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"The Making of an Afro-American"
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Dorothy Sterling |
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The Making of an Afro-American: Martin Robison Delany -
Decades before Marcus Garvey, W.E.B. DuBois, and Malcolm X, Martin Robison Delany (1812-1885)
proclaimed his pride in being black, and demanded not only emancipation
but independence for African Americans. Frederick Douglass said of his and sometimes rival, "I
thank God for making me a man, but Delany thanks Him for making him a Black Man." Grandson of
an African prince, son of a slave, Delany lived a life of singular achievement: the first
African-American explorer to venture into the heart of Africa; the publisher, editor, and writer
of one of the first black newspaper in the U.S.; one of the first three blacks admitted to
Harvard Medical School; the first black to hold field grade rank of U.S. Army major during the
Civil War; as well as prominent careers as an author, doctor, ethnologist, orator, judge,
Freedmen's Bureau official, and spokesman for black nationalism. This assiduously researched
biography brings into vivid focus the life and times of Delany, whose militant uncompromising
voice is as vital today as it was more than a century ago.
Price: $14.95 + $3.00 s/h (MD residents, please add 5% sales tax)
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