A Brief and Tentative Analysis of Negro Leadership / Ralph J. Bunche ; edited and introduced by Jonathan Scott Holloway.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Bunche, Ralph J. (Ralph Johnson), 1904-1971, author.

Contributor:

Holloway, Jonathan Scott, editor.

Series:

ACLS Humanities E-Book

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

African American leadership.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xiii, 229 pages) : illustrations

Place of Publication:

New York : NYU Press, 2005.

Summary:

A world-renowned scholar and statesman, Dr. Ralph J. Bunche (1903-1971) began his career as an educator and a political scientist, and later joined the United Nations, serving as Undersecretary General for seventeen of his twenty-five years with that body. This African American mediator was the first person of color anywhere in the world to be awarded the Nobel Prize for Peace. In the mid-1930s, Bunche played a key role in organizing the National Negro Congress, a popular front-styled group dedicated to progressive politics and labor and civil rights reform. A Brief and Tentative Analysis of Negro Leadership provides key insight into black leadership at the dawn of the modern civil rights movement. Originally prepared for the Carnegie Foundation study, An American Dilemma: The Negro Problem and Modern Democracy, Bunche's research on the topic was completed in 1940. This never-before-published work now includes an extended scholarly introduction as well as contextual comments throughout by Jonathan Scott Holloway. Despite the fact that Malcolm X called Bunche a "black man who didn't know his history, " Bunche never wavered from his faith that integrationist politics paved the way for racial progress. This new volume forces a reconsideration of Bunche's legacy as a reformer and the historical meaning of his early involvement in the civil rights movement.

Contents:

Introduction: Negro leadership

A general survey of Negro leadership

Illustrations of Negro leadership types

Life histories analysis

Leadership schedules

Conclusion.

Notes:

Title from title page screen (viewed on July 13, 2007).

"This electronic book contains the following additional features not available in the print version: Bibliography of secondary sources. Links to full text of two historical memoranda."--Copyright and Permissions.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780814736845

081473684X

Publisher Number:

2027/heb90027 hdl