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Rayford Whittingham Logan (Author),
Eric Foner (Introduction by)
Between the end of Reconstruction in 1877 and the end of World War I in 1918, African Americans experienced their nadir. The Betrayal of the Negro (originally published as The Negro in American Life and Thought: The Nadir, 1877-1901 and subsequently expanded) is the only full-scale account to document with encyclopedic research this neglected phase in American history. The author examines every aspect of our country’s post-Reconstruction retreat from equality: the economic factors, the Supreme Court decisions, Booker T. Washington and his “Era of Compromise,” and, in a unique and disturbing survey, the racist caricatures that dominated the most liberal newspapers and magazines of the day. Dispassionate and insightful, Logan unfolds a narrative of national betrayal as harrowing as it is heartbreaking.
Author Biography
A Harvard graduate, historian, author, and activist,
Rayford W. Logan (1897-1982) chaired the Department of History at Howard University, edited the Journal of Negro History, and was one of the pioneering members of the civil rights movement.
Number of Pages: 480Dimensions: 1.23 x 8 x 5.12 INPublication Date: January 01, 2001
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