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Die Nigger Die! 
Author(s) H. Rap Brown Country United States Language English Genre(s) Autobiography Publisher Dial Press Publication date 1969 Media type Print (Hardcover, Paperback) Pages 145 pp (first edition, hardback)[1] ISBN ISBN 9781556524523 (reprint edition, hardback) Die Nigger Die! is a 1969 political autobiography by the American political activist Jamil Abdullah Al-Amin (aka H. Rap Brown). The book was first released in the United States in 1969 and then in the United Kingdom in 1970.
The American Muslim said that the central premise of Brown's story could be encapsulated by this quote from the book;
"I lived near Louisiana State University, and I could see this big fine school with modern buildings and it was for whites. Then there was Southern University, which was about to fall in and that was for the niggers. And when I compared the two, the message that the white man was trying to get across was obvious...Die Nigger Die."[2]
After Brown's conviction for murder in March 2002,[3] the book was reprinted by Lawrence Hill Press with a foreword by Ekwueme Michael Thelwell.
Notes
- ^ Stevens, Shane (15 June 1969). "Die Nigger Die!; By H. Rap Brown". The New York Times. http://select.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=F70716FE385E1A7B93C7A8178DD85F4D8685F9. Retrieved 2009-01-06.
- ^ "Al-Amin, Imam Jamil Abdullah (H. Rap Brown)". The American Muslim. 20 October 2005. http://www.theamericanmuslim.org/tam.php/features/articles/al_amin_jamil_abdullah/. Retrieved 2009-01-06.
- ^ "Ex-Black Panther convicted of murder". CNN. 9 March 2002. http://edition.cnn.com/2002/LAW/03/09/al.amin.verdict/index.html. Retrieved 2009-01-06.
External links
Categories:- 1969 books
- African American autobiographies
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