Founder of the Hamitic League of the World. Author of Children of the Sun (1918).
George Wells Parker was a writer, activist, philosopher, and historian. Born in Omaha in 1882, he attended Omaha High School, Creighton College, and Howard University. He returned to Omaha after college and began work in 1916 to resettle Great Migrants who were coming to the city to find opportunity and escape the brutality of Southern segregation. He was vice president of the Omaha Philosophical Society and the founder of the pro-Black Hamitic League of the World. Wells wrote for the Journal of Negro History and in 1918 published Children of the Sun, which argues ancient Greek (and therefore Western) civilization is rooted in Africa via ancient Egypt. Wells moved to Chicago in 1922 to work as a journalist died there in 1931.
George Wells Parker's body was returned to Omaha and he was buried in an unmarked grave at Forest Lawn Cemetery. His gravesite was recently located after 90 years and local historians raised money to provide the dignity of a headstone for this writer, intellectual, and civil rights leader.
George Wells Parker was a writer, activist, philosopher, and historian. Born in Omaha in 1882, he attended Omaha High School, Creighton College, and Howard University. He returned to Omaha after college and began work in 1916 to resettle Great Migrants who were coming to the city to find opportunity and escape the brutality of Southern segregation. He was vice president of the Omaha Philosophical Society and the founder of the pro-Black Hamitic League of the World. Wells wrote for the Journal of Negro History and in 1918 published Children of the Sun, which argues ancient Greek (and therefore Western) civilization is rooted in Africa via ancient Egypt. Wells moved to Chicago in 1922 to work as a journalist died there in 1931.
George Wells Parker's body was returned to Omaha and he was buried in an unmarked grave at Forest Lawn Cemetery. His gravesite was recently located after 90 years and local historians raised money to provide the dignity of a headstone for this writer, intellectual, and civil rights leader.
Founder of the Hamitic League of the World. Author of Children of the Sun (1918).
George Wells Parker was a writer, activist, philosopher, and historian. Born in Omaha in 1882, he attended Omaha High School, Creighton College, and Howard University. He returned to Omaha after college and began work in 1916 to resettle Great Migrants who were coming to the city to find opportunity and escape the brutality of Southern segregation. He was vice president of the Omaha Philosophical Society and the founder of the pro-Black Hamitic League of the World. Wells wrote for the Journal of Negro History and in 1918 published Children of the Sun, which argues ancient Greek (and therefore Western) civilization is rooted in Africa via ancient Egypt. Wells moved to Chicago in 1922 to work as a journalist died there in 1931.
George Wells Parker's body was returned to Omaha and he was buried in an unmarked grave at Forest Lawn Cemetery. His gravesite was recently located after 90 years and local historians raised money to provide the dignity of a headstone for this writer, intellectual, and civil rights leader.
George Wells Parker was a writer, activist, philosopher, and historian. Born in Omaha in 1882, he attended Omaha High School, Creighton College, and Howard University. He returned to Omaha after college and began work in 1916 to resettle Great Migrants who were coming to the city to find opportunity and escape the brutality of Southern segregation. He was vice president of the Omaha Philosophical Society and the founder of the pro-Black Hamitic League of the World. Wells wrote for the Journal of Negro History and in 1918 published Children of the Sun, which argues ancient Greek (and therefore Western) civilization is rooted in Africa via ancient Egypt. Wells moved to Chicago in 1922 to work as a journalist died there in 1931.
George Wells Parker's body was returned to Omaha and he was buried in an unmarked grave at Forest Lawn Cemetery. His gravesite was recently located after 90 years and local historians raised money to provide the dignity of a headstone for this writer, intellectual, and civil rights leader.
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Author of The Children of The Sun
"I close with the hope of a time when earthly values will be measured with a justice now deemed divine. It is then that Africa and her sun-browned children will be saluted."
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Buried Aug. 1, 1931.
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