In the late sixties and early seventies, black separatist
movements were sweeping across the United States. This was the era
of "The Autobiography of Malcolm X, " Stokely Carmichael's and
Charles Hamilton's "Black Power, " and Eldridge Cleaver's "Soul on
Ice." In 1969 a group of distinguished African American
intellectuals met at Haverford College in order to devise
strategies to dissuade young blacks from adopting a separatist
political agenda. The participants included some of the most
prominent figures of the civil rights era--Ralph Ellison, John Hope
Franklin, and J. Saunders Redding, to name only a notable few.
Although these discussions were recorded, transcribed, and edited,
they were never published because the funding for them was
withdrawn. This volume at last makes the historic Haverford
discussions available, rescuing for the modern reader some of the
most eloquent voices in the intellectual history of black
America.
Michael Lackey has edited and annotated the transcript of this
lively exchange, and Alfred E. Prettyman has supplied an afterword.
While acknowledging the importance of the black power and
separatist movements, Lackey's introduction also sheds light on the
insights offered by critics of those movements. Despite the
frequent characterization of the dissenting integrationists as
Uncle Toms or establishment intellectuals, a misrepresentation that
has marginalized them in the intervening decades, Lackey argues
that they had their own compelling vision for black empowerment and
sociopolitical integration.
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