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By Wendell E. Pritchett

ISBN-10: 0226684482

ISBN-13: 9780226684482

From his function as Franklin Roosevelt’s “negro consultant” to his appointment less than Lyndon Johnson because the first secretary of Housing and concrete improvement, Robert Clifton Weaver was once essentially the most influential family coverage makers and civil rights advocates of the 20th century. This quantity, the 1st biography of the 1st African American to carry a cupboard place within the federal govt, rescues from obscurity the tale of a guy whose legacy keeps to impact American race relatives and the towns during which they principally play out.

Tracing Weaver’s profession throughout the construction, growth, and contraction of recent Deal liberalism, Wendell E. Pritchett illuminates his instrumental position within the start of just about each city initiative of the interval, from public housing and concrete renewal to affirmative motion and lease regulate. past those coverage achievements, Weaver additionally based racial liberalism, a brand new method of race relatives that propelled him via a chain of high-level positions in private and non-private enterprises operating to advertise racial cooperation in American towns. yet Pritchett exhibits that regardless of Weaver’s efforts to make race beside the point, white and black americans persisted to name on him to mediate among the races—a place that grew more and more untenable as Weaver remained stuck among the white strength constitution to which he pledged his allegiance and the African american citizens whose lives he dedicated his occupation to improving. 

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The hiring of the first African American to a tenure-track position at a prestigious white college (Dunbar grad Allison Davis, who was appointed to the University of Chicago faculty in 1942) was a decade away. Since the turn of the century, all of the department’s own hires had been its own students, but even though he was among the best students in his class, it does not appear that the faculty ever considered keeping Weaver in Cambridge. In later years, Preparing the Talented Tenth * 29 the Harvard economics department would add several assistant professors (most of whom were not Harvard graduates), but Weaver’s job opportunities were limited to black colleges.

But he struggled with several aspects of the program, particularly German (in which he received an E). By his own account, Weaver enjoyed the freedom of being so far from his mother too 22 * CHAPTER ONE much during his freshman year. ” By the end of the year, Weaver was on academic probation, and he lost his scholarship aid. 35 In the spring of 1926, Weaver decided to transfer out of the School of Engineering to the liberal arts college. He later remarked that the engineering curriculum was like that of a graduate school, and tongue-in-cheek, he claimed that he had been having too good a time to do the work.

In 1928, Weaver participated in what many blacks at the time called the “wedding of the century,” the marriage of Yolande DuBois, only child of W. E. B. DuBois, and poet Countee Cullen, son of one of the nation’s most famous black ministers. In 1928 the two were married in front of 1,500 people at Salem Methodist Church in Harlem. Weaver was one of ten groomsmen (there were fifteen bridesmaids), joining several of the leading lights of the Harlem Renaissance, including Arna Bontemps and Langston Hughes.

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