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IDS 320-050

Life and Works of John Henrik Clarke

Web Assignment - Fall Semester, 2006
Visit the Clarke Course MySpace Page
 

Student:  T. Waddell

Fall 2006

 

LIST OF GREAT BOOKS ONE MOST HAVE IN ONES LIBRARY

 

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The Middle Passage:

White Ships/ Black Cargo 
   by Tom Feelings (Illustrator), John Henrik Clarke (Introduction)

 

The Middle Passage focuses attention on the torturous journey which brought slaves from Africa to the Americas, allowing readers to bear witness to the sufferings of an entire people

  

Introduction to African Civilizations
by John Jackson

(Adapted by  John Henrik Clarke)

 

The book challenges all the standard approaches to African history and will, no doubt, disturb a large number overnight "authorities" on Africa who will discover that they do not really know the depth of African history and the role that Africans played in creating early human societies.

  

Christopher Columbus and the

 Afrikan Holocaust

by John Henrik Clarke

 

John Henrik Clarke presents an interesting book that asks the question "Where's our Memorial?" The Jews, Irish and Asians remember what happened to them, but somewhere down the line, we forgot. As Dr. Clarke says, this was the biggest crime in history. Europeans set in motion a type of slavery that was inhumane and savage-like.

 

        

 

 

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Black American Short Stories
by John Henrik Clarke (Editor)

 

The success of John Henrik Clarke's "American  Negro Short Stories, "first published in 1966, affirmed the vitality and importance of black fiction.

  

William Styron's Nat Turner: Ten Black Writers Respond
by John Henrik Clarke

  

 Malcolm X: The Man and His Times
       by John Henrik Clarke (Editor)

 

An anthology of Malcolm X's writings, speeches, and manifestos.

 

 

      

 

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African People in

World History

by John Henrik Clarke

 

This lecture surveys the impact African people have made on world history. Dr. Clarke guides the reader along a narrative journey that spans from antiquity through present times.

  

New Dimensions in African History:  From the Nile Valley to the New World
        by John Henrik Clarke (Editor)

 

Marcus Garvey and the Vision of Africa
 by John Henrik Clarke (Editor)

 

A collection of articles by and about Marcus Garvey which provides an illuminating portrait of his life and work, aspirations and accomplishments.

 

 

      

 

The Education of the Negro Prior to 1861

Carter Godwin Woodson

 

  

 

The Education of the Negro Prior to 1861
by Carter Godwin Woodson

 

Africa Counts: Number and Pattern in African Culture

by Claudia Zaslavsky

 

  

My Life in Search of Africa

by John Henrik Clarke

 

This book finally uncovers the tumultuous life of this great figure. Through a series of autobiographical essays, Clarke looks back on his lifelong struggle to restore African history to its proper place in the context of world history.

 

        

 

Africans at the Crossroad: Notes on an African World Revolution

  

Harlem Voices from the Soul of Black America

by John Henrik Clarke

  

Africans at the Crossroads: Notes for an African World Revolution

by John Henrik Clarke

 

This book contains essays focusing on the African and African American freedom struggle in the African world, as well as detailed discussion of the uncompleted revolutions of five monumental African leaders.

  

Harlem USA

by John Henrik Clarke

 

This book about the neighborhood of Harlem includes an essay by James Baldwin, who grew up there and who knows it well.

 

 

        

 

 

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A Short History of the World

by H. G. Wells

 

These first real humans beings we know of in Europe appear already to have belonged to one or other of at least two very distinct races. One of these races was of a very high type indeed; it was tall and big brained. One of the women's skulls found exceeds in capacity that of the average man to-day. One of the men's skeletons is over six feet.

 

A Modern Utopia

by H. G. Wells

 

Since this may be the last book of the kind I shall ever publish, I have written into it as well as I can the heretical metaphysical skepticism upon which all my thinking rests, and I have inserted certain sections reflecting upon the established methods of sociological and economic science. . . .

 

  

The Outline of History (Vol. I & II)

by H. G. Wells

 

 

 

Student:  I. A. Fonah

Fall 2006

 

CROSSWORD PUZZLE based on John Henrik Clarke's African People in World History

 

HOW WELL DO YOU KNOW African People in World History?

In his book titled, African People in World History, John Henrik Clarke gives a brief summary of Africans in the framework of world history. The puzzle is based on the book so; you  have to read the work before completing the puzzle.

Directions: First, fill in the blanks. Then you use the words you find to answer the puzzle

Fill in the blanks

  1. “History is a _________ that people use to tell their political and cultural time of day.

  1. The land of the burn face people is also called____________.

  1. Ghana, Mali, and ____________ are the great empires of the west.

  2. Egyptians called their land_____________.

  3. “The real father of medicine” is _____________.

  4. “Tried to save Egypt from the worst aspect of Roman domination.”____________

  5. First to convert to Islam after Mohamed _____________.

  6. Built magnificent cities in Spain.______________.

  7. Founder of the Mali Empire_____________

  8. His great pilgrimage began in 1324______________

  9. Transatlantic slave trade sought to ____________ the slave.

  10. Africans were brought to South America and the Caribbean to replace  _________

  11. “The plantation system was a natural_____________ for slave revolts”.

  12. The French called runaway slaves ______________.

  13. Most successful slave revolt in history was the______________ slave revolt.

  14. Gave birth to the back to Africa idea_____________

  15. The only black man to succeed in building a mass movement among African Americans___________

  16. __________ and Bobby Seale organized the Black Panther Party.

  17. First African American to bid for president since Shirley Chisholm__________

  18. The first prime minister of Ghana was_____________

 

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