John Brown still lives! : America's long reckoning with violence, equality, & change / / R. Blakeslee Gilpin.

• Author: ProQuest (Firm); Gilpin, R. Blakeslee.
• TeilnehmendeR: ProQuest (Firm)
• Year of Publication: 2011
• Language: English
• Physical Description: xiii, 279 p. :; ill.

Table of Contents

• Introduction : cause and consequence : John Brown in nineteenth-century America
• Some definite plan : the early life of John Brown
• The final arbiter : Bleeding Kansas and the creation of the old hero
• Not buried but planted : cultivating the legend of John Brown
• A saint in suspense : competing visions of John Brown
• Discrimination and destiny : John Brown and the NAACP
• The soul rests : Stephen Vincent Benet and the silencing of John Brown's body
• The fugitive imagination : a John Brown for the old South
• Revising Kansas : John Steuart Curry and the fanaticism of John Brown
• Together under arms : Jacob Lawrence paints Black history
• Epilogue. Climax and harbinger : a life as a common cause.