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Black leaders of the twentieth century  Cover Image Book Book

Black leaders of the twentieth century / edited by John Hope Franklin and August Meier.

Franklin, John Hope, 1915- (Added Author). Meier, August, 1923- (Added Author).

Record details

  • ISBN: 0252008707
  • ISBN: 0252009398 (pbk.)
  • Physical Description: xi, 372 p. : ports. ; 24 cm.
  • Publisher: Urbana : University of Illinois Press, c1982.

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:
Includes bibliographies and index.
Formatted Contents Note:
Booker T. Washington and the politics of accommodation / Louis R. Harlan -- T. Thomas Fortune : militant editor in the age of accommodation / Emma Lou Thornbrough -- Lonely warrior : Ida B. Wells-Barnett and the struggle for Black leadership / Thomas C. Holt -- W.E.B. DuBois : protagonist of the Afro-American protest / Elliott Rudwick -- James Weldon Johnson and the development of the NAACP / Eugene Levy -- Marcus Garvey and the politics of revitalization / Lawrence W. Levine -- A. Philip Randolph : labor leader at large / Benjamin Quarles -- Charles Clinton Spaulding : middle-class leadership in the age of segregation / Walter Weare -- Mary McLeod Bethune and the National Youth Administration : a case study of power relationships in the Black cabinet of Franklin D. Roosevelt / B. Joyce Ross -- Charles Hamilton Houston : social engineer for civil rights / Genna Rae McNeil -- Mabel K. Staupers and the integration of Black nurses into the armed forces / Darlene Clark Hines -- Adam Clayton Powell, Jr. : the militant as politician / Martin Kilson -- Martin Luther King, Jr. and the promise of nonviolent populism / David Levering Lewis -- Malcolm X : witness for the prosecution / Peter Goldman -- Whitney M. Young Jr. : committing the power structure to the case of civil rights / Nancy J. Weiss.
Target Audience Note:
Young Adult
Subject: African Americans > Biography.

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  • 4 of 4 copies available at Bibliomation.

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