September 6, 1883 - Joel Augustus Rogers, historian, author and journalist, was born in Negril, Jamaica. Rogers was largely self-taught. He emigrated to the United States in 1906 and settled in Harlem, New York. He worked as a journalist for several African American publications, including the Pittsburgh Courier, the New York Amsterdam News, Crisis magazine, and the Negro World. He was the only Black United States war correspondent during World War II. Rogers was a prolific author who self-published most of his works. His first book, “From Superman to Man”, was published in 1917 and attacked the notion of African inferiority. Other works include “100 Amazing Facts About the Negro with Complete Proof” (1934), 3 volumes of “Sex and Race” published between 1941 and 1944, and 2 volumes of “World’s Great Men of Color” published between 1946 and 1947. Central themes of most of his works were that the color of skin did not determine intellectual genius and Africans had contributed more to the world than was previously acknowledged. As a result of extensive research in Europe, Rogers was multilingual, speaking German, Italian, French, and Spanish. Rogers died March 26, 1966.
Larry Delano Coleman One of our greatest historians, anthropologists, bibliophiles, philologists and global explorers in search of black history, ever, the most honorable and esteemed, Joel Augustus Rogers, from Negril, Jamaica, his birthplace and from the entire world! My transcendent hero!
Monday, September 8, 2014
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September 6, 1883 - Joel Augustus Rogers, historian, author and journalist, was born in Negril, Jamaica. Rogers was largely self-taught. He emigrated to the United States in 1906 and settled in Harlem, New York. He worked as a journalist for several African American publications, including the Pittsburgh Courier, the New York Amsterdam News, Crisis magazine, and the Negro World. He was the only Black United States war correspondent during World War II. Rogers was a prolific author who self-published most of his works. His first book, “From Superman to Man”, was published in 1917 and attacked the notion of African inferiority. Other works include “100 Amazing Facts About the Negro with Complete Proof” (1934), 3 volumes of “Sex and Race” published between 1941 and 1944, and 2 volumes of “World’s Great Men of Color” published between 1946 and 1947. Central themes of most of his works were that the color of skin did not determine intellectual genius and Africans had contributed more to the world than was previously acknowledged. As a result of extensive research in Europe, Rogers was multilingual, speaking German, Italian, French, and Spanish. Rogers died March 26, 1966.
Larry Delano Coleman One of our greatest historians, anthropologists, bibliophiles, philologists and global explorers in search of black history, ever, the most honorable and esteemed, Joel Augustus Rogers, from Negril, Jamaica, his birthplace and from the entire world! My transcendent hero!
