With Faith in God and Heart and Mind : A History of Omega Psi Phi Fraternity / Maurice J. Hobson [and three others].

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hobson, Maurice J., author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

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.

Omega Psi Phi Fraternity--History.

Omega Psi Phi Fraternity.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (383 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Chapel Hill, North Carolina : University of North Carolina Press, [2025]

Summary:

When Edgar A. Love, Oscar J. Cooper, Frank Coleman, and Ernest Everett Just founded the historically Black fraternity Omega Psi Phi on November 17, 1911, at Howard University, they could not have known how great of an impact their organization would have on American life. Over the 110 years that followed, its members led colleges and universities; served in prominent military roles; made innumerable contributions to education, civic society, science, and medicine; and at least one campaigned for the US presidency. This book offers a comprehensive, authoritative history of the fraternity, emphasizing its vital role through multiple eras 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, Roy Wilkins, James L. Farmer Jr., Benjamin Elijah Mays, James Clyburn, Jesse Jackson, and Benjamin Crump, and the collective efforts of the fraternity's leadership to encourage its general membership to contribute to the struggle in concrete ways over the years. The result is a book that uniquely connects the 1910s with the present, showing the ongoing power of a Black fraternal organization to channel its members toward social reform.

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:

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Includes index.

ISBN:

9798890863591

9781469673202

1469673207

9781469673219

1469673215