John Henrik Clarke, was an American historian, professor, and a pioneer in the creation of Pan-African and Africana studies, and professional institutions in academia starting in the late 1960s. Clarke was born, 'John Henry Clark,' on January 1, 1915, in Union Springs, Alabama. He was the youngest child of John, a sharecropper, and Willie Ella […]
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