8 Books Published by Helga Rogers on AALBC — Book Cover Collage

Click for more detail about The Five Negro Presidents by J. A. Rogers The Five Negro Presidents

by J. A. Rogers
Helga Rogers (Aug 27, 2017)
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Maybe Barack Obama was not the first.

Historian Joel Augustus Rogers provides his evidence that there have been nineteenth- and twentieth-century presidents of the United States who had partial black ancestry, including Harding, Jefferson, Jackson and Lincoln.


Click for more detail about From “Superman” to Man by J. A. Rogers From “Superman” to Man

by J. A. Rogers
Helga Rogers (Jan 01, 1996)
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Joel Augustus Roger’s seminal work, this novel first published in 1917 is a polemic against the ignorance that fuels racism. The central plot revolves around a debate between a Pullman porter and a white racist Southern politician.

“A genuine treasure. I still insist that From ‘Superman’ to Man is the greatest book ever written in English on the Negro by a Negro and I am glad to know that increasing thousands of black and white readers re-echo the high opinion of it which I had expressed some years ago.”


Click for more detail about 100 Amazing Facts About the Negro with Complete Proof by J. A. Rogers 100 Amazing Facts About the Negro with Complete Proof

by J. A. Rogers
Helga Rogers (Jun 15, 1980)
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First published in 1934 and revised in 1962, this book gathers journalist and historian Joel Augustus Rogers’ columns from the syndicated newspaper feature titled Your History. Patterned after the look of Ripley’s popular Believe It or Not the multiple vignettes in each episode recount short items from Rogers’s research. The feature began in the Pittsburgh Courier in November 1934 and ran through the 1960s.


Click for more detail about Nature Knows No Color-Line: Research Into The Negro Ancestry In The White Race by J. A. Rogers Nature Knows No Color-Line: Research Into The Negro Ancestry In The White Race

by J. A. Rogers
Helga Rogers (Jun 01, 1980)
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In Nature Knows No Color-Line, originally published in 1952, historian Joel Augustus Rogers examines the origins of racial hierarchy and the color problem. Rogers was a humanist who believed that there were no scientifically evident racial divisions—all humans belong to one “race.” He believed that color prejudice generally evolved from issues of domination and power between two physiologically different groups. According to Rogers, color prejudice was then used a rationale for domination, subjugation and warfare. Societies developed myths and prejudices in order to pursue their own interests at the expense of other groups. This book argues that many instances of the contributions of black people had been left out of the history books, and gives many examples.


Click for more detail about Sex and Race, Vol. 3: Why White and Black Mix in Spite of Opposition by J. A. Rogers Sex and Race, Vol. 3: Why White and Black Mix in Spite of Opposition

by J. A. Rogers
Helga Rogers (Jun 15, 1972)
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Click for more detail about Sex and Race, Volume I: Negro-Caucasian Mixing in All Ages and All Lands: The Old World by J. A. Rogers Sex and Race, Volume I: Negro-Caucasian Mixing in All Ages and All Lands: The Old World

by J. A. Rogers
Helga Rogers (Jun 15, 1970)
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This book is dedicated to a better understanding among all the varieties of the human race. The merest common sense calls for such an understanding. Racial doctrines as they exist today negate intelligence. Indeed they furnish a paradox that exceeds any of the extravagences of Gilbert and sullivan. For instance, we had the great dictators, Hitler & Mussolini, openly saying that "race" is a fraud but cynically using it to unite their gullible followers. At the same time the two great democratic nations, Britan & America, while condeming Fascist and Nazi doctrines, and proclaiming equal justice for all, were using "race" as a fetish to keep their own citizens and sujects divided. White people were set against black peoples by the bogey of miscegenation. The purpopse of this book therore, is to see what and what have gone into the make up of this fearsome "bogey man". We shall see that mankind began as a single family; that the family circle widened and widened until it broke into segments, and with that come the illusion that the segments were no longer parts of the circle. Racial understanding , racial sympathy, is the key to permanent WORLD PEACE.


Click for more detail about Sex and Race: A History of White, Negro, and Indian Miscegenation in the Two Americas, Vol. 2: The New World by J. A. Rogers Sex and Race: A History of White, Negro, and Indian Miscegenation in the Two Americas, Vol. 2: The New World

by J. A. Rogers
Helga Rogers (Jun 01, 1967)
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Click for more detail about Africa’s Gift to America: The Afro-American in the Making and Saving of the United States : With New Supplement, Africa and Its Potentialities by J. A. Rogers Africa’s Gift to America: The Afro-American in the Making and Saving of the United States : With New Supplement, Africa and Its Potentialities

by J. A. Rogers
Helga Rogers (Jun 01, 1961)
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Originally published in 1959 and revised and expanded in 1989, this book asserts that Africans had contributed more to the world than was previously acknowledged. Historian Joel Augustus Rogers devoted a significant amount of his professional life to unearthing facts about people of African ancestry. He intended these findings to be a refutation of contemporary racist beliefs about the inferiority of blacks. Rogers asserted that the color of skin did not determine intellectual genius, and he publicized the great black civilizations that had flourished in Africa during antiquity. According to Rogers, many ancient African civilizations had been primal molders of Western civilization and culture.