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SUMMARY:Still Rising: Janet Cheatham Bell
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DESCRIPTION:Janet Cheatham Bell has been engaged in research\, teaching
 \, and writing to help correct distortions about Americans of African desc
 ent since 1968. In 1984 she left her position as a textbook editor to b
 ecome a consultant to the book publishing industry and to publish her own 
 books. .\nhttps://indianapolis.libnet.info/event/8243853
X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:<p>Cheatham's first two books\,&nbsp\;<em>Fam
 ous Black Quotations and Some Not So Famous</em>&nbsp\;and&nbsp\;<em>Famou
 s Black Quotations on Women\, Love and Other Topics</em>&nbsp\;were self-p
 ublished&nbsp\;in 1986 and 1992. In 1994 she licensed the publishing right
 s to Warner Books\, whose&nbsp\;Famous <em>Black Quotations</em>&nbsp\;was
  published in 1995. Within the next seven years Bell had nine books of quo
 tations on the market.&nbsp\;In 2013\,&nbsp\;she was cited by Henry Louis 
 Gates Jr. on national television as &ldquo\;a pioneer in doing books of bl
 ack quotations.&rdquo\;</p>\n<p>Bell has also written a collection of essa
 ys\, <em>Victory of the Spirit</em>\, published by Warner in 1996. In 2007
 \, her coming-of-age story\, <a href="https://indypl.bibliocommons.com/v2/
 record/S165C519247"><em>The Time and Place That Gave Me Life</em></a>\, wa
 s published by Indiana University Press. Bell revived Sabayt Publications\
 , her self-publishing imprint\, in 2011 for a second essay collection\, <e
 m>Not All Poor People Are Black</em>. A second memoir\, <a href="https://i
 ndypl.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S165C990896"><em>Mixed Marriage</em></a>
  was published with Sabayt Publications in 2018. <a href="https://indypl.b
 ibliocommons.com/v2/record/S165C1467144"><em>Still Rising: Famous Black Qu
 otations for the 21st Century</em></a> (Agate Publishing) is her fifteenth
  book.</p>\n<p><img src="https://static.libnet.info/frontend-images/editor
 /indianapolis/Janet-Cheatham-Bell-800.jpg" width="800" height="847" alt=""
  style="display: block\; margin-left: auto\; margin-right: auto\;" /></p>\
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