He understood that myths and nostalgia are not history. He wrote to express a more accurate view of American and African American history. We at the Unpaid Labor Project share common cause with Mr. The contribution of the first 12 generations of Black people was vital to the birth, growth and survival of the United States of America. The Unpaid Labor Project uses works like these to tell the story of contribution.

These are among the works that scholars have written since the Civil Rights era began about the history of Black Americans. This relationship was long denied but DNA testing in 1998 confirmed it. That was about the 20th-century lives of individuals claiming descent from Jefferson and his slave Sally Hemings. The Lincoln booked showed him to be a White Supremacist at a time when most White Americans were. In 1954 he also wrote the article Thomas Jefferson's Negro Grandchildren. Among his works are the books Before the Mayflower: A History of Black America and Forced into Glory: Abraham Lincoln’s White Dream. He was a top editor at Ebony Magazine for decades. Bennett was a prolific author and journalist.

This is what he called a three-part approach to affecting change. I see those three things connected.” These are the words of Lerone Bennett, Jr., an American icon who died in Chicago on Februat age 89. And then to struggle to destroy a system which is multiplying black victims faster than all the black intellectuals and the black leaders in America can talk about. “Every black person is obligated,” he said, “to try to do what he does as well as any person who ever lived can do it, or any person who ever lives can do it then, to try to save one - just one - person if you can.

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