In Chapter 3, “‘The Founding of Black America,” Bennett tells the story of the crucial role black patriots played in the American Revolution, including the legendary Crispus Attucks, who, as the first person to die in the Revolution, has been a source of immense pride for black Americans.
His most influential book has been Before the Mayflower, first published in 1962. Hailed as one of the country’s best popular historians, he has played an enormous role in conveying the power of the Black presence in American history, as well as showing the way to better communications not only between Blacks and whites, but between Blacks and their own constituencies, as he did in Confrontation: Black and White (1965). Author of many articles, short stories, and poems, he became a mainstay of Chicago’s Johnson Publishing Co., writing ten books for them, including Pioneers in Protest (1968), and The Challenge of Blackness (1972). He has also been a visiting professor of history at Northwestern, senior fellow of the Institute of the Black World, and member of the board of directors of the Chicago Public Library.
Born in iconic Clarksdale, Mississippi, October 17, 1928, Lerone Bennett, Jr., came to Chicago in 1953 to become associate editor of Jet magazine, then associate and senior editor at Ebony starting in 1954.
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