Download or read book The Shaping of Black America written by Lerone Bennett and published by Penguin Group. This book was released on 1993 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a triumphant companion volume to his epochal Before the Mayflower, Bennett renders the African American experience chronologically, telling its story from a developmental perspective. A bold and literate work demonstrating "that blacks lived in a different time and different reality in this country".