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The first model of Joel Augustus Rogers' now famous 100 Amazing FACTUAL STATEMENTS ABOUT the Negro with Complete Confirmation, published in 1957, was billed as "A Negro 'Believe It or Not'". Rogers' little publication was priceless because he was providing enlightenment and take great pride in, steeped in historical research, to a people too much time starved on the lay that these were worth little or nothing. For African People in the usa of the Jim Crow period, Rogers' was their first dark history teacher. But Rogers was not always timid about embellishing the "facts" and minimizing ambiguity; neither was he above impact journalism occasionally. With élan and erudition - and with earning eagerness - Henry Louis Gates Jr. provides us a corrective yet caring homage to Rogers' work. Counting on the latest scholarship or grant, Gates leads us on the romp through African, diasporic, and BLACK history in question-and-answer format. Among the 100 questions: Who have been Africa's first ambassadors to European countries? Who was simply the first dark president in THE UNITED STATES? Does Lincoln really free the slaves? Who was simply history's wealthiest person? What ratio of white People in the usa have recent African ancestry? Why does free black colored people residing in the South before the end of the Civil Warfare stay there? Who was simply the first black head of talk about in modern European history? Where was the first Underground Railroad? Who was simply the first dark American woman to be a self-made millionaire? Which dark man made quite a few favorite home products better? Here is a surprising, inspiring, sometimes boldly mischievous - even while highly instructive and amusing - compendium of historical curiosities designed to illuminate the absolute complexity and diversity to be "Negro" on the globe.
