The destruction of Black civilization: great issues of a race from 4500 B. C. to 2000 A. D. / by Chancellor Wiliams. Illustrated by Murray N. DePillars.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Williams, Chancellor, 1893-1992.

Contributor:

DePillars, Murry N. (Murry Norman), 1938-2008, illustrator.

Joanna Banks Collection of African American Books (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Africa--Civilization.

Africa.

Civilization.

Penn Provenance:

Banks, Joanna (bookplate) (donor) (Banks Collection copy)

Physical Description:

398 pages, 2 unnumbered pages : illustrations, maps ; 22 cm

Edition:

Revised Edition.

Place of Publication:

Chicago, Illinois, Third World Press 1974.

Contents:

Part I. The Preview; The Overview; Ethiopia's Oldest Daughter: Egypt; Egypt: The Rise and Fall of Black Civilization; The First Cataract: The Black World's New Borderline; The Two that Carried On; The African Constitution: Birth of Democracy; The Scattering of the People Routes to Death and Destruction; The Resurrection and the Life: Case Studies by States; Central Africa: Evidence from a Small State; White Devils from the West; The Last of the Black Empires

Part II. A View from the Bridge; The Black World at the Crossroads; Organizing a Race for Action; The Shape of Things to Come: A Master Plan.

Notes:

"While this book is still a summary of more detailed research, it seemed necessary to amplify certain questions and the answers to them."--Preface to revised and enlarged edition of Fifth Printing.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 387-393) and index.

Local Notes:

Kislak Center Banks Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2018 by Joanna Banks.

Banks Collection copy has bookplate of Joanna Banks.

Banks Collection copy has comic strip and obituary of Chancellor Williams cut from Washington Post laid in.

ISBN:

0840304587

OCLC:

3149945