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The Afro-American World Alamanac: What Do Your Know about Your Race? with Unusual Historic Facts about Prominent People of African Descent from A to Z

The Afro-American World Alamanac: What Do Your Know about Your Race? with Unusual Historic Facts about Prominent People of African Descent from A to Z

Reverend Brown, Ross D.

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Black American History

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ISBN10: 1580730183
ISBN13: 9781580730181
Publisher: Black Classic Pr Inc
Published: Apr 6 1999
Pages: 112
Weight: 0.40
Height: 0.30 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
The Afro-American World Almanac, first published in 1943, when white publishers exhibited little interest in Black History, is Ross Brown's effort to document Black achievements. More a notebook than an almanac, this work is a wonderful time capsule to the past, stuffed with well-known and little-known tidbits about Blacks. We find information on famous kings and queens of Africa, great people in the Holy Bible, and even information on the recently verified Thomas Jefferson/Sally Hemmings relationship. Often the events captured do not follow a chronological timeline and the documentation is at times sketchy--but they are fun to read anyway. Brown has a way of blending the ancient with the modern. He, after all, makes no pretense about being a historian. Brown is a layman, and he compiled this mass of data for other lay people. He wrote and published this book for the reader on the street, successfully conveying a sense of passion and urgency that are often boiled out of so called scholarly histories.

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