Was Jesus Christ a Negro? and The African Origin of the Myths & Legends of the Garden of Eden

2015 Reprint of 1933 Edition. Jackson was born in Aiken South Carolina on April 1 1907 and raised Methodist. At the age of 15 he moved to Harlem New York where he enrolled in Stuyvesant High School. During this time he became interested in African-American history and culture and began writing essays on the subject. They were so impressive that in 1925 while still a high school student Jackson was invited to write for Marcus Garveys newspaper Negro World. From 1930 onwards Jackson became associated with a number of Pan-African historians activists and writers including Hubert Harrison Arturo Alfonso Schomburg John Henrik Clarke Willis Nathaniel Huggins and Joel Augustus Rogers. He also authored a number of books on African history promoting a Pan-African and Afrocentrist view. Was Jesus Christ a Negro? is one of these tracts. It is accompanied by a second related tract The African Origin of the Myths and Legends of the Garden of Eden also included in the second part of Was Jesus Christ a Negro? in which he argued that Jesus may have been a black man.