A Narrative of the Negro : Smidgen Press, : 9781950536214 : 1950536211 : 24 Jan 2022 : Black history does not begin with slavery. Come read the story of individuals and cultures throughout history, as collected by Leila Amos Pendleton, a Black community activist and teacher from the early 1900s. Her search for a full history, not just one rife with oppression, led her to the Library of Congress and the libraries at Yale and Harvard. She felt that if children of European descent were being taught to love the land of their "kinfolk," lands they had never seen with their own eyes, then young Black children should be able to take pride in where they came from, too. A window in time: this book was published shortly after the founding of the NAACP and a year before "Aunt Harriet" Tubman's death. From ancient African civilizations and the African diaspora, through Caribbean and South American Black history, and into American history up to her own current-day events, Leila Pendleton offe