From the forward by Madalyn Murray O'Hair

Here again [John G. Jackson] presents to a world unwilling to listen his thesis that civilization has African roots ? not Indian, not Chinese, but African; that the original race of humankind was Black; and that magnificent cultures preceded the European. He again demands a hearing for the facts which, slowly now accumulating, support his thesis. What is more, he pinpoints the bias of the white Christian culture which would hold in contempt any but its own manufactured greatness and exclusivity.

About the Author

JOHN G. JACKSON was an educator, lecturer, author, and man of principle. He was born on April 1, 1907, into a family of Methodists. In old age, he averred he had been an Atheist since he became old enough to think. The family minister once asked him when he was small, "Who made you?" After some thought he replied from his own realization, "I don't know."

He lived for nearly fifty years in New York City, lecturing at the "Ingersoll Forum" of the American Association for the Advancement of Atheism (1930-1955). During a parallel period he wrote articles for the Truth Seeker magazine. From 1932 to 1972 he was a writer and associate of the Rationalist Press Association in London, England. A pioneer in the field of African and Afro-American studies, he taught such courses from 1971 to 1980 at Rutgers University, New York University, and in Illinois.

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ISBN-13:?9780910309905
Publisher:?American Atheist Press
Page Count: 331

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Standard history tests often gloss over the Reconstruction, leaving students with a vague impression that after the Civil War Southern governments were overrun by incompetent Blacks and carpetbaggers.

In Black Reconstruction in South Carolina, John G. Jackson dispels that myth. He carefully looks at South Carolina?s Reconstruction and finds that Blacks at that time used their offices to make priceless contributions to their state. He quotes their eloquence and their devotion to their state, and contrasts that to the treatment they and South Carolina received at the hands of the old Southern Guard.

About the Author

John G. Jackson was an educator, lecturer, author, and man of principle. He was born on April 1, 1907, into a family of Methodists. In old age, he averred he had been an Atheist since he became old enough to think. The family minister once asked him when he was small, ?Who made you?? After some thought he replied from his own realization, ?I don?t know.?

He lived for nearly fifty years in New York City, lecturing at the ?Ingersoll Forum? of the American Association for the Advancement of Atheism (1930-1955). During a parallel period he wrote articles for the Truth Seeker magazine. From 1932 to 1972 he was a writer and associate of the Rationalist Press Association in London, England. A pioneer in the field of African and Afro-American studies, he taught such courses from 1971 to 1980 at Rutgers University, New York University, and in Illinois.

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ISBN-13:?9780910309387
Publisher: American Atheist Press
Page Count: 64

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Nothing is new or original in Christianity. That is the important thesis demonstrated in Christianity Before Christ. The least important features, as well as the most important components, were all well developed in cultures that flourished before the time that Christ is alleged to have walked the parched paths of Roman Palestine. The information presented in this book is absolutely crucial if Atheists and other free thinkers are to understand the nature of the beast that threatens not only their liberties and rights as citizens in a secular republic, but also threatens to return world civilization itself back to the prescientific levels of the ancient cultures from which Christianity derived all its odd details. Every Atheist needs to know what is in this book!

About the Author

Robert M. Price was born in Jackson, Mississippi, and moved as a child to New Jersey where he attended a fundamentalist Baptist church. He even became president of a chapter of Intervarsity Christian Fellowship and was for a time an apologist of the sort he refutes in Beyond Born Again, Deconstructing Jesus, The Incredible Shrinking Son of Man, and Jesus Is Dead.

Editor of The Journal of Higher Criticism, he is also the author of The Widow Traditions in Luke-Acts, The Da Vinci Fraud, The Reason-Driven Life, and the monumental The Pre-Nicene New Testament.? He holds a PhD in Systematic Theology from Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary and a second PhD in New Testament from Drew University. He has served as Professor of Religion at Mount Olive College in North Carolina and is a member of the Jesus Seminar and its successor, the Jesus Project.

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ISBN-13: 9780910309202
Publisher:?American Atheist Press
Page Count:?237

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A short discussion of one of the foremost atheist lecturers and intellects of his time.

About the Author

John G. Jackson was an educator, lecturer, author, and man of principle. He was born on April 1, 1907, into a family of Methodists. In old age, he averred he had been an Atheist since he became old enough to think. The family minister once asked him when he was small, ?Who made you?? After some thought he replied from his own realization, ?I don?t know.?

He lived for nearly fifty years in New York City, lecturing at the ?Ingersoll Forum? of the American Association for the Advancement of Atheism (1930-1955). During a parallel period he wrote articles for the Truth Seeker magazine. From 1932 to 1972 he was a writer and associate of the Rationalist Press Association in London, England. A pioneer in the field of African and Afro-American studies, he taught such courses from 1971 to 1980 at Rutgers University, New York University, and in Illinois.

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ISBN-13:?9780910309356
Publisher:?American Atheist Press
Page Count:?10

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This short paperback examines the history of the origins of the Christ Myth and its links to Paganism. A more complete investigation can be found in Christianity Before Christ,?Jackson's most popular work published by American Atheists Press.

About the Author

John G. Jackson was an educator, lecturer, author, and man of principle. He was born on April 1, 1907, into a family of Methodists. In old age, he averred he had been an Atheist since he became old enough to think. The family minister once asked him when he was small, ?Who made you?? After some thought he replied from his own realization, ?I don?t know.?

He lived for nearly fifty years in New York City, lecturing at the ?Ingersoll Forum? of the American Association for the Advancement of Atheism (1930-1955). During a parallel period he wrote articles for the Truth Seeker magazine. From 1932 to 1972 he was a writer and associate of the Rationalist Press Association in London, England. A pioneer in the field of African and Afro-American studies, he taught such courses from 1971 to 1980 at Rutgers University, New York University, and in Illinois.

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ISBN-13:?9780910309530
Publisher:?American Atheist Press
Page Count:?36

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