![C-SPAN Booknotes: Lerone Bennett's Forced Into Glory: Abraham Lincoln's White Dream | []](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/11cqRrhn4ML._SL175_.jpg "C-SPAN Booknotes: Lerone Bennett's Forced Into Glory: Abraham Lincoln's White Dream | []")
C-SPAN Booknotes: Lerone Bennett's Forced Into Glory: Abraham Lincoln's White Dream
-
Your Likes make Audible better!
'Likes' are shared on Facebook and Audible.com. We use your 'likes' to improve Audible.com for all our listeners.
You can turn off Audible.com sharing from your Account Details page.
OK
- Regular Price :$3.95Special Offer: Learn how to get this FREE !
-
Average Customer Rating
-
-
LENGTH1 hr
-
RELEASE DATE09-10-00
-
AUDIO FORMATS
-
Program TypeRadioTvProgram
-
PUBLISHER
People who bought this also bought...
Publisher's Summary
Lerone Bennett was born in Clarksdale, Mississippi. While being educated in the Jackson public school system, he worked with the high school newspaper and edited The Mississippi Enterprise, a local Black weekly paper. He attended Morehouse College in Atlanta working as an editor of the student newspaper. After graduation, Bennett became a reporter and editor for the Atlanta Daily World. In 1953, Bennett joined the Johnson Publishing Company working as the associate editor of Ebony and Jet until he became the chief editor in 1960. Bennett wrote many articles on African American history, resulting in the title "resident historian" of Johnson Publishing Company. His most noted work, the 1962 Before the Mayflower: A History of Black America, gives a chronological account of the African American experience in America. Bennett has also written poetry and fiction along with lecturing and teaching African American history. He has received honorary degrees from Morehouse, Lincoln University, and the University of Illinois. He was awarded the Literature Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters in 1978. (Broadcast Date: September 10, 2001)
Want to listen to previous editions of C-SPAN's Booknotes? You can find past programs by clicking on matching edition under periodicals.
(P) and © 2000 C-SPAN