Black Judas: William Hannibal Thomas and The American Negro
By John David Smith.
Description
This detective-like biography is a compelling story of racial self-hatred in America and of a black man who became a pariah among his own people: William Hannibal Thomas's transformation from a critical but optimistic black nationalist to a cynical black Negrophobe. After working as a preacher, teacher, attorney, and journalist in the last three decades of the nineteenth century, Thomas in 1901 published his infamous second book, The American Negro. It became a national sensation, stoking the fires of white racism with a force that scores of white bigots could not have hoped to achieve...
ISBN(s)
1566634237, 9781566634236