Scholar and the Struggle
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African American Historians
African American History
African American Intellectuals
African Decolonization
Anticommunism
Association for the Study of African American Life and History
Atlanta University Center
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Civil Rights Movement
Cold War
Dillard University
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Harvard University
Horace Mann Bond
Journal of Negro Education
Jr.
Kwame Nkrumah
Lawrence D.
Leon Sullivan
Martin Luther King
McCarthyism
Nnamdi Azikiwe
Opportunities Industrialization Centers
Pan-Africanism
Phi Beta Sigma
Phylon
Red Scare
Reddick
Schomburg Collection of the New York Public Library
Southern Christian Leadership Conference
St. Clair Drake
Temple University Fisk University
The Crisis
University of Chicago
US Race Relations
W. E. B. Du Bois
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- ISBN 9781469660950
- Weight: 630g
- Dimensions: 155 x 233mm
- Publication Date: 18 Dec 2020
- Publisher: The University of North Carolina Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Hardback
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Lawrence Reddick (1910-1995) was among the most notable African American intellectuals of his generation. The second curator of the Schomburg Library and a University of Chicago PhD, Reddick helped spearhead Carter Woodson's black history movement in the 1930s, guide the Double Victory campaign during World War II, lead the Southern Christian Leadership Conference during the Cold War, mentor Martin Luther King Jr. throughout his entire public life, direct the Opportunities Industrialization Center Institute during the 1960s, and forcefully confront institutional racism within academia during the Black Power era. A lifelong Pan-Africanist, Reddick also fought for decolonization and black self-determination alongside Kwame Nkrumah, Nnamdi Azikiwe, Leopold Senghor, and W. E. B. Du Bois. Beyond participating in such struggles, Reddick documented and interpreted them for black and white publics alike.
In The Scholar and the Struggle, David A. Varel tells Reddick's compelling story. His biography reveals the many essential but underappreciated roles played by intellectuals in the black freedom struggle and connects the past to the present in powerful, unforgettable ways.
In The Scholar and the Struggle, David A. Varel tells Reddick's compelling story. His biography reveals the many essential but underappreciated roles played by intellectuals in the black freedom struggle and connects the past to the present in powerful, unforgettable ways.
David A. Varel is an affiliate faculty member at Metropolitan State University - Denver, and author of The Lost Black Scholar: Resurrecting Allison Davis in American Social Thought.
