A Guide to Negro history in America / by Phillip T. Drotning.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Garden City, N.Y. : Doubleday, c1968.Description: xiv, 247 p. 22 cmSubject(s): LOC classification:
  • E 185 .D838 1968
Summary: First Edition. Hardback with dust jacket. Phillip T. Drotning, author. Preface by Senator Edward W. Brooke. Printed in the USA. Total 247 pages.Doubleday & Company, Inc. Garden City, NY, 1968. Spine is tight and straight, pages are clean. The pages are lightly tanned due to age of book, but not any damage or tears, etc. "Most Americans, both black and white, if asked about negro contributions to American Life and history, would answer with a blank stare. And the reason is simple. The Nego's part in shaping our country is perhaps the most neglected of all topics in our history books." "Here is history that the reader can see and touch, in the monuments, battlefields, and buildings that testify to the contribution of Negroes to America. Using a unique format, the author has traced the Negro role in the progress of America and associated each event with physical locations in each of the fifty states." Excellent read!! Book itself is cloth royal blue boards with black spine and gold lettering on spine. "www.shelfari.com"
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American Learning Resource American Learning Resource Aklatang Emilio Aguinaldo-Information Resource Center E 185 .D838 1968 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 9ALRC201101904

Includes index.

First Edition. Hardback with dust jacket. Phillip T. Drotning, author. Preface by Senator Edward W. Brooke. Printed in the USA. Total 247 pages.Doubleday & Company, Inc. Garden City, NY, 1968. Spine is tight and straight, pages are clean. The pages are lightly tanned due to age of book, but not any damage or tears, etc. "Most Americans, both black and white, if asked about negro contributions to American Life and history, would answer with a blank stare. And the reason is simple. The Nego's part in shaping our country is perhaps the most neglected of all topics in our history books." "Here is history that the reader can see and touch, in the monuments, battlefields, and buildings that testify to the contribution of Negroes to America. Using a unique format, the author has traced the Negro role in the progress of America and associated each event with physical locations in each of the fifty states." Excellent read!! Book itself is cloth royal blue boards with black spine and gold lettering on spine. "www.shelfari.com"

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