“His love of history, his love of truth and his commitment to justice were unmatched. Barbara Ransby, a University of Illinois-Chicago professor of History, African-American Studies and Gender and Women’s Studies. “It is powerfully symbolic that Lerone Bennett – journalist, historian, scholar extraordinaire – passed on Valentine’s Day,” said Dr.
During his career, Bennett received honorary degrees from universities as varied as the University of Illinois, Marquette, Wilberforce and his alma mater, Morehouse. Woodson Lifetime Achievement Award from the Association For The Study of African American Life And History. In 2003, Bennett was awarded the Carter G. “Bennett offered not only the craftsmanship and discipline of the historian, but he wrote and worked with a commitment to the practice of liberation,” said Tinson, who has researched and written about Bennett. Christopher Tinson, an associate professor of Africana Studies and History at Hampshire College, called Bennett “one of the foremost historians of the African experience globally, but certainly in the United States.” His works contended that Lincoln was incessantly pushed by abolitionists and compelled by priorities of preserving the Union and defeating the Confederacy, including the president’s decision to write a statute that did not free enslaved Blacks in the slaveholding U.S.
His other works include Confrontation: Black And White (1965), Black Power USA (1967), Wade In The Water: Great Moments In Black History (1979) and Forced Into Glory: Abraham Lincoln’s White Dream (2000).įor decades, Bennett debunked the notion that President Lincoln was a racial visionary or altruistic leader in terms of emancipation. In 1964 with What Manner Of Man, Bennett wrote the first prominent biography of the Rev. Peniel Joseph, a professor of History and Public Affairs at the University of Texas at Austin, adding that Bennett was “one of the true giants of Black history.” “His writings helped to popularize and mainstream the study of the African diaspora for generations of Black folk domestically and internationally,” said Dr.
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