Charles S. Johnson: Leadership beyond the Veil in the Age of Jim CrowThe milestones for blacks in twentieth-century America the Harlem Renaissance, the struggle for equal education, and the civil rights movement would have been inconceivable without the contributions of one important but often overlooked figure, Charles S. Johnson (1893 1956). This compelling biography demonstrates the scope of his achievements, situates him among other black intellectuals of his time, and casts new light on a pivotal era in the struggle for black equality in America. An impresario of Harlem Renaissance culture, an eminent Chicago-trained sociologist, a pioneering race relations leader, and an educator of the generation that freed itself from legalized segregation, Johnson was a visionary who linked the everyday struggles of blacks with the larger intellectual and political currents of the day. His distinguished career included twenty-eight years at Fisk University, where he established the famed Race Relations Institute and became Fisk s first black president. |
Contents
From Bristol to Nashville | 1 |
From Riot to Renaissance | 11 |
The Mentor Robert E Park | 31 |
The ParkJohnson Model | 49 |
The Johnson Model | 61 |
Park to Johnson to Myrdal | 71 |
Internationalism Between the World Wars | 79 |
The Department of Social Sciences | 93 |
The Race Relations Institutes Confronting de jure Segregation | 183 |
Internationalism World War II and the Cold War | 201 |
Conflict over Fisk Leadership | 213 |
The Basic College Nurturing Scholars and Leaders | 227 |
The Red Scare Hits Home | 237 |
Solomon on the Cumberland | 249 |
Epilogue | 257 |
Appendix I Interviews Conducted in Preparation of the Text | 259 |
Beyond the Classroom Service Intellectual | 109 |
The Publications | 125 |
The Best of Booker T Washington | 141 |
The Rest of Booker T Washington | 155 |
The Department of Race Relations Confronting de facto Segregation | 169 |
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