THE GLOBAL AFRICAN COMMUNITY
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Arch of Septimius SeverusSEPTIMIUS SEVERUS (AFRICAN EMPEROR OF ROME)
A SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHYCompiled by RUNOKO RASHIDI
"At the time that the twelve African Christian martyrs died in A.D. 180 there were living two great African personages: Septimus Severus, who later became Emperor of Rome; and Tertullian, one of the great of Church leaders."
--J.C. DeGraft-Johnson
Birley, Anthony. Septimius Severus: The African Emperor. Garden City: Doubleday, 1972.
Brilliant, Richard. The Arch of Septimius Severus in the Roman Forum. Rome: American Academy of Rome, 1967.
Carlisle, Edward E., and Josephine E. Carlisle. "Septimius Severus (Negro Emperor of Rome)." Chapter in Historical Sketches of the Ancient Negro: A Compilation. 1920; rpt. London: African Publication Society, 1981: 76-97.
DeGraft-Johnson, J.C. "Africa Romana." Chapter in African Glory: The Story of Vanished Negro Civilizations. 1954; rpt. Baltimore: Black Classic Press, 1986: 25-36.
Jones, Edward L. "Lucius Septimius Severus (145-211 A.D.) The Black Emperor of the World (193-211 A.D.)." Chapter in Profiles in African Heritage. Black Studies Series (In Classical History). Seattle: University of Washington, 1972: 129-50.
Jones, Edward L. Review of Septimius Severus: The African Emperor, by Anthony R. Birley. In Black Scholar 7, No. 8 (1976): 55-56.
Jones, Edward L. The Black Diaspora: Colonization of Colored People. Seattle: Edward L. Jones, 1989.
McCann, Ann Marguerite. The Portraits of Septimius Severus. Rome: American Academy of Rome, 1968.
Person-Lynn, Kwaku. "Septimius Severus--Emperor of the Roman Empire." Los Angeles Sentinel, 1 Jan 1991: A-8.
Platnauer, M. The Life and Reign of the Emperor Lucius Septimius Severus. London: Oxford Press, 1918.
Raven, Susan. "The First African Emperor." Chapter in Rome in Africa. 3d edition. London: Routledge, 1993: 132-43.
Tuck, Jim. "Marcus Opellius Macrinus: Rome's Negro Emperor." Negro Digest (Feb 1965): 22-28.
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