The activities of James Farmer, George Wiley, Floyd McKissick, Wilfred Ussery, and Roy Innis, along with an entire emotion-laden and action-packed era in the American civil rights movement, come to light in this widely acclaimed study of the rise and decline of CORE by two leading authorities in black studies. August Meier and Elliott Rudwick draw on interviews with many key CORE members and on a variety of original manuscripts and published sources as they study the evolution of the Congress on Racial Equality and place it within the context of the civil rights revolution as a whole. A new introduction written for the paperback edition updates the analysis to 1975.

Core: A Study in the Civil Rights Movement (An Illini Book)

Politics & Social Sciences

Rudwick, Elliott

Meier, August

Social Sciences

University of Illinois Press

A collection of original and previously published essays on black leaders, black nationalism, black power, and nonviolent direct action in the United States

Along the Color Line: Explorations in the Black Experience (Blacks in the New World)

History

Africa

". . . a well-researched and thoughtful inquiry into the circumstances and social forces producing one of the most violent of twentieth-century American race riots." -- American Historical Review "His work fills a serious gap in the history of racial violence in the United States. Never before analyzed by sociologists in the way that the Chicago and Detroit riots were, the East St. Louis riot outranked both as measured by the number of deaths." -- American Journal of Sociology

Race Riot at East St. Louis, July 2, 1917 (Blacks in the New World)

Biographies & Memoirs

Community & Culture

W. E. DUBOIS (Blacks in the New World) Paperback - January 1, 1970 by Elliott Rudwick (Author)

W. E. DUBOIS

Literature & Fiction

History & Criticism

Meier and Rudwick show how black history has evolved into one of the liveliest and most active areas of study.

Black History and the Historical Profession, 1915 1980

An edition of a classic in African American history.

Along the Color Line: EXPLORATIONS IN THE BLACK EXPERIENCE (Blacks in the New World)

Lewis, David Levering

Americas

"For almost two decades, August Meier and Elliott Rudwick have roamed the frontier of Afro-American history, blazing trails that others have followed. This book forges a solid link between race and class conflict in the twentieth century." ---Ira Berlin, The Nation
"This fact-filled study is essential to students of the labor and civil rights movements." ---David Kusnet, The New Republic
"A fascinating slice of history illustrating important race and class issues that are still with us." ---Library Journal
"By ignoring the conventional lines between labor and black history, Meier and Rudwick have found an unexplored middle ground---the net of relations between the black community and white economic institutions---that shaped the working life of blacks in Detroit's auto plants. This is a major achievement." ---David Brody, Professor Emeritus of History, University of California, Davis
". . . an important work . . . one of the first to apply the nitty-gritty of social and institutional history to 20th century African American and labor history." ---Eric Arnesen, University of Illinois at Chicago
Black Detroit and the Rise of the UAW is essential reading for historians of labor and race in America, as well those interested in Detroit's importance as a crucible for American urban history.

Black Detroit and the Rise of the UAW

Business & Money

Meier, Prof. August

Economics

University of Michigan Press

W. E. B. Du Bois: Propagandist of the Negro Protest (Studies in American Negro Life)

Atheneum

This pioneering work in African American history begins with the earliest experiences of blacks in the United States and offers an in-depth account of slavery, post-Civil War urban life, the place of religion in African American life, political activism, and the changing occupational and economic status of blacks.

From Plantation to Ghetto (3rd Edition) (American Century)

Hill and Wang

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