The first edition of Joel Augustus Rogers\'s now legendary 100 Amazing Facts about the Negro with Complete Proof, published in 1957, was billed as "A Negro \'Believe It or Not.\'" Rogers\'s little book was priceless because he was delivering enlightenment and pride, steeped in historical research, to a people too long starved on the lie that they were worth nothing.
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For African Americans of the Jim Crow era, Rogers\'s was their first black history teacher.
The first edition of Joel Augustus Rogers\'s now legendary 100 Amazing Facts about the Negro with Complete Proof, published in 1957, was billed as "A Negro \'Believe It or Not.\'" Rogers\'s little book was priceless because he was delivering enlightenment and pride, steeped in historical research, to a people too long starved on the lie that they were worth nothing
