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Blurb: “A full history of the American Negro, from his origins in the great empires of the Nile Valley and the western Sudan through the Negro revolt of the 1960's.
Mr. Bennett clarifies the rolo of Negro Americans during the Coloniai period, the Revolutionary War, the Slavery era, the Civil War, the years of Reconstruc-tion, and the crucial epoch from Booker
T. Washington to Martin Luther King, Jr.
His account is interspersed with portraits of the great figures like Benjamin Banneker, Frederick Douglass, W.E.B.
DuBois and others, as well as with reports on the exploits and contributions of many men and women whose names generally have been forgotten in the pages of American history. In a special section of
"Landmarks and Milestones," he outlines the significant dates, events, and personalities of American Negro history from 1492 to 1964.