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    Lerone Bennett Jr. (October 17, 1928 – February 14, 2018) was an African-American scholar, author and social historian who analyzed race relations in...
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  • Lerone is a given name. Notable people with the name include: Lerone Bennett Jr. (1928–2019), African-American scholar, author, and social historian Lerone...
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    Emancipation Proclamation did not free a single slave; historian Lerone Bennett Jr. alleged that the proclamation was a hoax deliberately designed not...
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  • Glory: Abraham Lincoln's White Dream (2000) is a book written by Lerone Bennett Jr., an African-American scholar and historian, who served as the executive...
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  • "Jesus and the Disinherited." In his biography of Martin Luther King Jr., Lerone Bennett Jr. notes that King studied Thurman's Jesus and the Disinherited during...
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  • general Lennie Bennett (1938–2009), English comedian and game show host Leo Bennett (1914–1971), British first-class cricketer Lerone Bennett Jr. (1928–2018)...
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    some African American intellectuals, led by Lerone Bennett Jr., denied that Lincoln deserved that title. Bennett won wide attention when he called Lincoln...
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    Johns Hopkins University Studies in Historical and Political Science Lerone Bennett Jr., The Shaping of Black America, p. 48 Morgan, Kenneth (1985). "The...
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  • of the United States by Herbert Aptheker Before the Mayflower by Lerone Bennett Jr. American Negro Poetry by Arna W. Bontemps Story of the Negro by Arna...
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  • content about the Black Power movement. In 1965, executive editor Lerone Bennett Jr. wrote a recurring column entitled "Black Power", which featured an...
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    by black scholars such as W. E. B. Du Bois, Benjamin Quarles, and Lerone Bennett, Jr. The connection between John Brown's life and many of the slave uprisings...
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    A few months after the publication of Newton's article, historian Lerone Bennett Jr. responded with an essay on the film in Ebony, titled "The Emancipation...
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    Miscegenation and Mulattoes in the United States (New York, 1980) 93 Lerone Bennett Jr., Before the Mayflower: A History of Black America, 6th rev. ed. (New...
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  • Turner: Ten Black Writers Respond (1968) (other contributors are Lerone Bennett Jr., Alvin F. Poussaint, Vincent Harding, John Oliver Killens, John A...
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    Court of Appeals. Johney Brooks – educator, Peace Corps official Lerone Bennett Jr. – scholar, author and social historian. Josie Brown Childs – Civic...
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    (Hattiesburg) Earl W. Bascom (1906–1995), artist and writer (Columbia) Lerone Bennett Jr. (1928–2018), editor of Ebony magazine (Clarksdale) Douglas A. Blackmon...
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    Jewish Day School, and Hales Franciscan High School. Muhammad Ali Lerone Bennett, Jr. Barbara Bowman Marc Canter David "Honeyboy" Edwards Louis Farrakhan...
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  • Washington Post, 9 August 2005: 01. Print. Johnson, John H., and Lerone Bennett, Jr. Succeeding against the Odds. New York: Warner Books, 1989, pp. 32...
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    dominating, old drill sergeant-psychiatrist she must have been! —Lerone Bennett Jr., Ebony The more that she made, the more that she had to share to...
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    840 people from Britain to the colonies in a single year. Historian Lerone Bennett Jr. notes that "Masters given to flogging often did not care whether...
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  • Derrick Bell (1930–2011) Brit Bennett (living), novelist Gwendolyn Bennett (1902–1981) Hal Bennett (1936–2004) Lerone Bennett, Jr. (1928–2018) Bertice Berry...
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  • [sic]. Pseudohistory: A book review in The New York Times recounts Lerone Bennett Jr.'s "distortion by omission" in citing a letter from Abraham Lincoln...
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  • politician (b. 1934) February 14 Lois Barker, baseball player (b. 1923) Lerone Bennett Jr., scholar and author (b. 1928) Don Carter, investor (b. 1933) Marty...
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  • who have taken a stance on the subject, African-American scholar Lerone Bennett Jr stated that, "We ... need a new understanding—in the media, in the...
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  • King Jr. Maroon Tiger former editors and contributors include Geoff Bennett, Vann R. Newkirk II, Donovan Ramsey, Tre'vell Anderson, Lerone Bennett Jr., Shaun...
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    p58 "Crispus Attucks— First martyr of the American Revolution", by Lerone Bennett, Jr., Ebony magazine (July 1968) p87 KaaVonia Hinton, The Story of the...
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  • Name Original chapter Notability References Lerone Bennett, Jr. Pi Best selling author; Author of Before the Mayflower; editor of Ebony LeAlan Jones Theta...
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  • Before the Mayflower; A History of the Negro in America; 1619-1964 by Lerone Bennett Jr. Origins The Negro Pilgrimage in America or the African Past The story...
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  • politician, Governor of Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug (1991–1994). Lerone Bennett Jr., 89, American scholar and author, editor of Ebony, vascular dementia...
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  • Simpson Lerone Bennett, Jr. Albert Fitzpatrick William Raspberry Xernona Clayton Merv Aubespin John L. Dotson, Jr. Jim Vance Charles E. Cobb, Jr. Belva...
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