What the Negro Wants
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What the Negro Wants

  1. 416 pages
  2. English
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What the Negro Wants

About this book

Published in 1944, What the Negro Wants was a direct and emphatic call for the end of segregation and racial discrimination that set the agenda for the civil rights movement to come.

With essays by fourteen prominent African American intellectuals, including Langston Hughes, Sterling Brown, Mary McLeod Bethune, A. Philip Randolph, W. E. B. Du Bois, and Roy Wilkins, What the Negro Wants explores the policies and practices that could be employed to achieve equal rights and opportunities for Black Americans, rejecting calls to reform the old system of segregation and instead arguing for the construction of a new system of equality. Stirring intense controversy at the time of publication, the book serves as a unique window into the history of the civil rights movement and offers startling comparisons to today's continuing fight against racism and inequality.

Originally gathered together by distinguished Howard University historian Rayford W. Logan in 1944, our 2001 edition of the book includes Rayford Logan's introduction to the 1969 reprint, a new introduction by Kenneth Janken, and an updated bibliography.

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Copyright 
© 
1944
by 
the 
University 
of 
North 
Carolina 
Press 
Copyright 
© 
1969
by 
Agathon 
Press 
Copyright 
© 
2001
by 
University 
of 
Notre 
Dame 
Notre 
Dame, 
Indiana 
46556
All 
Rights 
Reserved 
www.undpress.nd.edu 
Published 
in 
the 
United 
States 
of 
America 
Library 
of 
Congress 
Cataloging-in-Publication 
Data 
What 
the 
Negro 
wants 
/ 
edited 
by 
Rayford 
W. 
Logan.
p. 
cm. 
— 
(African 
American 
intellectual 
heritage 
series) 
Originally 
published: 
Chapel 
Hill, 
N.C. 
: 
University 
of 
North 
Carolina 
Press, 
1944
. 
With 
new 
introd. 
and 
bibliographic 
update 
by 
Kenneth 
Robert 
Janken, 
and 
pref. 
written 
by 
Logan 
for
1969
reprint. 
Includes 
bibliographical 
references. 
isbn 
0-268-01966-5
(alk. 
paper) 
—
isbn 
13: 
978-0-268-01964-8
(pbk.: 
alk. 
paper)—
isbn 
10: 
0-268-01964-9
(pbk.: 
alk. 
paper) 
1
. 
Afro-Americans—Civil 
rights. 
2
. 
Afro-Americans—Social 
conditions—
To 
1964.
3
. 
United 
States—Race 
relations. 
I. 
Logan, 
Rayford 
Whittingham, 
1897
–
II. 
Series. 
eI85.61.w57
2001 
305·.96’073—
dc
21
00-049101

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half title
  3. Series page
  4. Title page
  5. Copyright
  6. Contents
  7. INTRODUCTION TO RAYFORD W. LOGAN'S WHAT THE NEGRO WANTS
  8. INTRODUCTION TO THE 1969 REPRINT
  9. WHAT THE NEGRO WANTS