Transformation of the African American Intelligentsia, 1880-2012

by Martin Kilson

Book Overview

After Reconstruction, African Americans found themselves free, yet largely excluded from politics, higher education, and the professions. Drawing on his professional research into political leadership and intellectual development in African American society, as well as his personal roots in the social-gospel teachings of black churches and at Lincoln University (PA), the political scientist Martin Kilson explores how a modern African American intelligentsia...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0674283546
• ISBN13: 9780674283541
• Release Date: June 2014
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Length: 248 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.4" x 9.6"