Prometheus 6   

So you know I'm not goofing off

My constructive thing that I decided to do yesterday was to convert some public domain texts of particular use to anyone really interested in Black history into a small web library. The first book is basically done. I just have to decide how I want present the collection. I don't want individual links to the books in a sidebar because I think it would be a good idea to write a little introduction to each one. And then there are some that should be collected, like the short stories by G.K. Chesterton.

Decisions, decision …

Anyway, the first one is a history book. Titled "The Black Experience in America - The Immigrant Heritage of America", it was donated to the public domain by the author, Norman Coombs. This is a gesture I will be forever grateful for. If you've ever wondered what the history of the USofA would read like from the perspectie of the Black community, this is it. This book and "The Shaping of Black America" by Lerone Bennett should be folded into every history book in the country. If they were, Black History Month would become a quaint and unnecessary gesture.

It covers a lot of territory, from pre-Colonial Africa through the 1960s. And I have to work an intro page because I put like 3 or 4 anchors to the major sections of the twelve(!) chapters, so I need to work the intro page with links and decriptions of the targeted sections. But I'm making it available now because there will be no more changes to the book itself or its location so it's safe to bookmark.

posted by Prometheus 6 at 5/11/2003 06:32:33 PM |