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A compelling reconstruction of the life of a black suffragist,
Adella Hunt Logan, blending family lore, historical research, and
literary imagination "Both a definitive rendering of a life and a
remarkable study of the interplay of race and gender in an America
whose shadows still haunt us today."-Henry Louis Gates, Jr. "If you
combine the pleasures of a seductive novel, discovering a real
American heroine, and learning the multiracial history of this
country that wasn't in our textbooks, you will have an idea of the
great gift that Adele Logan Alexander has given us."-Gloria Steinem
Born during the Civil War into a slaveholding family that included
black, white, and Cherokee forebears, Adella Hunt Logan dedicated
herself to advancing political and educational opportunities for
the African American community. She taught at Alabama's Tuskegee
Institute but also joined the segregated woman suffrage movement,
passing for white in order to fight for the rights of people of
color. Her determination-as a wife, mother, scholar, and activist
-to challenge the draconian restraints of race and gender generated
conflicts that precipitated her tragic demise. Historian Adele
Logan Alexander-Adella Hunt Logan's granddaughter-portrays Adella,
her family, and contemporaries such as Booker T. Washington, Susan
B. Anthony, Frederick Douglass, George Washington Carver, Theodore
Roosevelt, and W. E. B. Du Bois. Alexander bridges the chasms that
frustrate efforts to document the lives of those who traditionally
have been silenced, weaving together family lore, historical
research, and literary imagination into a riveting,
multigenerational family saga.
Race and racism have played a divisive and defining role throughout
much of America's history. Slavery, Jim Crow laws, segregation, and
Ku Klux Klan terrorism have inflicted deep psychic wounds, social
disparities, and economic disadvantages that have diminished the
promise of equal rights and opportunities for all. While much
progress in race relations has been made in recent years including
the election of Barack Obama as President of the United State it's
clear that our journey to a post-racial era is far from complete.
In virtually every measurable category, whether income levels, job
opportunities, access to health care, life expectancy, high school
diplomas, incarceration rates, do not fare well compared to their
white counterparts. The dialogue entitled Race and Reconciliation
in America was convened to provide a forum for a long overdue,
open, honest, and constructive discussion among people of good will
about the need for the American people to truly grasp the depth of
past misdeeds, why the legacies of past oppression persist, and how
we can achieve a more fair and just society embodied in the
American Dream."
Race and racism have played a divisive and defining role throughout
much of America's history. Slavery, Jim Crow laws, segregation, and
Ku Klux Klan terrorism have inflicted deep psychic wounds, social
disparities, and economic disadvantages that have diminished the
promise of equal rights and opportunities for all. While much
progress in race relations has been made in recent years_including
the election of Barack Obama as President of the United State_it's
clear that our journey to a post-racial era is far from complete.
In virtually every measurable category, whether income levels, job
opportunities, access to health care, life expectancy, high school
diplomas, incarceration rates, do not fare well compared to their
white counterparts. The dialogue entitled Race and Reconciliation
in America was convened to provide a forum for a long overdue,
open, honest, and constructive discussion among people of good will
about the need for the American people to truly grasp the depth of
past misdeeds, why the legacies of past oppression persist, and how
we can achieve a more fair and just society embodied in the
American Dream.
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