Overall Good Condition. Minor bent on front cover. Please see attached Photos. Year 1971 released About : From the turn of the century to the time of the New Deal, black American writers approached the race problem in terms that were unmistakably those of the American dream of success. A belief in infinite progress, material accomplishment, and economic and educational opportunity-in short, the Horatio Alger myth-was the stuff of the Negro solution to his own predicament. In this selection of articles from periodical literature of the period, Miss Sochen illustrates the various facets of the American dream as they were utilized by blacks. Intellectuals hoped to effect significant changes in race relations by publicizing the terrible conditions of Negro life and appealing to the moral conscience of white America. Men as politically different as W. E. B. DuBois and Booker T. Washington were united in their concerns and in their dream of a better America.

ISBN: 9780812961393