'Through his tiredless efforts Rogers became one of the most important popularizers of Black history during the twentieth century.'

Lawrence Watson, Unpublished thesis (abstract) 'Joel Augustus Rogers: Popularizer of Black History', January 1978.

in 1924

Selected writings

  From "Superman" to Man, 1917.

  As Nature Leads: An Informal Discussion of the Reason Why Negro and Caucasian Are Mixing in Spite of

  Opposition, 1919.

  The Approaching Storm and How It May Be Averted: An Open Letter to Congress and the 48 Legislatures

  of the United States of America, 1920.

  The Maroons of the West Indies and South America, 1921.

  The Ku Klux Klan Spirit: A Brief Outline of the History of the Ku Klux Klan Past and Present, 1923.

  100 Amazing Facts about the Negro, with Complete Proof: A Short Cut to the World History of the Negro,

  1934.

  Real Facts about Ethiopia, 1935.

  World's Greatest Men and Women of African Descent, 1935.

  Sex and Race: Negro-Caucasian Mixing in All Ages and Lands, 1940-44.

  World's Great Men of Color, 1946.

  Nature Knows No Color Line, 1952.

  Africa's Gift to America: The Afro-American in the Making and Saving of the United States, 1959.

  Facts about the Negro, 1960.

  She Walks in Beauty (fiction), 1963.

  Selected Writings of Joel Augustus Rogers, ed. Kinya Kiorgozi, 1989.

 'Decades before there was anything like an academic discipline of black

 studies, J.A. Rogers was a one-man historical army fighting to rescue the

 cultural contributions of Africans and African-descended peoples from the

 neglect to which white-dominated history-writing had consigned them.

 Publishing his own books and working without the benefit of any education

 beyond the high school level, Rogers produced a long series of books between

 1917 and 1966. An indefatigable researcher, he also had the gift of putting his

 ideas in words that touched ordinary readers; his books brought him a modest

 living, and many of them went through multiple editions.'

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