Philip Randolph’s radical-socialist Messenger Magazine during the Harlem Renaissance. Rogers wrote regularly for the Pittsburgh Courier, the New York Amsterdam News, and the Chicago Defender, and he contributed several important essays to A.
Rogers was soon launched on a path that would make him one of the leading black journalists of his generation. In 1921, Rogers moved to Harlem, met and became friends with both Hubert Harrison, the West Indian radical activist and writer, and the African-American journalist and novelist George S. According to his biographer, Thabiti Asukile, he enrolled in the Chicago Art Institute in 1909, supporting himself as a Pullman porter during the summers between 19. According to his wife, his father was a schoolteacher and a Methodist minister in Jamaica, before becoming the manager of “a large plantation.” Joel Rogers served in the British army in the Royal Garrison Artillery in Port Royal, Jamaica, then migrated to the United States in 1906. Rogers was a self-educated man, by and large.
He challenged prevailing ideas about race, demonstrated the connections between civilizations, and traced African achievements. His research spanned the academic fields of history, sociology, and anthropology. Joel Augustus Rogers (September 6, 1880, or 1883 – March 26, 1966) was a Jamaican author, journalist, and historian who contributed to the history of Africa and the African diaspora, especially the history of African Americans in the United States. Rogers is a Top 100 Bestselling Author Making Our List 53 Times
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