![]() ![]() In the 1920s, Rogers worked as a journalist on the Pittsburgh Courier and the Chicago Enterprise, and he served as the first black foreign correspondent from the United States. ![]() 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. Rogers addresses issues such as the lack of scientific support for the idea of race, the lack of black history being told from a black person’s perspective, and the fact of intermarriage and unions among peoples throughout history.Ī respected historian and gifted lecturer, Rogers was a close personal friend of the Harlem-based intellectual and activist Hubert Harrison. The first edition of Joel Augustus Rogers’s now legendary 100 Amazing Facts About the Negro with Complete Proof, published in 1934, was billed as A Negro ‘Believe It or Not.’. He was one of the greatest popularizers of African history in the twentieth century. ![]() He challenged prevailing ideas about race, demonstrated the connections between civilizations, and traced African achievements. Now with elan and eruditionand winning enthusiasmHenry Louis Gates, Jr., gives us a corrective yet loving homage to Rogers’s work. Rogers, a largely self-educated black journalist and historian. His research spanned the academic fields of history, sociology and anthropology. In 1934, 100 Amazing Facts About the Negro With Complete Proof: A Short Cut to the World History of the Negro was published by Joel A. JOEL AUGUSTUS ROGERS (September 6, 1880–March 26, 1966) was a Jamaican-American author, journalist, and historian who contributed to the history of Africa and the African diaspora, especially the history of African Americans in the United States. ![]()
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