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"Powerful..
'.nflinching, almost painfully honest account."
—San Francisco Chronicle
"The best existing account of the inner workings of the
Black Panther Part}’."
-—Eric Foner
Praise of Black Women: Ancient African Queens, by Simone Schwarz-Bart
with Andre Schwarz-Bart. Published by Modus Vivendi Publications, The University
of Wisconsin Press. Available for sale on the internet at
www.inpraiseofblackwomen.com, by phone at 773-568-1550, or from many book
stores. Hardcover, 456 pages, 600 color illustrations. $60.00.
"What a beautiful book!! And three more like this to come!’
We are excited]"
— QBR The Black Book Review
"This enchanting work transports the reader back in time and
gives a voice to the little-known black women of the past. "
—Publishers Weekly
"Visually stunning.,.Every page contains high-quality- color
reproductions, including many full- and double-page spreads,
of rarely seen art works and images of
African history’ and culture. ”
—Library Journal
About the book:
From New York to New Orleans, from Washington, D.C. to Oakland, California,
women are celebrating the publication of a very special new book, a project that has
involved black women in Africa, Europe, the Caribbean, and the United States from
its very beginnings.
In Washington, Congresswoman Sheila Jackson Lee (D-Texas) issued a special
recognition. In New York City, the president of the New York Coalition of lOO Black
Women. Dr. Suzan Johnson Cook, gave a' rousing speech of praise. In New Orleans,
Michele Moriel, wife of the city’s mayor, is organizing a celebration. All of the talk is
about In Praise of Black Women: Ancient African Queens, the first volume in a four-
book series on black women throughout the world, from ancient times to the present.
(The remaining three volumes will celebrate heroines of the slavery era in the Amer
icas, modern African women, and modern women of the African Diaspora.)
The book is attracting attention because of its entrancing stories about African
heroines that most Americans have never heard of or read about, as well as its lavish
illustration with color paintings, prints, and photographs. It weaves together oral tradi
tion, folk legends and stories, songs and poem, historical accounts, and travelers' talcs
from Egypt to southern Africa, from prehistory to the nineteenth century.
These women rulers, warriors, and heroines include Amanirenas, the queen of Kush
who baltie Roman armies and defeated them at Aswan; Daurama, mother of the seven
Hausa kingdoms; Amina Kulibali. founder of the Gabu dynasty in Senegal'; Ana dc
Sousa N/inga. who resisted the Portuguese conquest of Angola: Beatrice Kimpa Vila,
a Kongo prophet burned at the .stake by Christian missionaries; Nanda. mother of the
famous warrior-king Shaku Zulu; and many others.
And. the publication of the book is a story of black women working together toe
make their history known.
About the authors:
Simone Schwarz-Bart, the celebrated Guadeloupean noveli.st, originally published
the books in French-language editions. They attracted the attention of a young black
woman from Martinique, Sandra Monthieux Pelage, who dreamed of one day brining
these books to American audiences. Her efforts led her to Rose-Myriam Rejouis, who
is an accomplished translator of works in French into English. Schwarz-Bart is the au
thor of six novels and a play which have been translated and published in many lan
guages. She spent three years with her husband, award-winning writer Andre
Schwarz-Bart, researching historical women and illustrations throughout the world.
The Schwarz-Barts spent time in the United States at the Schomburg Center for Re
search in Black Culture in Harlem during the mid']980s, doing research for this series
of books.
**This Side of Glory: The Autobiography of David Hilliard and the story of
the Black Panther Party. Published May 2001 by Lawrence Hill Books, distributed
by Independent Publishers Group, 814 N. Franklin St., Chicago, III. 60610, Toll-free
number for orders only: I-800-888-4741. Paperback, 450 pages, 5‘/2 x 8‘/i, 36
black and white photographs. $18.'95.
"A vivid, insigh fill record of the Black Panther Party’s heyday,
long overdue."
—Washington Post
"A extraordinary biography...Hilliard writes as it his survival
depends on telling painful truths."
—The Nation
About the book:
This Side of Glory’ gives a rare glimpse of the human suffering that provided such
eager recruits for groups like the Black Panthers, and also shows the gloiy of it, not
just for David Hilliard, but for the millions of people who fought for civil rights and
found hope in a revolutionary movement.
The Black Panthers’ breakfast programs'for school children, as well as their free
medical clinics have been legitimized by the federal government.
This Side of Glory’ is the harrowing story of David Hilliard, ex-chief of staff of the
Black Panther Party. Written with the participation of other Party members, this book
provides firsthand accounts of Huey Newton’s infamou.s shootout with the police, tha^
murder of Fred Hampton, how Panther money was raised and spent, the sexual morel
of the Party, and how illegal activities erupted and were controlled. ^
Hilliard tells his version of a story he believes was often twisted, misrepresented or
not reported in mainstream media. Born in the forties, the twelfth child in a poor Ala
bama family. Hilliard quickly learned the limits of blacks’ participation in American
life. Witnessing the unfulfilled promises of the civil rights movement, Hilliard was
propelled into the rebelliousness of the sixties and the Black Panther Parly.
This Side of Glory’ reveals the Panthers’ struggle for adequate housing, employment
and education for black people in the face of police brutality and government infiltra
tions and disinformation. It also tells how the Party began to dissolve in the early
seventies as police raids, gun battles, IRS investigations, trials, and prison terms
decimated their ranks.
About the author:
David Hilliard is now a Union Representative in Berkeley, California.
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