Blacks at Harvard : A Documentary History of African-American Experience At Harvard and Radcliffe / Werner Sollors, Caldwell Titcomb, Thomas A. Underwood, Randall Kennedy.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Sollors, Werner.

Contributor:

Kennedy, Randall, Editor.

Sollors, Werner, Editor.

Titcomb, Caldwell, Editor.

Underwood, Thomas A., Editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Radcliffe College--History--Sources.

Radcliffe College.

Harvard University--History--Sources.

Harvard University.

African Americans--Education (Higher)--Massachusetts--History--Sources.

African Americans.

United States--Race relations--History--Sources.

United States.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (590 p.)

Place of Publication:

1993.

New York, NY : New York University Press, [1993]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The history of blacks at Harvard mirrors, for better or for worse, the history of blacks in the United States. Harvard, too, has been indelibly scarred by slavery, exclusion, segregation, and other forms of racist oppression. At the same time, the nation's oldest university has also, at various times, stimulated, supported, or allowed itself to be influenced by the various reform movements that have dramatically changed the nature of race relations across the nation. The story of blacks at Harvard is thus inspiring but painful, instructive but ambiguous-a paradoxical episode in the most vexing controversy of American life: the "race question." The first and only book on its subject, Blacks at Harvard is distinguished by the rich variety of its sources. Included in this documentary history are scholarly overviews, poems, short stories, speeches, well-known memoirs by the famous, previously unpublished memoirs by the lesser known, newspaper accounts, letters, official papers of the university, and transcripts of debates. Among Harvard's black alumni and alumnae are such illustrious figures as W.E.B. Du Bois, Monroe Trotter, and Alain Locke; Countee Cullen and Sterling Brown both received graduate degrees. The editors have collected here writings as diverse as those of Booker T. Washington, William Hastie, Malcolm X, and Muriel Snowden to convey the complex ways in which Harvard has affected the thinking of African Americans and the ways, in turn, in which African Americans have influenced the traditions of Harvard and Radcliffe. Notable among the contributors are significant figures in African American letters: Phyllis Wheatley, William Melvin Kelley, Marita Bonner, James Alan McPherson and Andrea Lee. Equally prominent in the book are some of the nation's leading historians: Carter Woodson, Rayford Logan, John Hope Franklin, and Nathan I. Huggins. A vital sourcebook, Blacks at Harvard is certain to nourish scholarly inquiry into the social and intellectual history of African Americans at elite national institutions and serves as a telling metaphor of this nation's past.

Contents:

Frontmatter

CONTENTS

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

INTRODUCTION: BLACKS AND THE RACE QUESTION AT HARVARD

THE BLACK PRESENCE AT HARVARD: AN OVERVIEW

PHILLIS WHEATLEY

A FORENSIC DISPUTE ON THE LEGALITY OF ENSLAVING THE AFRICANS, HELD AT THE PUBLIC COMMENCEMENT IN CAMBRIDGE, NEW-ENGLAND (BOSTON, 1773)

MARTIN R. DELANY AND THE HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL

RICHARD T. GREENER: THE FIRST BLACK HARVARD COLLEGE GRADUATE

CLEMENT G. MORGAN

W.E.B. DU BOIS

W. MONROE TROTTER

BOOKER T. WASHINGTON

WILLIAM H. FERRIS

LESLIE PINCKNEY HILL

ALAIN LOCKE

EDWARD SMYTH JONES

EVA B. DYKES

CAROLINE BOND DAY

MARCUS GARVEY

THE HARVARD DORMITORY CRISIS (1921-23)

MARITA O. BONNER

STERLING A. BROWN

COUNTÉE CULLEN

RALPH BUNCHE

WILLIAM H. HASTIE

RAYFORD W. LOGAN

LEADBELLY

JOHN HOPE FRANKLIN

MURIEL SNOWDEN

ELIZABETH FITZGERALD HOWARD

HAROLD R. SCOTT

WILLIAM MELVIN KELLEY

THE AFRICAN AND AFRO-AMERICAN SOCIETY CONTROVERSY

MALCOLM X

JAMES ALAN McPHERSON

THE FOUNDING OF THE AFRO-AMERICAN STUDIES DEPARTMENT

THE 1969 YEARBOOK

ERNEST J. WILSON III

EMORY J. WEST

ANDREA LEE

LEIGH JACKSON

THE GREENBERG-CHAMBERS INCIDENT HARVARD LAW SCHOOL, 1982-83

FARAH GRIFFIN

JUDITH JACKSON

SHANNAH V. BRAXTON

MARTIN KILSON

EILEEN SOUTHERN

NATHAN IRVIN HUGGINS

NOTE ON THE TEXTS

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 23. Jun 2020)

ISBN:

0-8147-8897-1

OCLC:

794327604