Strange fruit. Volume 1: Uncelebrated narratives from Black history

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Strange Fruit is a collection of stories from early African American history that represent the oddity of success in the face of great adversity.;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? 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?