A clashing of the soul
Subtitle: John Hope and the Dilemma of African American Leadership and Black Higher Education in the Early Twentieth Century
Edition: First edition
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
Published: 1998
Place of publication: Athens, Georgia
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 465
Copyright date: 1998
First sentence: John Hope was born on 2 June 1868, yet his story dose not begin on that date.
Description: In this definitive biography, historian Leroy Davis examines the conflict inherent in John Hope's attempt to balance his joint roles as college president and national leader. The story of Hope's life illuminates many complexities that vexed African American leaders in a free but segregated society and created what Mordecai Johnson, Howard University's first African American president, called a "clashing of the soul."