The Negro in American civilization /

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Weyl, Nathaniel, 1910-2005 (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Washington : Public Affairs Press, [1960]
Series:Civil rights and social justice.
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Online Access:CONNECT
Table of Contents:
  • pt. 1. From slavery to desegregation. Historic roots of slavery
  • Slavery versus the Enlightenment
  • The Negro and the Constitution
  • Jefferson and the natural aristocracy
  • The free Negroes : American pariahs
  • The Supreme Court and the slave power
  • Abraham Lincoln, reluctant emancipator
  • The wrath of reconstruction
  • From reconstruction to Jim Crow
  • The slow ascent : 1895-1945
  • Economic and cultural revolutions
  • pt. 2. The ethnic issue. The African heritage
  • Ethnic differences in the light of evolution
  • The Negro and civilization
  • The evidence of intelligence tests
  • The Negro and the schools
  • The blackboard jungles
  • Negro criminality
  • Intermarriage and population trends
  • pt. 3. The gathering crisis. The end of school segregation
  • The South beleaguered
  • The road to Little Rock
  • The Negro and the New South
  • Our darkening cities
  • Impending crisis.