My daddy wanted me to be a farmer; feel the smoothness of Alabama clay and become one of the first blacks in my town to own land. But, I was worried about my history being caked with that southern clay, and I subscribed to a different kind of teaching and learning in my bones and in my spirit.
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About John Henrik Clarke
John Henrik Clarke was a 20th-century American african-american historian. John Henrik Clarke was an African-American historian, professor, prominent Afrocentrist, and pioneer of Pan-African and Africana studies and professional institutions in academia starting in the late 1960s. Read more on Wikipedia →
Themes
- History — Lessons from the past and the arc of human civilisation