Following the Color Line
Gelesen von Roger Melin
Ray Stannard Baker
(4,833 Sterne; 6 Bewertungen)
Subtitled "An Account of Negro Citizenship in the American Democracy", we are presented an in-depth and essentially non-opinionated open view of race relations as they existed in the U.S. in 1908, more than 40 years following the end of the Civil War.
The book is in three parts: The Negro in the South; The Negro in the North; and the Negro in the Nation. We are presented both rural and urban points of view, struggles for survival, varying district relationships, the effect of lynching, power struggles, and political repercussions, among many other topics. - Summary by Roger Melin (14 hr 40 min)
Chapters
Following the Colour Line in the South: A superficial View of Conditions - part…
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Following the Colour Line in the South: A superficial View of Conditions - part…
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An Ostracised Race in Ferment: The Conflict of Negro Parties and Negro Leaders …
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An Ostracised Race in Ferment: The Conflict of Negro Parties and Negro Leaders …
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crs
(5 Sterne)
One of the best things I have ever read about the racial issues in America. Should be required reading for HS graduation. Though a lot of the language and concepts is dated, it will give you a sense of how people thought about blacks in the early 1900s. His opinion that if America doesn’t allow blacks to make their way without hindrance, it would suffer the consequences is spot on. Here we are 115 years after this was published still focused on race and more particularly reaping what we have sown among blacks and whites - 100s of millions of people with superior mindset and 40 million people with inferior mindset, and all of the negative consequences of that.