Along the Color Line: EXPLORATIONS IN THE BLACK EXPERIENCE [Paperback]

Along the Color Lineis a diverse collection of essays by two of the most accomplished historians of the modern African American experience, first published more than a quarter of a century ago. This informed study addresses such topics as black nationalism, nonviolent action, the changing patterns of interracial violence in the twentieth century, and the ways African American leaders have functioned and coped with racism in their quest to ensure the rights of full citizenship for African Americans. David Levering Lewis’s foreword to this first paperback edition attests to the book’s lasting relevance and importance.
“Meier and Rudwick’s intellectual passion, professional integrity, and almost manic involvement in virtually every aspect of their academic specialty were of inestimable value to the coming of age of African American history.” -- from the foreword
 

August Meieris Professor Emeritus of History at Kent State University. He is the author ofNegro Thought in America, 1880–1915,a coauthor, with Elliott Rudwick, ofFrom Plantation to Ghetto and Black History and the Historical Profession,and a coeditor, with John Hope Franklin, ofBlack Leaders of the Twentieth Century.The lateElliott Rudwickwas a professor of history and sociology at Kent State University. His books includeFrom Plantation to GhettoandW. E. B. Du Bois: A Study in Minority Group Leadership.David Levering Lewisis Martin Luther King, Jr., University Professor at Rutgers and the winner of the Pulitzer Prize, the Bancroft Prize, the Francis Parkman Award, and the Ralph Waldo Emerson Award forW. E. B. Du Bois: Biography of a Race.