In black and white : an interpretation of the South / by Lily Hardy Hammond ; edited, with an introduction, by Elna C. Green.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hammond, L. H. (Lily Hardy), 1859-1925.

Contributor:

Green, Elna C.

Series:

Publications of the Southern Texts Society.

The publications of the Southern Texts Society

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

African Americans--History--1877-1964.

African Americans.

African Americans--Southern States--Social conditions--20th century.

Social movements--Southern States--History--20th century.

Social movements.

Women, White--Political activity--Southern States--History--20th century.

Women, White.

Social gospel--Southern States--History--20th century.

Social gospel.

Liberalism--Southern States--History--20th century.

Liberalism.

Progressivism (United States politics)--History--20th century.

Progressivism (United States politics).

Southern States--Social conditions--1865-1945.

Southern States.

Southern States--Race relations--History--20th century.

United States--Race relations--History--20th century.

United States.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (220 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Athens : University of Georgia Press, c2008.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

"Our problem is not racial, but human and economic.... We hold the Negro racially responsible for conditions common to all races on his economic plane." The writings of reformer Lily Hardy Hammond (1859-1925) are filled with such forthright criticisms of southern white attitudes toward African Americans-enough so that her stature as a southern progressive thinker would seem assured. Yet Hammond, who once stood at the intellectual center of the southern women's social gospel movement and was in her time the South's most prolific female writer on the "race question," has been marginalized. This volume reprints In Black and White, the most important of Hammond's ten books, along with a sampling of the dozens of articles she published. Elna C. Green's biographical introduction tells of Hammond's marriage to a prominent Methodist minister and educator. It also traces Hammond's career within the context of prevailing gender and racial attitudes in the Jim Crow South. Hammond, who had roots in Methodist home mission work, was also active in such secular and ecumenical organizations as the Southern Sociological Congress, the Commission on Interracial Cooperation, and the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. Hammond worked alongside blacks to promote education, improve living conditions, and stop lynching. As a suffragist and temperance advocate, she urged the leaders of those largely white women's movements to partner with African Americans. Historians of religion, social science, and race relations will welcome the reintroduction of this remarkable but virtually forgotten figure.

Contents:

Intro

Contents

Introduction to This Edition

List of Lily Hardy Hammond's Publications

IN BLACK AND WHITE: AN INTERPRETATION OF THE SOUTH

Introduction [to the First Edition]

I. In Terms of Humanity

II. The Basis of Adjustment

III. Houses and Homes

IV. An Ounce of Prevention

V. Human Wreckage

VI. Service and Coöperation

VII. Those Who Come After Us

VIII. The Great Adventure

SELECTIONS FROM LILY HAMMOND'S OTHER PUBLICATIONS

"Woman's Work for Woman" (1895)

"A Southern View of the Negro" (1903)

"A Black-and-White Christmas" (1915)

"Southern Women and Racial Adjustment" (1917)

Index

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Notes:

Originally published: New York : Fleming H. Revell Co., c1914.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9786612726200

9781282726208

128272620X

9780820337005

0820337005

OCLC:

613678289