James Williams Book Report

Chancellor James Williams, the younger sibling of five children. Dr. William was born in Bennetsville, South Carolina on December 22, 1898. His father had been a slave; his mother a cook, nurse and evangelist. Dr. Williams was a great writer who received a wide acclaim as an author of the 1971 publication, The Destruction of Black Civilization—Great Issues of a Race from 4500 B.C. to 2000 A.D. Dr. Williams was one of our most outstanding scholars because of his book and because of it many people described his book as a foundation and new approach to the history of their race. In this book, Chancellor James William was a man searching for answers. He was on a mission and wasn’t looking to become a scholar of anything. He was a man who felt wrong and wanted to correct the history being told by many. He wanted to go out there and find the correct information because

William wanted all his questions answered from, “Why is it that white folks had everything and Africans had nothing?” to “How Africans became white folks slaves in the first place?” His biggest concern in pre-history was, what had happened. He wanted to know how the highly advanced Black Civilization so completely destroyed that its people where finding themselves not only hiding behind other people of the world but hiding behind their color of their own skin. He didn’t know how to see it, the badge of slavery whether bond or free. No books or schools gave any answers on what Dr. William wanted answered. He knew that all the books that he would read and have read only where about Blacks written by the conquerors which only affected their viewpoint. Although, he wanted to know the good and the bad of the real African history, for he know it would “be a continuing degradation of the African people if they destroyed the present system of racial lies and embedded in the world literature only to replace it with glorified fiction based more on wishful thinking than on labors of historical research.”