Afro-American World Almanac: What Do You Know about Your Race?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. |
Contents
AfroAmerican Almanac | 6 |
Prominent People of African Descent from A to Z | 30 |
Kings and Queens of African Descent | 36 |
A Lesson in Black | 45 |
Great Black People in the Holy Bible | 53 |
Things They Dont Want Us To Know | 60 |
Things Our Children Should Know | 66 |
Gentleman Joe Louis | 73 |
Dr Charles R Drew and Blood Banks 1942 | 79 |
Bessie Coleman | 85 |
Steve Landrum | 91 |
Seven Famous Members of Congress | 97 |
Highlights In Life of the Wizard of Tuskegee | 103 |
Vitamins Proteins and Calories | 112 |
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