A Clashing of the Soul: John Hope and the Dilemma of African American Leadership and Black Higher Education in the Early Twentieth Century
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| Rating | : | 4.29 (808 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0820319872 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 488 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-01-31 |
| Language | : | English |
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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. (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. Washington and Martin
A Customer said A Great Book by a Brilliant Man. Leroy Davis is a briliant scholar and an excellent teacher. His depth of knowledge on John Hope is amazing, and the real man comes through in this great book.-Adam Rothwell
Born of a mixed-race union in Augusta, Georgia, shortly after the Civil War, Hope had a lifelong commitment to black public and private education, adequate housing and health care, job opportunities, and civil rights that never wavered. The story of Hope's life illuminates many complexities that vexed African American leaders in a free but segregated society.. Washington was to black industrial education.Leroy Davis examines the conflict inherent in Hope's attempt to balance his joint roles as college president and national leader. Along with his good friend W. Hope became to black college education what Booker T. B. John Hope (1868-1936), the first African American president of Morehouse College
. He is the coeditor of "The African Experience in Community Development: The Continuing Struggle in Africa and the Americas." He lives in Atlanta. Leroy Davis is a professor of history at Emory University