Robert R. Church Jr. and the African American Political Struggle - Darius J. Young

Descriere Robert R. Church Jr. and the African American Political Struggle - Darius J. Young

\nSouthern Conference on African American Studies, \nInc., C. Calvin Smith Book Award \n\n \n \n \nThis volume highlights the little-known story of \nRobert R. Church Jr., the most prominent black Republican of the 1920s and \n1930s. Tracing Church's lifelong crusade to make race an important part of the \nnational political conversation, Darius Young reveals how Church was critical \nto the formative years of the civil rights struggle. \n \n\n \nA member of the black elite in Memphis, \nTennessee, Church was a banker, political mobilizer, and civil rights advocate \nwho worked to create opportunities for the black community despite the \nnotorious Democrat E. H. Boss Crump's hold over Memphis politics. Spurred by \nthe belief that the vote was the most pragmatic path to full citizenship in the \nUnited States, Church founded the Lincoln League of America, which advocated \nfor the interests of black voters in over thirty states. He was instrumental in \nestablishing the NAACP throughout the South as it investigated various \nincidents of racial violence in the Mississippi Delta. At the height of his \ninfluence, Church served as an advisor for Presidents Harding and Coolidge, \ngenerating greater participation of and recognition for African Americans in \nthe Republican Party. \n \n\n \nChurch's life and career offer a window into the \nincremental, behind-the-scenes victories of black voters and leaders during the \nJim Crow era that set the foundation for the more nationally visible civil \nrights movement to follow. \n \n\n \nPublication of the paperback edition made \npossible by a Sustaining the Humanities through the American Rescue Plan grant \nfrom the National Endowment for the Humanities.\n

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