Thomas Aiello

The Battle for the Souls of Black Folk (eBook, ePUB)

W.E.B. Du Bois, Booker T. Washington, and the Debate That Shaped the Course of Civil Rights

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

In the 20 years between 1895 and 1915, two key leaders-Booker T. Washington and W.E.B. Du Bois-shaped the struggle for African American rights. This book examines the impact of their fierce debate on America's response to Jim Crow and positions on civil rights throughout the 20th century-and evaluates the legacies of these two individuals even today. The debate between W.E.B. Du Bois and Booker T. Washington on how to further social and economic progress for African Americans lasted 20 years, from 1895 to Washington's death in 1915. Their ongoing conversation evolved over time, becoming fiercer and more personal as the years progressed. But despite its complexities and steadily accumulating bitterness, it was still, at its heart, a conversation-an impassioned contest at the turn of the century to capture the souls of black folk. This book focuses on the conversation between Washington and Du Bois in order to fully examine its contours. It serves as both a document reader and an authored text that enables readers to perceive how the back and forth between these two individuals produced a cacophony of ideas that made it anything but a bipolar debate, even though their expressed differences would ultimately shape the two dominant strains of activist strategy. The numerous chapters on specific topics and historical events follow a preface that presents an overview of both the conflict and its historiographical treatment; evaluates the legacies of both Washington and Du Bois, emphasizing the trajectories of their theories beyond 1915; and provides an explanation of the unique structure of the work.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury Publishing Inc
• Seitenzahl: 608
• Altersempfehlung: ab 7 Jahre
• Erscheinungstermin: 23. Mai 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9798216051688
• Artikelnr.: 68165175

Autorenporträt

Thomas Aiello is associate professor of history and African American studies at Valdosta State University.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface Introduction 1 Before the Cotton States 2 The Death of Frederick
Douglass 3 The Job Hunt 4 The First Fissure 5 The Washington School
District 6 The National Negro Business League 7 Up From Slavery 8 The First
Attempt at a Summit 9 The Boston Riot 10 The New York Summit 11 The
Committee of Twelve 12 The Machine 13 Niagara 14 The Spies and the Radicals
15 NAACP 16 The Milholland and Britain Letters 17 Presidential Politics 18
Irreconcilable Differences 19 The Death of Washington 20 Du Bois Shapes the
Legacy Bibliography Index