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With faith in God and heart and mind : a history of Omega Psi Phi Fraternity / Maurice J. Hobson, Eddie R. Cole, Jim C. Harper, Derrick P. Alridge.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Hobson, Maurice J., author.
- Cole, Eddie Rice, II, author.
- Harper, Jim C., author.
- Alridge, Derrick P., author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Omega Psi Phi Fraternity--History.
- Omega Psi Phi Fraternity.
- African American Greek letter societies.
- African American college students--Political activity.
- African American college students.
- Civil rights movements--United States--History--20th century.
- Civil rights movements.
- United States.
- Genre:
- History
- Physical Description:
- 373 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, 2025.
- Summary:
- "This book offers a comprehensive and authoritative history of the fraternity, emphasizing its vital role across multiple phases of the Black freedom struggle. The authors address both the individual work of its membership, which has included such figures as Carter G. Woodson, Bayard Rustin, Benjamin Mays, Jim Clyburn, Jesse Jackson, and Benjamin Crump, and the collective efforts of the fraternity's leadership to encourage rank and file members to contribute to the struggle in concrete ways over the years"-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- We will build a fraternity: intellectual foundations, 1909-1920
- An unusual emphasis on scholarship: the success, and challenge, of expanding Black education opportunity, 1920-1929
- Through days of joy or years of pain: Omega Psi Phi Fraternity responds during the Great Depression and World War II, 1930-1945
- I am my brothers' and sisters' keeper: Omega men and the modern civil rights movement, 1945-1964
- Holding aloft vistas of purple and gold: Omega Psi Phi Fraternity from the modern civil rights movement through the Reagan years
- The challenges of brotherhood: critical crossroads in Omega Psi Phi Fraternity.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781469673196
- 1469673193
- OCLC:
- 1351626041
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