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The destruction of Black civilization; great issues of a race from 4500 B.C. to 2000 A.D. / Chancellor Williams.

LIBRA - Rare DT14 .W53 1971 Banks copy
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Format:
Book
Author/Creator:
Williams, Chancellor, 1893-1992.
Contributor:
Joanna Banks Collection of African American Books (University of Pennsylvania)
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
Africa--Civilization.
Africa.
Civilization.
Federal City College. Media Center (former owner) (Banks Collection copy).
Local Subjects:
Federal City College. Media Center (former owner) (Banks Collection copy).
Penn Provenance:
Banks, Joanna (donor) (Banks Collection copy)
Physical Description:
xxiii pages, 1 unnumbered page, 234 pages, 6 unnumbered pages : maps. ; 23 cm
Place of Publication:
Dubuque, Iowa, Kendall/Hunt Publishing Company. 1971.
Contents:
I. The Overview
II. Ethiopia's Oldest Daughter: Egypt
III. Egypt: The Rise and Fall of Black Civilization
IV. The First Cataract: The Black World's New Borderline
V. The Two that Carried On
VI. The African Constitution: Birth of Democracy
VII. The Scattering of the People: Routes to Death and Resurrection
VIII. The Resurrection and the Life: Case Studies by States
IX. Central Africa: Evidence from a Small State
X. White Devils from the West
XI. The Last of the Black Empires
XII. A View from the Bridge.
Notes:
"Cover design by Sandra B. Johnson College of Fine Arts Howard University."
"This work is mainly concerned with the crucial issues involved in the rise and fall of early black civilization in Egypt and the Sudan, and the processes of the black-out of that civilization from history."--The Preview.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 226-229) and index.
Local Notes:
Kislak Center Banks Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2018 by Joanna Banks.
Banks Collection copy has stamp and call number of Federal City College Media Center on title page and title page verso.
ISBN:
0840304587
OCLC:
199534

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