Lerone Bennett (1928–2018)
Autore di Before the Mayflower: A History of Black America
Sull'Autore
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 mostra altro 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) mostra meno
Fonte dell'immagine: John H. White. Archival Research Catalog of the National Archives and Records Administration.
Opere di Lerone Bennett
The Shaping of Black America: The Struggles and Triumphs of African-Americans, 1619-1990s (1975) 84 copie
Unity in the Black community 2 copie
Pioneers in Protest 1 copia
Opere correlate
The Lincoln Anthology: Great Writers on His Life and Legacy from 1860 to Now (2008) — Collaboratore — 153 copie
Shades Of Black: Crime and Mystery Stories by African-American Authors (2004) — Prefazione — 46 copie
Etichette
Informazioni generali
- Data di nascita
- 1928-10-17
- Data di morte
- 2018-02-13
- Sesso
- male
- Nazionalità
- USA
- Luogo di nascita
- Clarksdale, Mississippi, USA
- Luogo di morte
- Chicago, Illinois, USA
- Causa della morte
- advanced vascular dementia
- Luogo di residenza
- Jackson, Mississippi, USA
- Istruzione
- Morehouse College (BA|1949)
- Attività lavorative
- editor
Historian - Organizzazioni
- Ebony
Jet
Atlanta Daily World
Mississippi Enterprise (Jackson, MS, as a youth) - Premi e riconoscimenti
- American Academy of Arts and Letters Academy Award (Literature, 1978)
Utenti
Recensioni
Premi e riconoscimenti
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Statistiche
- Opere
- 16
- Opere correlate
- 7
- Utenti
- 1,289
- Popolarità
- #19,897
- Voto
- 4.2
- Recensioni
- 6
- ISBN
- 45
- Lingue
- 2
- Preferito da
- 2