What the Negro Wants

In 1944, distinguished Howard University historian Rayford W. Logan gathered together essays on the subject "What the Negro Wants" written by fifteen prominent African American intellectuals, including Langston Hughes, Sterling Brown, Mary McLeod Bethune, A. Philip Randolph, W. E. B. Du Bois, and Roy Wilkins. The outspoken views expressed in the essays shocked even white liberals by their unanimous call for an end to segregation. The publication of What the Negro Wants thus helped set the agenda for the Civil Rights Movement to come.
This edition includes Rayford Logan's introduction to the 1969 reprint, a new introduction by Kenneth Janken, and an updated bibliography.

About the author

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.

Summary

Historian Rayford Logan was part of a circle of intellectuals at Howard University in the 1930s-1950s. In 1944, he gathered together essays by 15 prominent black intellectuals. The outspoken views expressed in the essays helped to set the agenda for the civil rights movement.

Product details

• Authors: Rayford W. Logan
• Assisted by: Rayford W. Logan (Editor), Rayford Whittingham Logan (Editor)
• Publisher: University Of Notre Dame Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 20.05.2001
• EAN: 9780268019648
• ISBN: 978-0-268-01964-8
• No. of pages: 416
• Dimensions: 140 mm x 216 mm x 24 mm
• Weight: 584 g
• Series: African American Intellectual; The African-American Intellectual Heritage S.; The African-American Intellectual Heritage; The African-American Intellectual Heritage; African American Intellectual Heritage
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Education > Social education, social work; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories