| BIBLIOGRAPHY |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Summary |
"The first edition of Joel Augustus Rogers’s now legendary 100 Amazing Facts About the Negro with Complete Proof, published in 1957, was billed as A Negro ‘Believe It or Not.’ Rogers’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, Rogers’s was their first black history teacher. But Rogers was not always shy about embellishing the facts and minimizing ambiguity; neither was he above shock journalism now and then. With élan and erudition—and with winning enthusiasm—Henry Louis Gates, Jr. gives us a corrective yet loving homage to Roger’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"-- Provided by publisher. |
| Other edition |
Online version: Gates, Henry Louis, Jr., author. 100 amazing facts about the Negro New York : Pantheon Books, [2017] 9780307908728 |
| Subject |
Black people -- History -- Miscellanea.
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African Americans -- History -- Miscellanea.
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| Add'l Names |
Rogers, J. A. (Joel Augustus), 1880-1966.
100 amazing facts about the Negro.
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| Other title |
One hundred amazing facts about the Negro |
| ISBN |
9780307908711
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0307908712
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