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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Page 167
... Negro soldiers popular was that they and others helped with their songs and entertainment to relieve the tedium of army life . As was said the Confederates from the start had used Negro entertainers . DEEDS OF THE NEGRO SOLDIER So many ...
... Negro soldiers popular was that they and others helped with their songs and entertainment to relieve the tedium of army life . As was said the Confederates from the start had used Negro entertainers . DEEDS OF THE NEGRO SOLDIER So many ...
Page 174
... Negro regiments if this is their style of fight- ing . " ... Secretary of War Stanton said of the battle of Petersburg , " The hardest fighting was done by the black troops . The forts they stormed were the worst of all . . . . General ...
... Negro regiments if this is their style of fight- ing . " ... Secretary of War Stanton said of the battle of Petersburg , " The hardest fighting was done by the black troops . The forts they stormed were the worst of all . . . . General ...
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... Negro soldier lacked one important thing , however ; initiative . That was the fault of slavery . Colonel Powell , white commander of Negro troops , said , " Accustomed to disci- pline ( he ) had never been taught to take the initiative ...
... Negro soldier lacked one important thing , however ; initiative . That was the fault of slavery . Colonel Powell , white commander of Negro troops , said , " Accustomed to disci- pline ( he ) had never been taught to take the initiative ...
Contents
Part Page | 1 |
THE AFRICAN BACKGROUND | 7 |
THE AFRICANAMERICAN IN THE MAKING OF THE UNITED STATES | 97 |
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