By August Meier and
Elliot Rudwick. Foreword by
David Levering Lewis.
The University of Illinois Press, January 2003, 440 pp., $21.95 paper, ISBN 0-252-07107-7
First published more than a quarter of a century ago by two of the most accomplished historians of the modern African American experience, this diverse collection of essays addresses topics such as Black nationalism, nonviolent action, the changing patterns of interracial violence in the 20th century, and the ways African American leaders have functioned and coped with racism in their quest to ensure the rights of full citizenship for African Americans.
Meier is a professor emeritus of history at Kent State University. The late Elliott Rudwick was a professor of history and sociology at Kent State University. Lewis is the Martin Luther King Jr. university professor of history at Rutgers University and author of the Pulitzer prize-winning W.E.B. Du Bois:
Biography of a Race.
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