Abstract
The dominance of Booker T. Washington and the loyalty of most African Americans to the Republican Party are often mistaken as markers of black political unanimity at the turn of the twentieth century. Even worse, they are assumed to stand for the whole of African American political life. Benjamin R. Justesen’s story of the struggles to establish and sustain the National Afro-American Council should serve as an important reminder of the tensions, diversity, and energy within black politics in this period. The reminder is so important, and so potential productive, that one wishes that Broken Brotherhood: The Rise and Fall of the National Afro-American Council were a more broadly imagined work.
Document Type
Book Review
Publication Date
2010
Publisher Statement
Copyright © 2010 The Southern Historical Association. This article first appeared in Journal of Southern History 72:2 (2010), 481-482.
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Recommended Citation
Yellin, Eric S. "‘Broken Brotherhood: The Rise and Fall of the National Afro-American Council,’ by Benjamin R. Justesen." Journal of Southern History 72, no. 2 (2010): 481-82.
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