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20th-Century Black Thinkers & Their Key Publications
Thinker
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Lifespan
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Major Publications
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Dr. John Henrik Clarke
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1915–1998
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Christopher Columbus and the Afrikan Holocaust (1992), African People in World History (1993), The Destruction of Black Civilization (foreword, 1971)
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Cheikh Anta Diop
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1923–1986
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The African Origin of Civilization: Myth or Reality (1974), Precolonial Black Africa (1960), Civilization or Barbarism (1981)
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Dr. Yosef Ben-Jochannan
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1918–2015
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Africa: Mother of Western Civilization (1971), Black Man of the Nile and His Family (1972)
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Ivan Van Sertima
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1935–2009
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They Came Before Columbus (1976), African Presence in Early America (1987)
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Chancellor Williams
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1893–1992
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The Destruction of Black Civilization (1971), The Rebirth of African Civilization (1961)
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W.E.B. Du Bois
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1868–1963
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The Souls of Black Folk (1903), Black Reconstruction in America (1935)
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John G. Jackson
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1907–1993
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Introduction to African Civilizations (1970), Pagan Origins of the Christ Myth (1981)
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Runoko Rashidi
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1954–2021
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The Global African Community (1998)
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Marimba Ani
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b. 1940
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Yurugu: An African-Centered Critique of European Cultural Thought and Behavior (1994)
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Frances Cress Welsing
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1935–2016
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The Isis Papers (1991)
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Tony Martin
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1942–2013
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The Pan-African Connection (1983), Race First (1976)
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Asa G. Hilliard III
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1933–2007
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The Maroon Within Us (1995), African Power (2002)
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Amos Wilson
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1941–1995
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Blueprint for Black Power (1998), The Falsification of Afrikan Consciousness (1993)
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Elijah Muhammad
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1897–1975
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Message to the Blackman in America (1965), The Fall of America (1973)
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Noble Drew Ali
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1886–1929
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The Holy Koran of the Moorish Science Temple (1927)
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Marcus Garvey
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1887–1940
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The Philosophy and Opinions of Marcus Garvey (1923), Message to the People (posth. 1986)
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