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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... tion on the strength and positions of the Con- federate army in Virginia , as well as its morale and finances . Harper's Weekly described Jack- son as " an extremely intelligent man . . . ... who reads and writes and converses in a ...
... tion on the strength and positions of the Con- federate army in Virginia , as well as its morale and finances . Harper's Weekly described Jack- son as " an extremely intelligent man . . . ... who reads and writes and converses in a ...
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... tion from Neptune Thurston , a Negro slave Edward Bannister , winner of Gold Medal for his painting at the Centennial Exhibi- tion , Philadelphia , 1876 . who was employed in a cooper shop of Rhode Island and used to sketch likenesses ...
... tion from Neptune Thurston , a Negro slave Edward Bannister , winner of Gold Medal for his painting at the Centennial Exhibi- tion , Philadelphia , 1876 . who was employed in a cooper shop of Rhode Island and used to sketch likenesses ...
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... tion . That prediction is becoming true . Take up almost any large European and American newspaper and periodical and you'll find men- tion of Africa , its revolts , its struggle for free- dom , and its economic possibilities on the ...
... tion . That prediction is becoming true . Take up almost any large European and American newspaper and periodical and you'll find men- tion of Africa , its revolts , its struggle for free- dom , and its economic possibilities on the ...
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THE AFRICAN BACKGROUND | 7 |
THE AFRICANAMERICAN IN THE MAKING OF THE UNITED STATES | 97 |
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