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John Henrik Clarke (born John Henry Clark; January 1, – July 16, ) was an American historian, professor, and pioneer in the creation of Pan-African.
Born in , the oldest son of an Alabama sharecropper family, John Henrik Clarke was a self- trained historian and a leading figure in the development of.!
John Henrik Clarke
African-American historian (1915–1998)
John Henrik Clarke (born John Henry Clark; January 1, 1915 – July 16, 1998)[1] was an African-American historian, professor, prominent Afrocentrist,[2] and pioneer in the creation of Pan-African and Africana studies and professional institutions in academia starting in the late 1960s.[3]
Early life and education
He was born John Henry Clark on January 1, 1915, in Union Springs, Alabama,[4] the youngest child of John Clark, a sharecropper, and Willie Ella Clark, a washer woman, who died in 1922.[5] ).
With the hopes of earning enough money to buy land rather than sharecrop, his family moved to the closest mill town in Columbus, Georgia.
Counter to his mother's wishes for him to become a farmer, Clarke left Georgia in 1933 by freight train and went to Harlem, New York, as part of the Great Migration of rural blacks out of the South to northern citi