Still I Rise: A Graphic History of African Americans is a pictorial and historical-cultural narrative chronicling the struggles and triumphs of African Americans. The book is set to be published by Sterling Publishing in early February 2009. Co-authored by husband and wife team, Roland Laird and Taneshia Nash Laird, with a foreword by Charles Johnson, it is an update of the original text, Still I Rise: A Cartoon History of African Americans.

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  • Still I Rise: A Graphic History of African Americans is a pictorial and historical-cultural narrative chronicling the struggles and triumphs of African Americans. The book is set to be published by Sterling Publishing in early February 2009. Co-authored by husband and wife team, Roland Laird and Taneshia Nash Laird, with a foreword by Charles Johnson, it is an update of the original text, Still I Rise: A Cartoon History of African Americans. Published in 1997, A Cartoon History depicts through the use of cartoon illustrations the historical journey of African Americans, from pre-colonial America to the present. According to Charles Johnson, a National Book Award winner, Still I Rise is the first history of African Americans that is primarily of a cartoon or graphic nature The book has been compared to cartoonist styles of Art Spiegelman and Larry Gonick applied to African American history. Johnson said of the first edition, "Permeating this encyclopedic research is ... recognition of the beauty, resilience, and spiritual endurance of black Americans. " The previous edition of A Graphic History is Still I Rise: A Cartoon History of African Americans. A Cartoon History spans the history of African peoples in America between the time periods of 1618, when the first skilled African craftspeople and farmers were brought over as indentured servants, to the Million Man March of 1995. The book treats at some length topics such as militancy, separatism and integration. Throughout the story, the narrative highlights the efforts of diverse African American leaders including Harriet Tubman, Fredrick Douglass and Martin Luther King. As an historical narrative, Still I Rise shows how Black Americans have persevered despite political, social and economic opposition.
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  • September 2009
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  • Still I Rise: A Graphic History of African Americans is a pictorial and historical-cultural narrative chronicling the struggles and triumphs of African Americans. The book is set to be published by Sterling Publishing in early February 2009. Co-authored by husband and wife team, Roland Laird and Taneshia Nash Laird, with a foreword by Charles Johnson, it is an update of the original text, Still I Rise: A Cartoon History of African Americans.
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