Lerone Bennett (1928–2018)
Autor de Before the Mayflower: A History of Black America
Sobre El Autor
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 mostrar más 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) mostrar menos
Créditos de la imagen: John H. White. Archival Research Catalog of the National Archives and Records Administration.
Obras de Lerone Bennett
The Shaping of Black America: The Struggles and Triumphs of African-Americans, 1619-1990s (1975) 85 copias
Unity in the Black community 2 copias
Pioneers in Protest 1 copia
Obras relacionadas
The Lincoln Anthology: Great Writers on His Life and Legacy from 1860 to Now (2008) — Contribuidor — 154 copias
Etiquetado
Conocimiento común
- Fecha de nacimiento
- 1928-10-17
- Fecha de fallecimiento
- 2018-02-13
- Género
- male
- Nacionalidad
- USA
- Lugar de nacimiento
- Clarksdale, Mississippi, USA
- Lugar de fallecimiento
- Chicago, Illinois, USA
- Causa de fallecimiento
- advanced vascular dementia
- Lugares de residencia
- Jackson, Mississippi, USA
- Educación
- Morehouse College (BA|1949)
- Ocupaciones
- editor
Historian - Organizaciones
- Ebony
Jet
Atlanta Daily World
Mississippi Enterprise (Jackson, MS, as a youth) - Premios y honores
- American Academy of Arts and Letters Academy Award (Literature, 1978)
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Estadísticas
- Obras
- 16
- También por
- 7
- Miembros
- 1,293
- Popularidad
- #19,850
- Valoración
- 4.2
- Reseñas
- 6
- ISBNs
- 45
- Idiomas
- 2
- Favorito
- 2