Between the end of Reconstruction in 1877 and the end of World War I in 1918, African Americans experienced their nadir. The Betrayal of the Negro (originally published as The Negro in American Life and Thought: The Nadir, 1877–1901 and subsequently expanded) is the only full-scale account to document with encyclopedic research this neglected phase in American history. The author examines every aspect of our country's post-Reconstruction retreat from equality: the economic factors, the Supreme Court decisions, Booker T. Washington and his "Era of Compromise," and, in a unique and disturbing survey, the racist caricatures that dominated the most liberal newspapers and magazines of the day. Dispassionate and insightful, Logan unfolds a narrative of national betrayal as harrowing as it is heartbreaking.
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First issued in 1954, this seminal work of black history was one of the first books to reinterpret the Reconstruction and to show how the freedmen's hopes were cruelly thwarted by cynical politicians. It documents "in devastating detail the political, economic, and cultural story of the retreat from equality." And, as prize-winning historian Eric Foner notes in his introduction, The Betrayal of the Negro provided "an overall framework that still helps to guide interpretations of the era." Also worth noting is the book's middle section, in which Rayford Logan examines the images of blacks that appeared in popular media such as newspapers and magazines in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
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Painfully enlightening.... No reader can miss the significance of this brilliant and long-needed reevaluation.
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THE problem of determining the place that Negroes should occupy in American life was the most difficult of the "racial" problems that confronted the American government and people after the Civil War. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
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- Black Folk: Then and Now; An Essay in the History and Sociology of the Negro Race. by William Edward Burghardt, Du Bois on 5 pages
- Black Reconstruction: An Essay Toward a History of the Part Which Black Folk Played in the Attempt to Reconstruct Democracy in America, 1860 (The African-American Intellectual Heritage) by W. E. B. Du Bois on 5 pages
- Frederick Douglass by Booker T. Washington on page 232, page 346, and Back Matter
- Uncle Remus: His Songs and His Sayings (Penguin Classics) by Joel Chandler Harris on page 162, page 254, and Back Matter
- Dusk of Dawn: An Essay Toward an Autobiography of a Race Concept (Black Classics of Social Science) by W.E.B. Du Bois in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
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