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John Henrik Clarke (1915-1998), born John Henry Clark, was a Nationalist, Pan-Africanist, author, poet, historian, and Afrocentric lecturer and teacher. Clarke was one of the most significant influences on the search for identity known as the Afrocentric movement.

He was born on January 1, 1915 In Union Springs, Alabama to John, a sharecropper, and Willie Ella (Mays) Clarke, a washerwoman.

Clarke proclaimed his own search for identity to have begun as a child simply trying to understand the world around him. He considered his great grandmother "Mom Mary", the family historian, to have been his first teacher. She told him and his siblings stories about their family, its resistance to slavery and her first husband Buck who was sold to a stud farm for slaves in Virginia.

Clarke's systematic search for the role of people from Africa in history began when a lawyer for whom he worked told him that he "came from a people who had no history but, that if I persevered and obeyed the laws, my people might one day make history."

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