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The scholar-activism of Rayford Whittingham Logan as a journalist provides a perspective to critique Western imperialism and racism in the form of public policy affecting black people in Africa and the African Diaspora between 1921 and 1950. In the immediate aftermath of World War I, Rayford Logan became interested in the international plight of black people and joined the Pan-African Congress movement of W.E.B. Du Bois in the 1920s. As a Pan-Africanist, Logan was critical of European colonialism in Africa and the West Indies through the Mandate System established in the Treaty of Versailles by the Allied victors of World War I. His subsequent career interest as a historian and professor of ...
The Crisis, founded by W.E.B. Du Bois as the official publication of the NAACP, is a journal of civil rights, history, politics, and culture and seeks to educate and challenge its readers about issues that continue to plague African Americans and other communities of color. For nearly 100 years, The Crisis has been the magazine of opinion and thought leaders, decision makers, peacemakers and justice seekers. It has chronicled, informed, educated, entertained and, in many instances, set the economic, political and social agenda for our nation and its multi-ethnic citizens.
"In this important, sophisticated, and original study, Chad Williams establishes the centrality of black soldiers and veterans to the struggles against racial inequality during World War I as no other book does. Torchbearers of Democracy sensitively examines the fraught connections between citizenship, obligation, and race while highlighting the diversity of black soldiers' experiences in fighting on behalf of a democracy that denied them rights and dignity. This is a major contribution to political, military, and civil rights history."--Eric Arnesen, George Washington University.
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Innovative new study mapping African American and Francophone black intellectual collaborations over human rights and citizenship from 1919 to 1963.
Includes Part 1, Books, Group 1 (1946)