John Hope (1868-1936), the first African American president of
Morehouse College and Atlanta University, was one of the most
distinguished in the pantheon of early-twentieth-century black
educators. Born of a mixed-race union in Augusta, Georgia, shortly
after the Civil War, Hope had a lifelong commitment to black public
and private education, adequate housing and health care, job
opportunities, and civil rights that never wavered. Hope became to
black college education what Booker T. Washington was to black
industrial education.
Leroy Davis examines the conflict inherent in Hope's attempt to
balance his joint roles as college president and national leader.
Along with his good friend W. E. B. Du Bois, Hope was at the
forefront of the radical faction of black leaders in the early
twentieth century, but he found himself taking more moderate
stances in order to obtain philanthropic funds for black higher
education. The story of Hope's life illuminates many complexities
that vexed African American leaders in a free but segregated
society.
"A Clashing of the Soul is 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
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