persevered despite political, social and economic opposition.
==Summary==
The book's plot centers around the fact that many African indentured servants, once in America, proved to be highly skilled - even more so than many of their European counterparts. The book tells the tale of how these servants went on to buy out their indenture contracts, creating a white backlash which resulted in lengthening those contracts. As tensions between Africans and Europeans grew, this ultimately led in 1676 to the Bacon's Rebellion, which caused slavery to become official law in all the colonies. The book then takes the reader from the end of American slavery, through Reconstruction and the Civil Rights Movement to the nomination of President Barack Obama. The central theme that is woven throughout the narrative is the resilience, creativity and fortitude of African Americans through virtually insurmountable obstacles.
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