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Johnson, James

 
9781420869781: Some Of History's Missing Pages
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 1420869787 ISBN 13 : 9781420869781
Editeur : AuthorHouse, 2006

Synopsis

Having majored in history at the University of Miami while writing for two campus journals and subsequently working for two weekly newspapers, the author wrote columns and editorials based on his research and knowledge of Black History. Saving his newspaper clippings from his college days and having saved his research and term papers over the years, he decided to write what he had learned about the history of Black people that he wasn't taught in school. As he begin his research, he quickly found out that there was a lot of information that he didn't know, and he thought he was "pretty up to date on history," he decided to write a book of some of the facts that were missing from the pages of our history. He surmised that if he didn't know it, there had to be so many others that didn't know it either, and he felt personally pressured to write a book on what he had learned, and after consultation with both friends and family, he set out amassing his research material and newspaper stories, columns and other historical data.The title was taken from a column he wrote for The Florida Courier, an affiliate of the nationally acclaimed John Sengstacke's Chicago Defender, while he was a student at The University of Miami, in which his research had discovered some Black facts that had been previously left out the mainstream history books. This book doesn't list greater known facts, but those people, places and things that have little or no mention in various other history books, so as not to overdo certain occurrences. Unless you have been vacationing on Mars for the last half-century, you know who Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. is and that he begin his non-violent civil rights career at Montgomery bus boycott in 1956, so that fact is not mentioned in this book. Some of History's Missing Pages has those historical facts, people, places and things that have been overlooked, not mentioned, forgotten and/or misplaced historically.

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Biographie de l'auteur

James Monroe Johnson, author of two books of poems: Just To Spend A Little Time With You: A Lifetime of Writing Poetry, published in 2003 and From My Heart To Yours, published in 2004, and a Christian anthology: The Banner Mission, By Larry Mays, also published in 2004, has now put all of his historical writings, research and term papers from college and his years of writing experiences for newspapers and magazines, both college and professionally into a book of history.Johnson, a Mississippi native, was born in Phillip, Tallahatchie County, in February, 1943. Being the twelfth child and sixth boy of a large cotton-farming family, he was on the tail-end of a cotton-picking era that many Black families found themselves during the 1940''s. During the summer of his first year, his family moved back to the hills of Mississippi from whence they had come. He attended elementary school at an old two-room schoolhouse that belonged to the Methodist Church of Dumas Chapel at Bellefontaine in Webster County. In 1957, he began riding the bus to Eupora and finished high school at Webster County Training High in 1961. Enrolling in college at Okolona, a junior college, on a scholastic scholarship, he completed his two years and earned an Associate of Arts Degree in General Education in June 1963.Being promised a scholarship to St. Augustine''s College in Raleigh, North Carolina, Johnson went to Raleigh by train, but couldn't locate the dean who had promised him the scholarship, so he traveled onto Washington, D.C., where he his nephew Jesse James Mhoon lived. Getting a job to afford a train trip back home, he worked for Friend Rent-A-Car from September to Christmas, then he married his girlfriend from Grenada County and got news from home that his sister Margaret had been killed, so he and his new bride boarded a bus to Mississippi. After his sister's funeral, he and his wife alternated between his mother and her mother (by this time, both his father and his wife's father were dec

Présentation de l'éditeur

Having majored in history at the University of Miami while writing for two campus journals and subsequently working for two weekly newspapers, the author wrote columns and editorials based on his research and knowledge of Black History. Saving his newspaper clippings from his college days and having saved his research and term papers over the years, he decided to write what he had learned about the history of Black people that he wasn't taught in school. As he begin his research, he quickly found out that there was a lot of information that he didn't know, and he thought he was "pretty up to date on history," he decided to write a book of some of the facts that were missing from the pages of our history. He surmised that if he didn't know it, there had to be so many others that didn't know it either, and he felt personally pressured to write a book on what he had learned, and after consultation with both friends and family, he set out amassing his research material and newspaper stories, columns and other historical data.The title was taken from a column he wrote for The Florida Courier, an affiliate of the nationally acclaimed John Sengstacke's Chicago Defender, while he was a student at The University of Miami, in which his research had discovered some Black facts that had been previously left out the mainstream history books. This book doesn't list greater known facts, but those people, places and things that have little or no mention in various other history books, so as not to overdo certain occurrences. Unless you have been vacationing on Mars for the last half-century, you know who Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. is and that he begin his non-violent civil rights career at Montgomery bus boycott in 1956, so that fact is not mentioned in this book. Some of History's Missing Pages has those historical facts, people, places and things that have been overlooked, not mentioned, forgotten and/or misplaced historically.

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Éditeur
AuthorHouse
Date d'édition
2006
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
1420869787
ISBN 13 
9781420869781
Reliure
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Nombre de pages
332
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