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050			_aE 185.97.D4 _b.S75 1971
100			_aSterling, Dorothy, _d1913-2008. _970294
245		4	_aThe making of an Afro-American : _bMartin Robison Delany, 1812-1885 / _cby Dorothy Sterling.
260			_aGarden City, NY : _bDoubleday, _c1971
300			_a352 p. _c21 cm.
500			_aA Perspective book.
500			_aThe story of the father of black nationalism.--Cover.
504			_aBibliography: p. 333-345.
520			_a as well as prominent careers as an author, doctor, ethnologist, orator, judge, Freedmen's Bureau official, and spokesman for black nationalism. This assiduously researched biography brings into vivid focus the life and times of Delany, whose militant, uncompromising voice is as vital today as it was more than a century ago.
520			_a one of the first three blacks admitted to Harvard Medical School
520			_a the first black to hold field grade rank of U.S. Army major during the Civil War
520			_a the publisher, editor, and writer of one of the first black newspapers in the U.S.
520			_aDecades before Marcus Garvey, W. E. B. Du Bois, and Malcolm X, Martin Robison Delany (1812-1885) proclaimed his pride in being black, and demanded not only emancipation but independence for African Americans. Grandson of an African prince, son of a slave, Delany lived a life of singular achievement: the first African-American explorer to venture into the heart of Africa
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