02754nam 2200589 a 450 991082391900332120230126203339.00-253-01066-7(CKB)2550000001113572(EBL)1365238(OCoLC)857365432(SSID)ssj0000983596(PQKBManifestationID)11611506(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000983596(PQKBWorkID)11005031(PQKB)10390425(MiAaPQ)EBC1365238(MdBmJHUP)muse31525(Au-PeEL)EBL1365238(CaPaEBR)ebr10753565(CaONFJC)MIL513428(EXLCZ)99255000000111357220130530d2013 uy 0engurcn|||||||||txtccrRace harmony and black progress Jack Woofter and the interracial cooperation movement /Mark EllisBloomington Indiana University Press20131 online resource (345 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-253-01059-4 1-299-82177-4 Includes bibliographical references and index.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.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 ratherAfrican AmericansSouthern StatesSocial conditions20th centurySociologistsUnited StatesBiographySouthern StatesRace relationsHistory20th centuryAfrican AmericansSocial conditionsSociologists301.092BEllis Mark1955-1648966MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910823919003321Race harmony and black progress3997433UNINA