A Clashing of the Soul: John Hope and the Dilemma of African American Leadership and Black Higher Education in the Early Twentieth Century - Rilegato

Davis, Leroy

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ISBN 10: 0820319872 ISBN 13: 9780820319872

Casa editrice: Univ of Georgia Pr, 1998

Riassunto

John Hope (1868-1936), the first African American president of Morehouse College and Atlanta University, was one of the most distinguished in the pantheon of early-twentieth-century black educators. Born of a mixed-race union in Augusta, Georgia, shortly after the Civil War, Hope had a lifelong commitment to black public and private education, adequate housing and health care, job opportunities, and civil rights that never wavered. Hope became to black college education what Booker T. Washington was to black industrial education.

Leroy Davis examines the conflict inherent in Hope's attempt to balance his joint roles as college president and national leader. Along with his good friend W. E. B. Du Bois, Hope was at the forefront of the radical faction of black leaders in the early twentieth century, but he found himself taking more moderate stances in order to obtain philanthropic funds for black higher education. The story of Hope's life illuminates many complexities that vexed African American leaders in a free but segregated society.

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L'autore:

Leroy Davis is a professor of history at Emory University. He is the coeditor of The African Experience in Community Development: The Continuing Struggle in Africa and the Americas. He lives in Atlanta.

Product Description:

Hope (1868-1936) was the first African-American president of Morehouse College and Atlanta University, and after the Civil War made a lifelong commitment to black rights. This study examines the conflict inherent in Hope's attempt to balance his joint roles as college president and national leader.

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• Editore: Univ of Georgia Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 1998
• ISBN 10: 0820319872
• ISBN 13: 9780820319872
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 440