African American History inthe United States of America- From Africa to President Barack Obama

by Tony Rose

Overview

NAMED ONE OF THE TOP 10 BEST AFRICAN AMERICAN BOOKS OF 2009 by Kam Williams - Internationally Renowned Book, Film and Music Critic Considered to be the most important book published in the eleven year history of the company, African American History In the United States of America - An Anthology - From Africa To President Barack Obama - Volume 1 is the most controversial and comprehensive book ever published about the history of Africans and African Americans and Europeans and European Americans in the United States. African American History In the United States of America - An Anthology - From Africa To President Barack Obama - Volume 1 has been compiled in historical order utilizing chapters from some of the greatest African American historians and writers - Lerone Bennett Jr., Before the Mayflower: A History of Black America - The African Past; Barack Obama, Dreams From My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance; Lerone Bennett Jr., Before the Mayflower: A History of Black America - Before the Mayflower and Behind the Cotton Curtain; Jim Haskins, African American Military Heroes; Lerone Bennett Jr., Pioneers In Protest; Brenda Wilkerson, African American Women Writers Eighteenth and Nineteenth Century; Otha Richard Sullivan, African American Inventors; Jim Haskins, African American Entrepreneurs; Clinton Cox, African American Healers and Eleanora E. Tate, African American Musicians. Volume One begins with the story of Ancient Africa, the beginning of Homo Sapiens and African Civilizations, the coming of Europeans, slavery and early African and African American people who lived in the seventeenth, eighteenth and early to mid nineteenth century America and an acknowledgement, introduction and foreword written by the publisher that attempts to explain and solve the centuries old causes and reasons behind racism in America. Compiled, edited and published exclusively for elementary, middle and high school students, libraries, universities, and African American and European American readers. The publishers hope this Anthology can be used as a first step in understanding the history and contributions all Americans have made to The United States of America.

Product Details

BN ID:	2940013428607
Publisher:	Amber Communications Group, Inc.
Publication date:	09/24/2011
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	432
File size:	366 KB

About the Author

Tony Rose is the Pub lisher and CEO of Amber Com mu ni ca tions
Group, Inc. the nation’s larg est Afri can-Amer i can pub lisher of
Self-Help Books and Music Biog ra phies. ACGI’s imprints include:
the award win ning Amber Books Pub lish ing; Colos sus Books, Music
Biog ra phies; Amber/Wiley Books, Self Help and Finan cial Books
Co-Pub lished with John Wiley & Sons Inc. and Joyner/Amber
Books, Co-Pub lish ing with the Tom Joyner Foun da tion.
In 2004 he co-founded and became the Exec u tive Direc tor of The
Afri can Amer i can Pavil ion at BookExpo Amer ica bring ing together
as exhib i tors a com mu nity of thou sands of Afri can Amer i can book
publishers and book publishing indus try profession als, a feat that
had been unprec e dented in the 109-year his tory of BookExpo Amer -
ica. In 2005 Rose founded the Katrina Lit er ary Col lec tive, which has
been respon si ble for col lect ing and donat ing over 90,000 books for
the Hur ri cane Katrina Sur vi vors and he serves as a found ing Direc tor
of the Harlem Book Fair National and The Harlem Book Fair/
Roxbury, Mass.