Description |
xi, 372 pages : portraits ; 24 cm. |
Series |
Blacks in the new world |
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Blacks in the New World.
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Bibliography |
Includes bibliographies and index. |
Contents |
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. |
Subject |
African Americans -- Biography.
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Indexed Term |
United States Negroes Civil rights movements Leaders, 1900-1984 |
Added Author |
Franklin, John Hope, 1915-2009.
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Meier, August, 1923-2003.
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ISBN |
0252008707 |
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0252009398 paperback |
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