The African Americans

Search for Truth and Knowledge

By Dr. Leonard Jeffries, Jr.

Part Two: Objectives

This work is intended to shed a truer light on the history of African Americans and destroy many of the following concepts:

• Myths of Africa as the Dark Continent
• Misconceptions of African peoples as inferior to others
• Misinformation of African impact on Europe and America
• Erroneous facts about the Free African in America
• Misinterpretations about the African American role in the American Revolution
• Falsifications concerning the African American and the Civil War and Slavery
• Distortions about the significance of African Americans in the Reconstruction and National Development
• Omissions concerning then importance of African Americans to the Science and Technology of America
• Lack of understanding of the role of the African American as an ethical and moral barometer of the American Creed
• Faulty analyses of the place of African Americans in American society today