UMass Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press

Scholars Who Challenged Racism in the Twentieth Century

Edited by Benjamin P. Bowser and Louis Kushnick,
with Paul Grant

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction: Moving the Race Mountain, p. 1

1. A World Libertarian: John Glover Jackson, p. 20

2. Portrait of a Liberation Scholar: John Henrik Clarke, p. 27

3. A Lifetime of Inquiry: Frank Snowden, Jr. p. 41

4. Writing about African Americans in American History: The Career of John Hope Franklin,
p. 63

5. Studies of the African Diaspora: The Work and Reflections of St. Clair Drake, p. 86

6. Blending Scholarship with Public Service: Robert C. Weaver, p. 111

7. Pursuing Fieldwork in African American Communities: Some Personal Reflections of Hylan Lewis, p. 123

8. An Architect of Social Change: Kenneth B. Clark, p. 147

9. Personal Reflections on W. E. B. Du Bois: The Person, Scholar, and Activist, p. 158

10. Vindication in Speaking Truth to Power: Herbert Aptheker, p. 193

11. Catching History on the Wing: A. Sivanandan as Activist, Teacher, and Rebel, p. 227

Conclusion: Of Jim Crow Old and New, p. 243