Black Leaders of the Twentieth Century

John Hope Franklin has been at the University of Chicago since 1964 and in 1969 was names John Matthews Manly Distinguished Service Professor of History. In 1980 he was appointed a Senior Mellon Fellow at the National Humanities Center. His books include: From Slavery to Freedom: A History of Negro Americans, Southern Odyssey: Travelers in the Antebellum North, and ¿Racial Equality in America.August Meier is University Professor of History at Kent State University and editor of the series Blacks in the New World published by the University of Illinois Press. He is the author of Negro Thought in America, 1880-1915 and co-author, with Elliott Rudwick, of several books including From Plantation to Ghetto
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Summary

Recounts the accomplishments of fifteen Black American men and women, including Martin Luther King, Mary McLeod Bethune, Adam Clayton Powell, and Booker T. Washington.

Product details

• Assisted by: John Hope Franklin (Editor), August Meier (Editor)
• Publisher: University Of Illinois Press
• Content: Book
• Product form: Paperback / Softback
• Publication date: 01.06.1982
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > History; Non-fiction book > History > Biographies, autobiographies
• EAN: 9780252009396
• ISBN: 978-0-252-00939-6
• Pages: 400
• Dimensions (packing): 15.2 x 22.9 x 2.3 cm
• Weight (packing): 513 g
• Series: Blacks in the New World; Blacks in the New World