Uncompromising activist : Richard Greener, first black graduate of Harvard College

Uncompromising activist : Richard Greener, first black graduate of Harvard College /

"This book is a narrative biography of a subject who is intriguing in his own right, but is also exemplary of confounding perspectives on race and skin color then and now--probably more so now, with the enormous growth of a multiracial citizenry. 'Black' citizens always came in all sh...

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Main Author: Chaddock, Katherine Reynolds, 1945- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2017
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Greener, Richard Theodore, > 1844-1922.
Harvard College (1780- ) > Students > Biography.
University of South Carolina > Faculty > Biography.
Howard University. > School of Law > Faculty > Biography.
African Americans > Biography.
African American political activists > Biography.
African American scholars > Biography.
African American diplomats > Biography.
Passing (Identity) > United States > Case studies.
United States > Race relations > Case studies.
Electronic books.
Local Note:ProQuest Ebook Central
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: Man Without a Race
  • Boyhood Interrupted
  • Being Prepared
  • Experiment at Harvard
  • An Accidental Academic
  • Professing in a Small and Angry Place
  • The Brutal Retreat
  • Unsettled Advocate
  • A Violent Attack and Hopeless Case
  • Monumental Plans
  • Off White
  • Our Man in Vladivostok
  • Closure in Black and White
  • Epilogue: The Passing of Richard Greener.

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