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by M. Swift - October 5, 2024 0 0

Originating in North London's Hornsey area, New Beacon Books established itself in the late 1960s as England's first Black-owned and operated publishing house. The publisher also served as a bookstore and distributor of books from Black and Asian writers hailing from the Caribbean, the UK, Africa, and the U.S. History of New Beacon Books Tak...

by M. Swift - September 26, 2024 0 0

The Black Book Fair or The International Book Fair of Radical Black and Third World Books (International Book Fair), was a summit for Black writers, artists, publishers, intellectuals, academics, and readers that ran from 1982 to 1995. The History of the Black Book Fair and Festival The original three fairs were based in three London areas ...

by Jae Jones - February 6, 2017 0 1

Lyman Tefft Johnson was an American educator and influential role model for racial desegregation in Kentucky. He is best known as the plaintiff whose successful legal challenge opened the University of Kentucky to African-American students in 1949. Born in Columbia, Tennessee in 1906, Johnson was the eighth of nine children and the grandson of ...

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