ePub Lincoln's Bold Lion: The Life and Times of Brigadier General Martin Davis Hardin by James Huffstodt in History

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2015 Reprint of 1933 Edition. Jackson was born in Aiken; South Carolina; on April 1; 1907; and raised Methodist. At the age of 15 he moved to Harlem; New York; where he enrolled in Stuyvesant High School. During this time; he became interested in African-American history and culture and began writing essays on the subject. They were so impressive that in 1925; while still a high school student; Jackson was invited to write for Marcus Garvey's newspaper; "Negro World." From 1930 onwards; Jackson became associated with a number of Pan-African historians; activists and writers; including Hubert Harrison; Arturo Alfonso Schomburg; John Henrik Clarke; Willis Nathaniel Huggins and Joel Augustus Rogers. He also authored a number of books on African history; promoting a Pan-African and Afrocentrist view. "Was Jesus Christ a Negro?" is one of these tracts. It is accompanied by a second related tract "The African Origin of the Myths and Legends of the Garden of Eden;" also included in the second part of "Was Jesus Christ a Negro?" in which he argued that Jesus may have been a black man.