What the Negro Wants

Rayford W. Logan

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.

Sujets

• Ethnic Studies
• Civil Rights
• Social Science
• Essays
• POLITICAL SCIENCE
• Sociologie, société et politique
• W E B DuBois
• América
• Sterling Allen Brown
• African American studies
• A. Philip Randolph
• Segregation
• Civil and political rights
• African American
• Mary McLeod Bethune
• American
• Roy Wilkins
• Sterling Brown
• Langston Hughes
• Black
• Discrimination
• Race

Informations

• Publié par: University of Notre Dame Press
• Date de parution: 15 juillet 2020
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9780268160838
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 8 Mo

Extrait

Copyright ©1944

Copyright ©1969

by the University of North Carolina Press

by Agathon Press

Copyright ©2001by University of Notre Dame Notre Dame, Indiana46556 All Rights Reserved www.undpress.nd.edu

Published in the United States of America

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data What the Negro wants / edited by Rayford W. Logan. p. cm. — (African American intellectual heritage series) Originally published: Chapel Hill, N.C. : University of North Carolina Press, 1944. With new introd. and bibliographic update by Kenneth Robert Janken, and pref. written by Logan for1969reprint. Includes bibliographical references. isbn 0-268-01966-5(alk. paper) — isbn 13: 978-0-268-01964-8(pbk.: alk. paper)— isbn 10: 0-268-01964-9(pbk.: alk. paper) 1. Afro-Americans—Civil rights.2. Afro-Americans—Social conditions— To1964. 3I. Logan, Rayford. United States—Race relations. Whittingham,1897– II. Series.

eI85.61.w57 2001 305∙.96’073—dc21

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