Lerone Bennett (1928–2018)
Autor(a) de Before the Mayflower: A History of Black America
About the Author
Lerone Bennett Jr. was born in Clarksdale, Mississippi on October 17, 1928. By the age of 12, he was writing for the black newspaper The Mississippi Enterprise. He graduated from Morehouse College in 1949 and went to work at the black newspaper Atlanta Daily World. In 1953, he became an associate mostrar mais editor at Jet magazine. He moved to Ebony a year later and became the senior editor there in 1958. He eventually became an executive editor and worked for the magazine into his 80s. He wrote several books including Before the Mayflower, Forced Into Glory: Abraham Lincoln's White Dream, What Manner of Man: A Biography of Martin Luther King Jr., The Shaping of Black America, and Black Power U.S.A.: The Human Side of Reconstruction, 1867-1877. He died from advanced vascular dementia on February 14, 2018 at the age of 89. (Bowker Author Biography) mostrar menos
Image credit: John H. White. Archival Research Catalog of the National Archives and Records Administration.
Obras de Lerone Bennett
The Shaping of Black America: The Struggles and Triumphs of African-Americans, 1619-1990s (1975) 84 cópias
Unity in the Black community 2 cópias
Stokely Carmichael, architect of Black power: SNCC chairman sparks national uproar with call for new orientation 1 exemplar(es)
Pioneers in Protest 1 exemplar(es)
Associated Works
The Lincoln Anthology: Great Writers on His Life and Legacy from 1860 to Now (2008) — Contribuinte — 153 cópias
Shades Of Black: Crime and Mystery Stories by African-American Authors (2004) — Prefácio — 46 cópias
Etiquetado
Conhecimento Comum
- Data de nascimento
- 1928-10-17
- Data de falecimento
- 2018-02-13
- Sexo
- male
- Nacionalidade
- USA
- Local de nascimento
- Clarksdale, Mississippi, USA
- Local de falecimento
- Chicago, Illinois, USA
- Causa da morte
- advanced vascular dementia
- Locais de residência
- Jackson, Mississippi, USA
- Educação
- Morehouse College (BA|1949)
- Ocupação
- editor
Historian - Organizações
- Ebony
Jet
Atlanta Daily World
Mississippi Enterprise (Jackson, MS, as a youth) - Premiações
- American Academy of Arts and Letters Academy Award (Literature, 1978)
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Estatísticas
- Obras
- 16
- Also by
- 7
- Membros
- 1,289
- Popularidade
- #19,897
- Avaliação
- 4.2
- Resenhas
- 6
- ISBNs
- 45
- Idiomas
- 2
- Favorito
- 2