LEROY DAVIS is a professor of history at Emory University. He is the coeditor of The African Experience in Community Development: The Continuing Struggle in Africa and the Americas. He lives in Atlanta.
A deeply researched, sensitive, and balanced account of the
extraordinary career of an individual whose life was spent in
combating the malignant consequences of racism. It is a first-class
piece of historical scholarship.--Willard B. Gatewood "author of
Black Americans and the White Man's Burden, 1898-1903"
The definitive account of Hope's life . . . As well as analyzing
the era's educational and racial politics, Davis paints a rounded
and convincing portrait of John Hope as a man, a husband, and a
father. . . . This fine study convincingly demonstrates that John
Hope was one of the most important southern black leaders between
Booker T. Washington and Martin Luther King Jr.--Journal of
American History
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