Joel Augustus Rogers
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Joel Augustus Rogers (September 6, 1880 (some sources say 1883 [1] [2]) — September 6, 1966) was born in Negril, Jamaica and migrated to the United States in 1911. He worked as Pullman porter while trying to establish a career as a journalist and lay historian of African history, biography and race relations.
Rogers' first book, From "Superman" to Man, self-published in (1917), attacked notions of African inferiority. In the 1920's he worked as a journalist on the Pittsburgh Courier, the Chicago Entrerprise, was a sub-editor of Marcus Garvey's short-lived Daily Negro Times in 1922 and made contributions to Negro World. In 1947 he published a collection of biographies as World's Great Men of Color.
Rogers was a meticulous researcher, astute scholar and very concise writer. He traveled tirelessly on his quest for knowledge which often took him directly to the source for information for his books. While traveling in Europe he frequented libraries, museums, castles and many places of interest that would help to prove Africans had an ancestry and history that the world could and should be proud of. He challenged the biased viewpoint of Eurocentric historians and anthropologist eventually destroying the myth of African inferiority through his books Sex and Race Vol. I-III.
Rogers worked to prove that color of skin is not what determines intellectual genius and that Africans have contributed much more to the world than what was previously stated. Most of this was brought forth through his work, From Superman to Man, in which he exposed the extreme contradiction in American political and social environments in The Five Negro Presidents.
Rogers was self-financed, self educated, self-published. His collections of works are enormous exstensive complete with detailed references documented ever so carefully to prevent scrutiny of his facts are a testament to his due diligence, work ethic and commitment to not only African people, but the world, its history and culture.
Rogers contributions have not been fully understood and may not be for some time to come. Rogers was one of the first to detail the lineage of the Queen of England to the Moorish Queen Charlotte Sophia Consort of Kinf William III of England.
Rogers interviewed Marcus Garvey in prison (New York Amsterdam News, 17 November 1926).
Joel Augustus Rogers died on his birthday, March 26?/ 6 September, 1966.
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- Garvey, Marcus M. (1987). The Marcus Garvey and Universal Negro Improvement Association Papers. University of California Press. ISBN 0-520-05817-8
- Harrison, Hubert H. (2001). A Hubert Harrison Reader. Wesleyan University Press. ISBN 0-8195-6470-2
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[edit] BIBLIOGRAPHY -- J.A. ROGERS
1. From Superman to Man
2. As Nature Leads: an informal discussion of the reason why Negro and Caucasian are mixing in spite of opposition.
3. The Approaching Storm and How It May Be Averted.
4. The Ku Klux Sprit: a brief outline of the history of the Ku Klux Klan past and present.
5. World's Greatest Men of African Descent.
6. One Hundred Amazing Facts about the Negro: with complete shortcut to the world history of the Negro.
7. World's Greatest Men and Women of African Descent.
8. Noel was a murdurer
9. Your History from the Beginning of Time to the Present
10. Sex and Race: Negro-Caucasian Mixing in all Ages and all Lands (3 vols.).
11. World's Great Men of Color (2 vols.).
12. Nature Knows No Color Line: research in the Negro ancestry in the white race.
13. Africa's Gift to America: the Afro-American in the making and saving of the United States with new supplement: Africa and its potentialities.
14. Facts about the Negro.
15. Five Negro Presidents
