Race harmony and black progress : Jack Woofter and the interracial cooperation movement / / Mark Ellis

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910823919003321
• Autore: Ellis Mark <1955->
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Bloomington, : Indiana University Press, 2013
• ISBN: 0-253-01066-7
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (345 p.)
• Disciplina: 301.092; B
• Soggetti: African Americans - Southern States - Social conditions - 20th century; Sociologists - United States; Southern States Race relations History 20th century
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Jack Woofter : the education of a southern liberal -- Thomas Jesse Jones and Negro education -- Migration and war -- Will Alexander and the Commission on Interracial Cooperation -- Dorsey, Dyer, and lynching -- The limits of interracial cooperation -- Northern money and race studies -- Howard Odum and the Institute for Research in Social Science.
• Sommario/riassunto: Founded by white males, the interracial cooperation movement flourished in the American South in the years before the New Deal. The movement sought local dialogue between the races, improvement of education, and reduction of interracial violence, tending the flame of white liberalism until the emergence of white activists in the 1930's and after. Thomas Jackson (Jack) Woofter Jr., a Georgia sociologist and an authority on American race relations, migration, rural development, population change, and social security, maintained an unshakable faith in the ""effectiveness of cooperation rather