Strange Fruit, Volume I

Uncelebrated Narratives from Black History

Joel Christian Gill

• Publisher: Chicago Review Press - Fulcrum
• eBook ISBN:
  9781933108957
• Year: 2016

Strange Fruit Volume I is a collection of stories from early African American history that represent the oddity of success in the face of great adversity. Each of the nine illustrated chapters chronicles an uncelebrated African American hero or event. From the adventures of lawman Bass Reeves, to Henry "Box" Brown's daring escape from slavery.

Table of contents

• Front Cover
• Dedication
• Title Page
• Copyright
• Contents
• Why Strange Fruit?
• Foreword: Dr. Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
• Out-of-the-Box Thinking: Henry “Box” Brown
• Harry “Bucky” Lew: Original Baller
• Richard Potter’s Greatest Illusion
• Theophilus Thompson: From Slave to Chess Master
• The Shame
• The Noyes Academy
• Marshall “Major” Taylor: The Black Cyclone
• Two Letters, as Written by Spottswood Rice
• Bass Reeves: Lawman
• Did You Know?
• Bibliography
• About the Author
• Thank You
• Back Cover