No More Lies: The Myth and Reality of American HistoryHarperCollins, 16 feb 2021 - 400 pagina's Republished as part of Amistad’s Literary Revival Program, the groundbreaking, bestselling look at history from the perspective of African Americans: an essential classic that continues to speak to us today, written by the voice of black consciousness, Dick Gregory—the incomparable satirist, human rights and environmental activist, health advocate, social justice champion, and NAACP Image Award–winning author. No More Lies offers this incomparable satirist’s intellectual, conspiratorial, and humorous spin on the facts. No subject is off limits from his critical eye—Gregory examines numerous aspects of culture and history, from the slave trade, police brutality, the wretchedness of working-class life and labor unions to the 1968 Civil Rights Act, the Founding Fathers, “happy slaves,” and entrepreneurs. Although this absorbing book is more than forty years old, its provocative truths continue to reverberate in our lives today. With No More Lies, Gregory inspire a new generation to connect what is happening today with what has happened in the past. |
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... Virginia Company's London branch, found some financial backing from a group of English merchants known as the “Adventurers,” and set sail in the Mayflower. Even the voyage across seemed to prove that God was on the side of the Puritan ...
... Virginia, but the Puritans soon remembered that Episcopal (Church of England) ideas had already taken root there. New England was considered too cold, but the land around the Delaware River seemed ideal. Through the help of Sir Edwin ...
... Virginia were quite upset at the great number of “fellons and other desperate villianes sent hither from the prisons of England.” They petitioned their council for law and order to prevent the “barbarous designs and felonious practices ...
... king, defender of ye faith, &c., haveing undertaken, for ye glorie of God and advancement of ye Christian faith and honour of our king and countrie, a voyage to plant ye first colonie in ye Northerne parts of Virginia, doe.
... Virginia, doe by these presents solemnly and mutually in ye presence of God, and one of another, covenant and combine our selves together into a civill body politick, for our better ordering and preservation and furtherance of ye ends ...
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The Myth of the Savage | |
The Myth of the Founding Fathers | |
The Myth of Black Content | |
The Myth of the Courageous White Settler and the Free Frontier | |
The Myth of the MasonDixon Line | |
The Myth of Free Enterprise | |
The Myth of Emancipation | |
The Myth of the Bootstrap | |
The Myth of the Good Neighbor | |
The Myth of American Rhetoric | |
The Myth of Free Elections | |
Dr Martin Luther Kings Last Message to America | |
Index | |
About the Author | |