Our problem is not racial, but human and economic. . . . We hold the Negro racially responsible for conditions common to all races on his economic plane. The writings of reformer Lily Hardy Hammond (1859-1925) are filled with such forthright criticisms of southern white attitudes toward African Americans-enough so that her stature as a southern progressive thinker would seem assured. Yet Hammond, who once stood at the intellectual center of the southern women's social gospel movement and was in her time the South's most prolific female writer on the race question, has been marginalized. This volume reprints In Black and White, the most important of Hammond's ten books, along with a sampling of the dozens of articles she published. Elna C. Green's biographical introduction tells of Hammond's marriage to a prominent Methodist minister and educator. It also traces Hammond's career within the context of prevailing gender and racial attitudes in the Jim Crow South. Hammond, who had roots in Methodist home mission work, was also active in such secular and ecumenical organizations as the Southern Sociological Congress, the Commission on Interracial Cooperation, and the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. Hammond worked alongside blacks to promote education, improve living conditions, and stop lynching. As a suffragist and temperance advocate, she urged the leaders of those largely white women's movements to partner with African Americans. Historians of religion, social science, and race relations will welcome the reintroduction of this remarkable but virtually forgotten figure.
Product Identifiers
Publisher
University of Georgia Press
ISBN-13
9780820330624
eBay Product ID (ePID)
184078290
Product Key Features
Subject Area
Social Work, Economic Sociology
Author
Lily Hardy Hammond
Publication Name
In Black and White: an Interpretation of the South
Format
Paperback
Language
English
Subject
Zoology
Publication Year
2008
Type
Textbook
Number of Pages
224 Pages
Dimensions
Item Height
229mm
Item Width
152mm
Additional Product Features
Title_Author
Lily Hardy Hammond
Series Title
The Publications of the Southern Texts Society
Country/Region of Manufacture
United States
Editor
Elna C. Green
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