Black America's popular historian: Lerone Bennett Jr. almost retired after 50 years at Ebony. Now his next five books, like his first 10 works, will have to be written after hours, too.

Black Issues Book Review › Vol. 6 Nbr. 1, January 2004

Author: Dawkins, Wayne

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Black America's popular historian: Lerone Bennett Jr. almost retired after 50 years at Ebony. Now his next five books, like his first 10 works, will have to be written after hours, too.

Lerone Bennett Jr.'s plan was to retire from 50 years of magazine journalism so he could finish writing five books before he reaches age 80. The executive editor of Ebony magazine and author of Before the Mayflower: A History of Black America (Johnson Publishing Co., I...

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