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Informationen zum Autor NANCY E WILLIAMS owns and operates The Laurus Company, Inc. (TLC), a publishing company specializing in Christian-specific works, children's books, and other works not conflicting with Christian principles and values. She is an ordained minister, businesswoman, graphic designer, and long-time book editor whose career spans over four decades. Klappentext It probes the movement's connections with late 19th-century racial thought, Northern philanthropy, black education, state politics, the Du Bois-Washington controversy, the decline of lynching, the growth of the social sciences, and New Deal campaigns for social justice. "Important and well documented. Ellis does a very good job of situating the work in an important debate over how to assess the historical contribution and value of Southern liberalism... The writing is polished and clear. A book on Thomas Woofter is certainly welcome, indeed, needed." - Ben Keppel, University of Oklahoma Zusammenfassung Examines the movement and the tenacity of a man who epitomized its spirit and shortcomings. Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgments Abbreviations Introduction 1. Jack Woofter-The Education of a Southern Liberal 2. Thomas Jesse Jones and Negro Education 3. Migration and War 4. Will Alexander and the Commission on Interracial Cooperation 5. Dorsey, Dyer, and Lynching 6. The Limits of Interracial Cooperation 7. Northern Money and Race Studies 8. Howard Odum and the Institute for Research in Social Science Conclusion Notes Bibliography Index
