Nelson Paul Fredrick L. McGhee: A Life on the Color Line, 1861-1912 9781681340241

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Автор: Nelson Paul
Название: Fredrick L. McGhee: A Life on the Color Line, 1861-1912
ISBN: 9781681340241
Издательство: Random House (USA)
Классификация: ISBN-10: 1681340240
Обложка/Формат: Paperback
Страницы: 262
Вес: 0.39 кг.
Дата издания: 15.02.2017
Язык: English
Размер: 229 x 152 x 15
Поставляется из: США
Описание: Distinguished by his hawk-like gaze and shock of silver hair, his forceful oratory and fierce advocacy, Fredrick L. McGhee was Minnesotas first African American attorney and an intelligent, tireless civil rights organizer. He moved onto the national stage when he helped found the Niagara Movement--the forerunner of todays NAACP, which McGhee later helped spread across the Midwest. Years later, NAACP chairman Roy Wilkins would remember of McGhee that it was through him that the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People reached St. Paul and our house at] 906 Galtier Street.

Despite McGhees crucial role in early civil rights organizing, until now there has been no serious study of his life and work. Paul D. Nelson has meticulously reconstructed McGhees life--from his birth into slavery during the Civil War, through his education and early career as a lawyer, to his eventual insight into the power the courts held as a force for political and social change. Nelson analyzes McGhees legal strategies in important cases, such as the Hardy v. East Tennessee, Virginia, and Georgia Railway Co. case of 1891, the first attempt at desegregation in the United States, whose failed outcome led five years later to Plessy v. Ferguson and the doctrine of separate but equal.

The succession of incremental advances and devastating setbacks in McGhees remarkable and accomplished life deserve to be remembered alongside the victories won by the civil rights leaders he influenced and whose breakthroughs he made possible. Nelsons biography illuminates one of the darkest periods in American history and recognizes the role of one man who helped lead his people into the light.

Fredrick L. McGhee: A Life on the Color Line, 1861-1912, Nelson Paul