John G. Jackson (writer)
John G. Jackson | |
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Born | John Glover Jackson April 1, 1907 Aiken, South Carolina, U.S. |
Died | October 13, 1993 | (aged 86)
Occupation(s) | Pan-Africanist, historian, lecturer, teacher, writer, atheism activist |
John Glover Jackson (April 1, 1907 – October 13, 1993) was an American
Early life and education
Jackson was born in
Career
From 1930 onwards, Jackson became associated with a number of
Jackson had previously lauded Harrison, and other Black atheists of Harlem, in a 1984 speech at the American Atheists national convention entitled 'The Black Atheists of the Harlem Renaissance'.[6]
During the five decades that he lived in New York, Jackson lectured at the Robert G. Ingersoll Forum of the American Association for the Advancement of Atheism. In his senior years, he revealed that he'd disbelieved in God from the moment he was old enough to think.[7]
Throughout his life, Jackson also served as associate director of the Blyden Society and lectured at many colleges and universities throughout the United States. He died on October 13, 1993.
Selected bibliography
- Ethiopia and the Origin of Civilization (1939)
- Pagan Origins of the Christ Myth (1941)
- Man, God, and Civilization (1972)
- Introduction to African Civilizations (1974)
- Foreword to Gerald Massey's Lectures (1974)
- The Mysteries of Egypt (1980)
- The African Origin of Christianity (1981)
- "Egypt and Christianity" in, Ivan van Sertima, ed., Egypt Revisited, pap. 65–80 (New Brunswick: Journal of African Civilisations, Volume 4, Number 2, 1982)
- The African Origin of the Myths and Legends of the Garden of Eden (1984)
- Was Jesus Christ a Negro? (1984)
- Christianity Before Christ (1985)
- Black Reconstruction in South Carolina (1987)
- The Golden Ages of Africa (1987)
- Hubert H. Harrison: The Black Socrates (1987)
- Ages of Gold and Silver and Other Short Sketches of Human History (1990)
- Introduction to The Story of the Moors in Spain (1990)
- The Empire of the Moors (1992)
- Krishna and Buddha: Black Gods of Asia. African Presence Early Asia (1996)
See also
- Pan-Africanism
- Afrocentrism
- Black Nationalism
- Willis Nathaniel Huggins
- Gerald Massey
- Kersey Graves
- Hubert Harrison
- Arturo Alfonso Schomburg
- John Henrik Clarke
- African diaspora
- Yosef Ben-Jochannan
- Chancellor Williams
- Cheikh Anta Diop
References
- ISBN 0-910309-20-5.
- ^ AfricaWithin, short biography. Archived July 20, 2008, at the Wayback Machine
- ^ Africa Within, bibliography. Archived April 18, 2008, at the Wayback Machine
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- ^ "Hubert Henry Harrison: The Black Socrates".
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(help) - ^ John G., Jackson. "The Black Atheists of the Harlem Renaissance". American Atheists. nationofatheism.tripod.com.
- ISBN 0910309205.