By August Meier
To lecturers of African American background, August Meier is easily revered as a first-rank student and editor. yet few individuals are conscious of his formative reviews within the twenty years following global conflict II, as a white professor educating at black faculties and as an activist within the civil rights circulation. This quantity brings jointly 16 of his essays written among 1945 and 1965. Meier has further a considerable advent, reflecting on these years and surroundings the context within which the essays have been written. John H. Bracey Jr. contributes an afterword which speaks to the distinctiveness of Meier's adventure between historians of African American stories.
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