Dr. John Henrik Clarke
Dr. John Henrik Clarke (born John Henry Clark, January 1, 1915 – July 12, 1998), was a Pan-Africanist writer, historian, professor, and a pioneer in the creation of Africana studies and professional institutions in academia starting in the late 1960s.
He was born John Henry Clark in Union Springs, Alabama, the youngest child of sharecroppers John (Doctor) and Willie Ella (Mays) Clark. With the hopes of earning enough money to buy land rather than sharecrop, his family moved to Columbus, Georgia. Counter to his mother's wishes for him to become a farmer, Clarke left Georgia in 1933 by freight train and went to Harlem, New York as part of the Great Migration of rural blacks out of the South to northern cities. There he pursued scholarship and activism. He renamed himself as John Henrik (after rebel Norwegian playwright Henrik Ibsen) and added an "e" to his surname, spelling it as "Clarke." On the Shoulders of Giants Wikipedia |
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Christianity Before Jesus
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Exactly Who or What is a Jew
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Malcolm X
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The African in the Making of America
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The Coming of the European
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The Decline of the Civil Rights Movement
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Understanding the Black Holocaust
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You Have No Friends
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Fake Black Leadership
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