Lawrence Dunbar Reddick, Historian, activist and University Professor, was born in Jacksonville, Florida, in 1910. A graduate of both Fisk University and the University of Chicago he received a BA and an MA in history from Fisk in 1933 and completed his PhD in History in 1939 at the University of Chicago. A lifelong supporter of civil rights he worked with Martin Luther King Jr. on his book, Stride Toward Freedom and in 1959 he wrote a biography of King entitled Crusader without Violence. He was forthright in his criticism of stereotypical media coverage, on radio, in motion pictures, and textbooks of the portrayal of African Americans. Thus his 1934 article “Racial Attitudes in American History Textbooks of the South, was testament as
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Tennessee followed the same strategy except only one table was allocated for African-Americans while Florida and Georgia adhered to clear-cut policies. He highlights major issues in respect of sources, which were either listed as ‘sources unknown’, ‘sources inaccessible’ and incredibly sources ‘improperly exploited’, an issue Logan corroborates, while on the faculty of Bennett College in Greensboro, he found sources in the “most unsuspected places” or “scattered among bulky collections of ‘extraneous’ materials.” Moreover, scholarly materials in ‘black’ libraries more often than not were inferior—that is if such materials even
Tennessee followed the same strategy except only one table was allocated for African-Americans while Florida and Georgia adhered to clear-cut policies. He highlights major issues in respect of sources, which were either listed as ‘sources unknown’, ‘sources inaccessible’ and incredibly sources ‘improperly exploited’, an issue Logan corroborates, while on the faculty of Bennett College in Greensboro, he found sources in the “most unsuspected places” or “scattered among bulky collections of ‘extraneous’ materials.” Moreover, scholarly materials in ‘black’ libraries more often than not were inferior—that is if such materials even