Lerone Bennett

Before the Mayflower (eBook, ePUB)

A History of the Negro in America 1619-1962

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This is a history of the American Negro, whose ancestors arrived at Jamestown a year before the arrival of the "Mayflower."The book begins in Africa with the great empires of the Nile Valley and the western Sudan and ends with the Second Reconstruction, which Martin Luther King Jr. and the Sit-in Generation are fashioning in the North and South.

Written in a dramatic, readable style, Before The Mayflower throws a great deal of light on today's headlines. As such, it will be a valuable addition to the library of every discerning American.Grounded on the work of scholars and specialists, the book is designed for the non-specialist.

Based on the trials and triumphs of Negro Americans, the book tells a story which is relevant to all men.Here are the Negro Minute Men of Lexington and Concord and the black soldiers who stood with Andrew Jackson at New Orleans and Ulysses S. Grant at Petersburg.Here also are the forgotten figures of American history: Phillis Wheatley, the slave poet who became the second American woman to write a book; Nat Turner, the mystic who led a bloody slave revolt; P. B. S. Pinchback, the Negro who sat in the Louisiana governor's mansion and dreamed of the vice presidency.

The author, Lerone Bennett, Jr. was a journalist and later an editor at Ebony magazine. The book grew out of a series of articles originally published in Ebony magazine. He tells the story with the energy and drama you would expect from a magazine writer.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Ebooks for Students, Ltd.
• Seitenzahl: 404
• Erscheinungstermin: 4. April 2022
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781088031049
• Artikelnr.: 67545338

Autorenporträt

Lerone Bennett Jr. (October 17, 1928 - February 14, 2018) was an African-American scholar, author and social historian who analyzed race relations in the United States. His works included Before the Mayflower (1962) and Forced into Glory (2000), a book about U.S. President Abraham Lincoln.Born and raised in Mississippi, Bennett graduated from Morehouse College. He served in the Korean War and began a career in journalism at the Atlanta Daily World before being recruited by Johnson Publishing Company to work for JET magazine. Later, Bennett was the long-time executive editor of Ebony magazine. He was associated with the publication for more than 50 years.