| What the Negro Wants Contributor(s): Logan, Rayford W. (Author), Janken, Kenneth Robert (Introduction by) |
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ISBN: 0268019665 ISBN-13: 9780268019662 Publisher: University of Notre Dame Press OUR PRICE: $123.75 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: May 2001 Annotation: Historian Rayford Logan was part of a circle of intellectuals at Howard University in the 1930s-1950s that included E. Franklin Frazier, Charles Drew, Sterling Brown, and Alain Locke. In 1944, Logan gathered together essays by fifteen prominent black intellectuals -- Langston Hughes, Sterling Brown, Mary McLeod Bethune, A. Philip Randolph, W. E. B. Du Bois and Roy Wilkins among them. The outspoken views expressed in the essays that make up What the Negro Wants helped to set the agenda for the Civil Rights Movement. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Social Science | Ethnic Studies - African American Studies - Political Science | Civil Rights - Political Science | American Government - General |
| Dewey: 305.896 |
| LCCN: 00049101 |
| Series: African American Intellectual Heritage |
| Physical Information: 1.28" H x 5.76" W x 8.2" (1.49 lbs) 416 pages |
| Themes: - Ethnic Orientation - African American |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Published in 1944, What the Negro Wants was a direct and emphatic call for the end of segregation and racial discrimination that set the agenda for the civil rights movement to come. With essays by fourteen prominent African American intellectuals, including Langston Hughes, Sterling Brown, Mary McLeod Bethune, A. Philip Randolph, W. E. B. Du Bois, and Roy Wilkins, What the Negro Wants explores the policies and practices that could be employed to achieve equal rights and opportunities for Black Americans, rejecting calls to reform the old system of segregation and instead arguing for the construction of a new system of equality. Stirring intense controversy at the time of publication, the book serves as a unique window into the history of the civil rights movement and offers startling comparisons to today's continuing fight against racism and inequality. Originally gathered together by distinguished Howard University historian Rayford W. Logan in 1944, our 2001 edition of the book includes Rayford Logan's introduction to the 1969 reprint, a new introduction by Kenneth Janken, and an updated bibliography. |
Contributor Bio(s): Logan, Rayford W.: - Rayford W. Logan (1897-1982) was professor emeritus of history at Howard University. Logan was an African-American historian and Pan-African activist who was best known for his study of post-Reconstruction America. In the late 1940s, he was a chief advisor to the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) on international affairs.Janken, Kenneth Robert: - Kenneth Robert Janken is Associate Professor of Afro-American Studies at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and author of Rayford W. Logan and the Dilemma of the African-American Intellectual. |