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Uncompromising Activist

Name: Uncompromising Activist
Brand: JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY PRESS
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Richard Greener, First Black Graduate of Harvard College

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By Katherine Reynolds Chaddock
Imprint: JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY PRESS
Release Date: November 14, 2017
Format: HARDBACK
Pages: 216

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Richard Theodore Greener (18441922) was a renowned black activist and scholar. In 1870, he was the first black graduate of Harvard College. During Reconstruction, he was the first black faculty member at a southern white college, the University of South Carolina. He was even the first black US diplomat to a white country, serving in Vladivostok, Russia. A notable speaker and writer for racial equality, he also served as a dean of the Howard University School of Law and as the administrative head of the Ulysses S. Grant Monument Association. Yet he died in obscurity, his name barely remembered.

His black friends and colleagues often looked askance at the light-skinned Greener's ease among whites and sometimes wrongfully accused him of trying to "pass." While he was overseas on a diplomatic mission, Greener's wife and five children stayed in New York City, changed their names, and vanished into white society. Greener never saw them again. At a time when Americans viewed themselves simply as either white or not, Greener lost not only his family but also his sense of clarity about race.

Richard Greener's story demonstrates the human realities of racial politics throughout the fight for abolition, the struggle for equal rights, and the backslide into legal segregation. Katherine Reynolds Chaddock has written a long overdue narrative biography about a man, fascinating in his own right, who also exemplified America's discomfiting perspectives on race and skin color. Uncompromising Activist is a lively tale that will interest anyone curious about the human elements of the equal rights struggle.

Introduction
1. Boyhood Interrupted
2. Being Prepared
3. Experiment at Harvard
4. An Accidental Academic
5. Professing in a Small and Angry Place
6. The Brutal Retreat
7. Unsettled Advocate
8. A Violent Attack and Hopeless Case
9. Monumental Plans
10. Off White
11. Our Man in Vladivostok
12. Closure in Black and White
Epilogue
Acknowledgments
Notes
Bibliography
Index

""An important addition to the growing corpus of African American biography, this slender volume resurrects to historical memory Richard Theodore Greener (1844-1922), a semi-obscure figure best known for being the first black graduate of Harvard College. Katherine Reynolds Chaddock, a distinguished professor emerita of education at the University of South Carolina, shows in this clear and straightforward narrative that Greener actually deserves recognition for several other important contributions to civil rights in the early Jim Crow era as well. Readers may even come away wondering why Greener is not placed alongside his more famous contemporaries Frederick Douglass, Booker T. Washington, and W. E. B. Du Bois in the pantheon of great black leaders of his generation.""

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