A Clashing of the Soul: John Hope and the Dilemma of African American Leadership and Black Higher Education in the Early Twentieth Century - Hardcover

Davis, Leroy

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0820319872 ISBN 13: 9780820319872

Publisher: University of Georgia Press, 1998

Synopsis

Hope (1868-1936) was the first African-American president of Morehouse College and Atlanta University, and after the Civil War made a lifelong commitment to black rights. This study examines the conflict inherent in Hope's attempt to balance his joint roles as college president and national leader.

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Review:

The definitive account of Hope's life . . . As well as analyzing the era's educational and racial politics, Davis paints a rounded and convincing portrait of John Hope as a man, a husband, and a father. . . . This fine study convincingly demonstrates that John Hope was one of the most important southern black leaders between Booker T. Washington and Martin Luther King Jr.

--Journal of American History

A deeply researched, sensitive, and balanced account of the extraordinary career of an individual whose life was spent in combating the malignant consequences of racism. It is a first-class piece of historical scholarship.

--Willard B. Gatewood "author of Black Americans and the White Man's Burden, 1898-1903 "

About the Author:

LEROY DAVIS is a professor of history at Emory University. He is the coeditor of The African Experience in Community Development: The Continuing Struggle in Africa and the Americas. He lives in Atlanta.

About this edition

• Publisher: University of Georgia Press
• Publication date: 1998
• ISBN 10: 0820319872
• ISBN 13: 9780820319872
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 480