{"product_id":"100-amazing-facts-about-the-negro-hardcover","title":"100 Amazing Facts about the Negro - Hardcover","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eHenry Louis Gates\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe first edition of Joel Augustus Rogers's now legendary \u003ci\u003e100 Amazing Facts About the Negro with Complete Proof, \u003c\/i\u003epublished in 1934, 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. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWith  lan 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. Among the one hundred questions: Who were Africa's first ambassadors to Europe? Who was the first black president in North America? Did Lincoln really free the slaves? Who was history's wealthiest person? What percentage of white Americans have recent African ancestry? Why did free black people living in the South before the end of the Civil War stay there? Who was the first black head of state in modern Western history? Where was the first Underground Railroad? Who was the first black American woman to be a self-made millionaire? Which black man made many of our favorite household products better? \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eHere is a surprising, inspiring, sometimes boldly mischievous--all the while highly instructive and entertaining--compendium of historical curiosities intended to illuminate the sheer complexity and diversity of being \"Negro\" in the world.\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e(With full-color illustrations throughout.)\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eHENRY LOUIS GATES, JR.\u003c\/b\u003e, is the Alphonse Fletcher University Professor and director of the Hutchins Center for African and African American Research at Harvard University. An award-winning filmmaker, literary scholar, journalist, cultural critic, and institution builder, Professor Gates has authored or coauthored twenty-one books and created seventeen documentary films, including \u003ci\u003eWonders of the African World, African American Lives, Faces of America, Black in Latin America, Black American Since MLK: And Still I Rise, \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eFinding Your Roots, \u003c\/i\u003ewhose fourth season in currently in production with PBS. His six-part PBS documentary, \u003ci\u003eThe African Americans: Many Rivers to Cross--\u003c\/i\u003ewhich he wrote, executive produced, and hosted--earned an Emmy Award for Outstanding Historical Program-Long Form, as well as a Peabody Award, and Alfred I. DuPont-Columbia University Award, and an NAACP Image Award. Gate's latest film is the six-hour PBS documentary \u003ci\u003eAfrica's Great Civilizations.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 496\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1.4 x 9.2 x 6.5 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eIllustrated:\u003c\/strong\u003e Yes\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e October 24, 2017\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51754200138016,"sku":"9780307908711","price":40.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/337f9c37ca90ddad64b325cb04342511.webp?v=1780035579","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/100-amazing-facts-about-the-negro-hardcover","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}