In this volume, Rogers marshals historical records, portraits, and biographical detail to argue that people of African ancestry run through the family lines of European royalty, nobility, and celebrated figures — evidence, in his hands, that the supposed color line has no basis in fact. Written outside the academy and published by Rogers himself, the book capped decades of his self-directed research aimed at restoring Black contributions to world history. It was reprinted by Wesleyan University Press in 2011.
Author: J. A. Rogers (Joel Augustus Rogers) · Original publisher: Published by the author, New York, 1952 (full title: *Nature Knows No Color-Line: Research into the Negro Ancestry in the White Race*)
