BLACK CHRONICLE

The Black Chronicle Book is like a reader's digest of African American history from day one to the Civil Rights Movement-except that it uses the original articles format from the newspapers of the past. Imagine being able to go back in time and read the original accounts of the Atlantic Daily Work, The Black Dispatch, Baltimore Afro-American, Chicago Defender, Cleveland Call and Post, New York, Amsterdam News, Pittsburgh Courier, and Philadelphia Tribune! This was the vision Maloyd Ben Wilson shared with the Emmy-Winning documentary film maker Henry Hampton which they brought to fruition with the now famous Black Chronicle. It is a uniquely excellent publication which includes a newspaper format that presents Black/American History in a more easy to read, exciting and compelling manner. "BLACK CHRONICLE", a book that debuted in 1999 portraying the history of the African- American people from the slave ships to beginning of the Civil Rights Movements in America 1778-1956. The BLACK CHRONICE like its predecessor "ROOTS" which inspired millions of Americans to research the untold truths of their nations' past. BLACK CHRONICLE is a compilation of news articles documenting the evolution of Blacks from the slave ships to the battle fields of the twentieth Century; fourteen (14) issues combined into a newspaper/magazine format dating from 1778-1956 that provide a most revealing insightful panorama of the events which shaped the Black experience in America.