. . . a well-researched and thoughtful inquiry into the circumstances and social forces producing one of the most violent of twentieth-century American race riots." -- American Historical Review "His work fills a serious gap in the history of racial violence in the United States. Never before analyzed by sociologists in the way that the Chicago and Detroit riots were, the East St. Louis riot outranked both as measured by the number of deaths." -- American Journal of Sociology
Beginning with the slave trade, the book interprets black ideologies and protest movements throughout American history, particularly in the 20th century.
This book is a volume in the Penn Press Anniversary Collection. To mark its 125th anniversary in 2015, the University of Pennsylvania Press rereleased more than 1,100 titles from Penn Press's distinguished backlist from 1899-1999 that had fallen out of print. Spanning an entire century, the Anniversary Collection offers peer-reviewed scholarship in a wide range of subject areas.
The Reconstruction Period following the Civil War bred a countermovement in the South. An accommodation between the races was established which restored the caste status of Negroes. By law and custom the colored people were to remain an economically marginal group, politically and socially powerless, and segregated from the whites. Outside of the South, custom also demanded that Negroes should be treated as a separate and inferior people. Such conditions motivated Negroes to seek solutions to the race problem and various plans for salvation were promulgated. Three of the most important "planners" were Booker T. Washington, Marcus Garvey, and W.E.B. Du Bois. While several master's theses have been written about Du Bois as litterateur, as editor, and as "social theorist," until 1959 there was no published volume devoted exclusively to an examination and evaluation of his leadership. This omission is somewhat surprising when it is considered that Du Bois is regarded as an important figure in the literature of race relations. Impressive claims have been made about his contributions. Gunnar Myrdal and Arnold M. Rose concluded that Du Bois "set the tone" of the N.A.A.C.P.
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