Lerone Bennett (1928–2018)
Autor von Before the Mayflower: A History of Black America
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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 mehr anzeigen 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) weniger anzeigen
Bildnachweis: John H. White. Archival Research Catalog of the National Archives and Records Administration.
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The Shaping of Black America: The Struggles and Triumphs of African-Americans, 1619-1990s (1975) 84 Exemplare
Unity in the Black community 2 Exemplare
Pioneers in Protest 1 Exemplar
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The Lincoln Anthology: Great Writers on His Life and Legacy from 1860 to Now (2008) — Mitwirkender — 153 Exemplare
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- Geburtstag
- 1928-10-17
- Todestag
- 2018-02-13
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- male
- Nationalität
- USA
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- Clarksdale, Mississippi, USA
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- Chicago, Illinois, USA
- Todesursache
- advanced vascular dementia
- Wohnorte
- Jackson, Mississippi, USA
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- Morehouse College (BA|1949)
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- editor
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- Ebony
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Atlanta Daily World
Mississippi Enterprise (Jackson, MS, as a youth) - Preise und Auszeichnungen
- American Academy of Arts and Letters Academy Award (Literature, 1978)
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