100 Amazing Facts About the Negro

100 Amazing Facts About the Negro

The first edition of Joel Augustus Rogersâ€™s now legendary 100 Amazing Facts About the Negro with Complete Proof, published in 1934, was billed as â€œA Negro â€˜Believe It or Not.â€™â€ Rogersâ€™s little book was priceless because he was delivering enlightenment and pride, steeped in historical research, to a people too long starved on the lie that they were worth nothing. For African Americans of the Jim Crow era, Rogersâ€™s was their first black history teacher. But Rogers was not always shy about embellishing the â€œfactsâ€ and minimizing ambiguity; neither was he above shock journalism now and then.
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With Ã©lan and eruditionâ€”and with winning enthusiasmâ€”Henry Louis Gates, Jr. gives us a corrective yet loving homage to Rogerâ€™s work. Relying on the latest scholarship, Gates leads us on a romp through African, diasporic, and African-American history in question-and-answer format. Among the one hundred questions: Who were Africaâ€™s first ambassadors to Europe? Who was the first black president in North America? Did Lincoln really free the slaves? Who was historyâ€™s wealthiest person? What percentage of white Americans have recent African ancestry? Why did free black people living in the South before the end of the Civil War stay there? Who was the first black head of state in modern Western history? Where was the first Underground Railroad? Who was the first black American woman to be a self-made millionaire? Which black man made many of our favorite household products better?
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Here is a surprising, inspiring, sometimes boldly mischievousâ€”all the while highly instructive and entertainingâ€”compendium of historical curiosities intended to illuminate the sheer complexity and diversity of being â€œNegroâ€ in the world.

(With full-color illustrations throughout.)
Country USA
Brand Pantheon
Manufacturer Pantheon
Binding Hardcover
ItemPartNumber 21027405
Color Multicolor
ReleaseDate 2017-10-24
UnitCount 1
Format Illustrated
EANs 9780307908711

Country	USA
Brand	Pantheon
Manufacturer	Pantheon
Binding	Hardcover
ItemPartNumber	21027405
Color	Multicolor
ReleaseDate	2017-10-24
UnitCount	1
Format	Illustrated
EANs	9780307908711

100 Amazing Facts About the Negro

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