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Benjamin Griffith Brawley


Born
in The United States
April 22, 1882

Died
February 01, 1939


Benjamin Griffith Brawley was a prominent African-American author and educator. Several of his books were considered standard college texts, including The Negro in Literature and Art in the United States (1918) and New Survey of English Literature (1925).

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A   Social History of the A...

3.93 avg rating — 15 ratings — published 1921 — 89 editions
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Your Negro Neighbor

3.40 avg rating — 5 ratings — published 1918 — 40 editions
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Early Black American Writers

3.20 avg rating — 5 ratings — published 1935 — 4 editions
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Women of Achievement

3.50 avg rating — 4 ratings — published 1919 — 36 editions
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History of Morehouse College

it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 1917 — 26 editions
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A Short History of the Amer...

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Negro Genius

3.50 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 1937 — 8 editions
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The Negro in Literature and...

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A Social History of the Ame...

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“One might have supposed that on all this proscription and denial of the ordinary rights of human beings the Christian Church would have taken a positive stand. Unfortunately, as so often happens, it was on the side of property and vested interest rather than on that of the oppressed.”
Benjamin Griffith Brawley, A Social History of the American Negro - Being a History of the Negro Problem in the United States Including a History and Study of the Republic of

“leaders of the colonization movement endeavored to educate Negroes in mechanic arts, agriculture, science, and Biblical literature.”
Benjamin Griffith Brawley, A Social History of the American Negro - Being a History of the Negro Problem in the United States Including a History and Study of the Republic of

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