Allies for Freedom, publishers
Mean to be Free: John Brown's Black Nation Campaign
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| John Brown's plans to liberate enslaved people in the United States told in art and poetry, story and song. Author and photographer: Jean Libby Director of narration Margaret B. Wilkerson |
Produced by the University of California African
American Studies Department and UC Berkeley TV
and Radio Studio. Creative director: Roy Thomas
The script uses primary sources of the actual words of
John Brown, Frederick Douglass, Harriet Tubman, and
Annie Brown with over 400 archival and contemporary
images. A student ensemble reading of Robert C. Hayden
"Runagate Runagate" depicts the Underground Railroad.
cover image art by Malaquias
Montoya and students at the
California College of Arts and
Crafts in Oakland.
Mural no longer extant.
Photo by Jean Libby, 1982
| now available for order on ISBN 978-0-9773638-3-4 |
