BOOKISH THINGS: (BHM) BOUND WORKS by SIXTY MEN OF COLOR!
Whenever I or we visit someone's home we are immediately drawn to their bookshelf. When they step out of the room, we look closely at all the books they have read or at one point were interested in reading. Often, we peak at the stacks of books they have displayed around their home. Because, the books we read shape us, the knowledge we glean from others, rather in person or otherwise both form and inform us into who we are today.
In 1843 James Fisher of Nashville wrote:
"I . . . thought it wise to learn to write, in case opportunity should offer to write myself a pass. I copied every scrap of writing I could find, and thus learned to write a tolerable hand before I knew what the words were that I was copying. At last, I found an old man who, for the sake of money to buy whisky, agreed to teach me the writing alphabet, and set up copying. I spent a good deal of time trying to improve myself; secretly, of course. One day, my mistress happened to come into my room, when my materials were about; and she told her father (old Capt. Davis) that I was learning to write. He replied, that if I belonged to him, he would cut my right hand off "
With all of this in mind, plus thoughts of my soon to be sixtieth birthday, not to mention it's been one hundred and sixty winters, since the signing of The Emancipation Proclamation, I have created yet another list to be celebrated for Black History Month and I have titled it: BOUND WORKS by SIXTY MEN OF COLOR! The only criteria for my list is the author needed to be a man of color, no other criteria was necessary, although, a tendency, did surfaced, to lean toward authors, whose works are biblical in some shape form or fashion.
- John Gray
- Carlos Whitaker
- Derwin Gray
- Frederick Ware
- R Dandridge Collins
- E.V. Hill
- James Ford
- Bryan Loritts
- Crawford Loritts
- Jonathan Brooks
- Alvin Sanders
- Roland C Warren
- Claude Alexander Jr.
- Eric C Redmond
- Cain Hope Felder
- Conrad Mbewe
- Cleophus James LaRue
- James H Cone
- John Hunt
- Thabiti M. Anyabwile
- Willie James Jennings
- John Onwuchekwa
- Esau McCauley
- William C Turner Jr.
- Clarence Walker
- Keith Whitfield
- Jarvis Williams
- Myles Munroe
- Luke Brad BoBo
- Dennis R Edwards
- Sam Collier
- Howard Thurman
- Darryl Strawberry
- Jason Brown
- T.C. Stallings
- Lucas Johnson
- F. Willis Johnson
- Eric Motley
- Henry Hampton
- Benjamin Watson
- Albert Tate
- Isaac Adams
- Jonathan Augustine
- Efrem Smith
- Eric Mason
- H.B. Charles Jr.
- Carey Latimore
- Devon Franklin
- Jemar Tisby
- Tim Brown
- John M Perkins
- Joseph Walker III
- Voodie Baucham Jr
- Hakeem Collins
- Van Moody
- Matt Sapaula
- Darius Daniels
- Michael Todd
- Taylor Branch
- Chris McNair
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