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Black leaders of the twentieth century / edited by John Hope Franklin and August Meier. - xi, 372 pages : portraits ; 24 cm - Blacks in the new world . - Blacks in the New World. .

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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

Biographical studies of fifteen twentieth-century black leaders.

ISBN: 0252008707 9780252008702 0252009398 9780252009396

LCCN: 81011454

Nat. Bib. No.: GB8535644 bnb

Subjects--Corporate Names:
Umschulungswerkst atten f ur Siedler und Auswanderer Bitterfeld

Subjects--Topical Terms:
African Americans--Biography.
Noirs am ericains--Biographies.
African Americans.
Politiker
Schwarze
Biografie
Noirs am ericains--Biographies--20e si ecle.
D efenseurs des droits de l'homme--Biographies--20e si ecle.
Blacks--Biography.

Subjects--Geographic Terms:
Schwarze.
USA.

Subjects--Index Terms: United States African Americans Civil rights movements Leaders, 1900-1984

Index Terms--Genre/Form:
Biographies.
Biographies.

LC Class. No.: E185.96 / .B536 1982

Dewey Class. No.: 920/.009296073 B