Without Regard to Race: The Other Martin Robison Delany

by Tunde Adeleke

Book Overview

Before Marcus Garvey and W. E. B. Du Bois lifted the banner for black liberation and independence, Martin Robison Delany (1812-1885) was at the forefront. He was the first black person appointed as a combat major in the Union army during the Civil War. He was a pan-Africanist and a crusader for black freedom and equality in the nineteenth century. For the past three decades, however, this precursor has been regarded only as a militant black nationalist...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1604732504
• ISBN13: 9781604732504
• Release Date: April 2009
• Publisher: University Press of Mississippi
• Length: 274 Pages
• Weight: 1.01 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"