The Betrayal Of The Negro From Rutherford B. Hayes To Woodrow Wilson

by Logan, Rayford W.

• ISBN13: 9780306807589
• ISBN10: 0306807580
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1997-03-22
• Publisher: Grand Central Publishing

Summary

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 asThe Negro in American Life and Thought: The Nadir, 18771901and 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.

Author Biography

Rayford W. Logan (1897-1982) chaired the Department of History at Howard University.

Table of Contents

Introduction
Preface
Preface to the Second Edition
The Problem	p. 3
The "Let Alone" Policy of Hayes	p. 12
Dead Center Under Cleveland	p. 37
The Reopening Under Harrison	p. 52
The Nadir Under McKinley	p. 79
The Supreme Court and the Negro	p. 97
The Economic Roots of Second-Class Citizenship: Agriculture	p. 117
The Economic Roots of Second-Class Citizenship: Organized Labor	p. 140
Introduction: The Mind of the North, 1877-1901	p. 159
National Issues in the Northern Press, 1877-1890	p. 170
National Issues in the Northern Press, 1890-1901	p. 191
The "Color Line" in the "New North," 1877-1901	p. 215
The Negro as Portrayed in the Leading Literary Magazines	p. 239
The Atlanta Compromise	p. 275
The Roots of Recovery	p. 314
"A Low, Rugged Plateau"	p. 341
"A Shore, Dimly Seen"	p. 359
The Negro as Portrayed in Representative Northern Magazines and Newspapers	p. 371
Conclusion	p. 393
Notes	p. 397
Index	p. 433
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