Africa's Gift to America: The Afro-American in the Making and Saving of the United StatesOriginally published in 1959 and revised and expanded in 1989, this book asserts that Africans had contributed more to the world than was previously acknowledged. Historian Joel Augustus Rogers devoted a significant amount of his professional life to unearthing facts about people of African ancestry. He intended these findings to be a refutation of contemporary racist beliefs about the inferiority of blacks. Rogers asserted that the color of skin did not determine intellectual genius, and he publicized the great black civilizations that had flourished in Africa during antiquity. According to Rogers, many ancient African civilizations had been primal molders of Western civilization and culture. |
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... ment of the mysterious settle- found that the tree from which ment . This part of Rhodesia is it had been cut had died about dotted with old gold mines , 1,200 or 1,300 years ago . ANCIENT OBJECTS DUG UP IN NIGERIA Figures Indicate ...
... ment of the mysterious settle- found that the tree from which ment . This part of Rhodesia is it had been cut had died about dotted with old gold mines , 1,200 or 1,300 years ago . ANCIENT OBJECTS DUG UP IN NIGERIA Figures Indicate ...
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... ment , a cry for help ; the government stretching forth its hands to Ethiopia , instead of Ethiopia stretching forth her hands to the government . " Such a step , added Seward , " would be con- sidered the last shriek on the retreat ...
... ment , a cry for help ; the government stretching forth its hands to Ethiopia , instead of Ethiopia stretching forth her hands to the government . " Such a step , added Seward , " would be con- sidered the last shriek on the retreat ...
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... ment in Lincoln Park , 1876 , said to the whites present , " First , midst , and last you and yours were the objects of his deepest affection and his most earnest solicitude . You are the chil- dren of Abraham Lincoln .... To you it ...
... ment in Lincoln Park , 1876 , said to the whites present , " First , midst , and last you and yours were the objects of his deepest affection and his most earnest solicitude . You are the chil- dren of Abraham Lincoln .... To you it ...
Contents
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THE AFRICAN BACKGROUND | 7 |
THE AFRICANAMERICAN IN THE MAKING OF THE UNITED STATES | 97 |
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