"The Perils and Prospects of Southern Black Leadership" fills an important gap in uncovering the history of southern black leaders between the death of Booker T. Washington and the rise of Martin Luther King, Jr. Originally published to critical acclaim in 1977 (Duke University Press), and now available in paperback with a new preface by the author, this book provides an intellectual biography of Gordon Blaine Hancock, a Virginia educator, journalist, and minister whose writings and speeches on race relations were widely influential in the South in the thirty years prior to the "Brown"...
"The Perils and Prospects of Southern Black Leadership" fills an important gap in uncovering the history of southern black leaders between the death o...