A History of African-American Leadership

For students in American history, politics, sociology, and race relations, as well as general readers, Dierenfield (history, Canisius College) and White (American history, U. of Hull, UK) explore the African American experience from the period of slavery to the present, focusing on the themes of continuity and change, conflict and competition, race and class, and theory and ideology, as exemplified in key figures--Frederick Douglass, Martin Delany, Booker T. Washington, W.E.B. Du Bois, Marcus Garvey, Martin Luther King, Jr., Malcolm X, and Jesse Jackson--and the movements that they inspired or led. With all chapters revised, this edition adds a chapter on the work of female political and cultural leaders Harriet Tubman, Ida B. Wells, Mary McLeod Bethune, Fannie Lou Hamer, Condoleezza Rice, and Oprah Winfrey, as well as a new chapter on Barack Obama. The previous edition was published as Black Leadership in America: From Booker T. Washington to Jesse Jackson. Annotation c2012 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Bruce J. Dierenfield is Professor of History, Director of the All-College Honors Program, and former Peter Canisius Distinguished Teaching Professor of the African-American Experience at Canisius College in Buffalo, New York. He is the award-winning author of four previous books, including The Civil Rights Movement (Pearson, rev. ed.).

John White, now retired, was Senior Lecturer in American History in the Department of American Studies at the University of Hull. He has also taught at the Universities of Michigan, Rochester, Rutgers, California State and Alabama.