100 Amazing Facts About the Negro with Complete Proof. J. A. Rogers
100 AMAZING FACTS
ABOUT THE NEGRO With Complete Proof
A BLACK CHAMPION OF GERMANY AND A WHITE ONE
(See Proof No. 53)
1. St. Maurice, celestial saint of Germany, wearing the German eagle on his head. 2. Hitler, centuries later, also with the German eagle. 3. Golden jeweled mask of St. Maurice in the treasure of the Abbey of St. Maurice in Switzerland. Note the Negroid aspect of the mask.
GEN ALFRED A. DODDS
(For biographical data see section 82, page 38 in this book)
ANCIENT NEGRO GODS OP THE OLD AND NEW WORLD
1. The Sphinx. Distinctly Negroid, especially the mouth. The uraeus on the forehead is a sign of divinity. (See No. 47). 2. Venus of Willen dorf. Woolly hair, breasts, hips, and labia majora like those of African Bushwoman. The face was probably painted on. (See Nos. 6 and 7). 3. Negro deity from Nicaragua, Central America. Probably tens of thousands of years old. (Prom American Museum of Natural History). 4. Negro idols from prehistoric Mexico. 5. Gigantic head of Negro god from Hueyapan, Mexico, one of the oldest known representations of a human being in the New Yorld. (See No. 16). All are indisputable proof of the Negro’s great antiquity, and that he did not start as a slave to white people.
“THE BRAVEST OF THE BRAVE”
SOME CONGRESSIONAL MEDAL AND VICTORIA CROSS WINNERS.
(See Proof No. 85)
100 AMAZING FACTS ABOUT THE NEGRO
WITH COMPLETE PROOF
A Short Cut to The World History of The Negro
by
J. A. ROGERS
as well as additional information by the author and a biographical sketch by Helga M. Rogers
Author “From Superman to Man,” “World’s Greatest Men and Women of Color,” “Sex and Race,” etc., etc.
HELGA M. ROGERS
Copyright © 1995 Helga M. Rogers
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CONTENTS
Warfare — Commanders
Warfare — Men
Miscellaneous
Proof
Answers to Quiz
The Arts
Ancient Civilizations
Illiteracy and Intelligence
Exploration
Science and Invention
Jews and Ethiopians
Medicine
Politics
Race-Mixing
Religion
Rulers
Slavery
Sports
Warfare — Commanders
Warfare — Men
Miscellaneous
List of World’s Greatest Men and Women of African Descent
Other Outstanding Facts of Negro Progress
J.A. Rogers was born on September 6, 1880 in Negril, Parish Westmoreland, Jamaica, British West Indies to Samuel Rogers, a school teacher and Methodist minister, and Emily Johnstone. Emily bore Samuel four children, Joel Augustus, Martin, Ivy and Oswald. When I once asked him, where he got the name Joel, his answer was: “Simple, Joel was Samuel’s first son in the Old Testament.” Joel’s mother died in 1886 in Buff Bay, of dysentery, about a month after the birth of Oswald. A grieving widower, “crying and all broken up” Samuel soon moved to St. Ann’s Bay, where he met and courted his second wife, who bore him another seven children, the first one born in May 1888. In the meantime, Ivy, born in 1884, was sent to live with her maternal grandmother, who had a girls’ school in Savanna-La-Mar. Ivy did not cherish that experience, remembering her grandmother as stern and very hard on her. Samuel moved from school to school, always trying to better his financial situation. In the end, he became the manager of a large plantation, Stetten. When we were in Jamaica in 1965, Joel remembered the location exactly, recognizing the roads leading to it, but the estate itself was gone. Joel remembered his stepmother not unkindly. He felt that she had treated her stepchildren well, “according to her lights”, but that “her love was for her own children” and Joel and his brother Martin were none too pleased when they saw her pregnant again and again—“now, there will be even less affection