"Teach a child or nation that it springs from an inferior race and that is can never hope to overcome that inferiority, and you have made an obedient servant and a community of slaves." --George Wells Parker
In the words of George Wells Parker (1882-1931): "No race can lay claim to such glory as can the African race, and when the truth is known, as it must be known some day, all other races will bow to it, not because they wish, but because truth is a tyrant that admits of no falsity."
An historian and activist, George Wells Parker was born September 18, 1882, the son of Abraham W. Parker of Petersburg, Virginia and Augusta Bing of Charleston, South Carolina." After moving to Nebraska he attended Creighton University in Omaha, until his junior year, 1909-10. Later in life Parker became an enthusiastic supporter of Marcus Garvey, and performed a dynamic function in aiding Black people relocating to Omaha in 1916 and 1917.
In 1917 Parked helped found the Hamitic League of the World. The term "Hamitic" was a popular and progressive expression used at the time to denote African people. It was a term particularly applied to the great ancient African builders of grand civilizations. The declared aims of the Hamitic League of the World were:
"To inspire the Negro with new hopes; to make him openly proud of his race and of its great contributions to the religious development and civilization of mankind and to place in the hands of every race man and woman and child the facts which support the League's claim that the Negro Race is the greatest race the world has ever known."
In 1918 the Hamitic League of the World published a twenty-nine page pamphlet by Parker entitled The Children of the Sun which contained an enlightening section highlighting the African presence in classical African, Asian and European civilizations.
SOURCES:
Children Of The Sun, by George Wells Parker
African Origin Of The Grecian Civilization, by George Wells Parker
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