The betrayal of the Negro, from Rutherford B. Hayes to Woodrow Wilson
By: Rayford W. Logan ; new introduction by Eric Foner.
Edition: 1st Da Capo Press ed.
Publisher: Da Capo Press
Published: 1997
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 456
Subjects: African Americans -- Civil rights; African Americans -- History -- 1877-1964
Other titles: Betrayal of the Negro
Description: Between the end of Reconstruction in 1877 (when Hayes sacrificed African-American freedom in exchange for the White House) and the end of World War I in 1918, African Americans experienced their nadir. North and South colluded in gutting the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendments, depriving African Americans of their rights, and denying them equal education and a living wage.

The Betrayal of the Negro (originally published as The Negro in American Life and Thought: The Nadir, 1877-1901 and subsequently expanded) is the only full-scale account to document with encyclopedic research this neglected period in American history. The author examines every aspect of our country's post-Reconstruction retreat from equality: the economic factors, the Supreme Court decision, Booker T.

Washington and his "Era of Compromise," and, in a unique and disturbing survey, the racist caricatures that dominated the most liberal newspapers and magazines of the day. Dispassionate and insightful, Logan unfolds a narrative of national betrayal as harrowing as it is heartbreaking.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 401-441) and index.
Originally published: New enl. ed. New York : Collier Books, [1965].