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Colored Memories - A Biographer's Quest for the Elusive Lester A. Walton (Hardcover)
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Colored Memories - A Biographer's Quest for the Elusive Lester A. Walton (Hardcover)
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Lester A. Walton was a well-known public figure in his day. An
African American journalist, cultural critic, diplomat, and
political activist, he was an adviser to presidents and
industrialists in a career that spanned the first six decades of
the twentieth century. He was a steadfast champion of democracy and
lived to see the passage of major civil rights legislation. But one
word best describes Walton today: forgotten.Exploring the contours
of this extraordinary life, Susan Curtis seeks to discover why our
collective memory of Walton has failed. In a unique narrative of
historical research, she recounts a fifteen-year journey, from the
streets of Harlem and ""The Ville"" in St. Louis to scattered
archives and obscure public records, as she uncovers the mysterious
circumstances surrounding Walton's disappearance from national
consciousness. And despite numerous roadblocks and dead ends in her
quest, she tells how she came to know this emblematic citizen of
the American Century in surprising ways.In this unconventional book
- a postmodern ghost story, an unprecedented experiment in
life-writing - Curtis shares her discoveries as a researcher.
Relating her frustrating search through long-overlooked documents
to discover this forgotten man, she offers insight into how
America's obsession with race has made Walton's story unwelcome.
She explores the treachery, duplicity, and archival accidents that
transformed a man dedicated to the fulfillment of American
democracy into a shadowy figure.Combining anecdotal memories with
the investigative instincts of the historian, Curtis embraces the
subjectivity of her research to show that what a society forgets or
suppresses is just as important as what it includes in its history.
Colored Memories is a highly original work that not only introduces
readers to a once-influential figure but also invites us to
reconsider how we view, understand, and preserve the past.
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