Reluctant Reformers
Allen, Robert L. / Allen, Chude Pamela / Bouie, Jamelle Reluctant Reformers explores the centrality of racism to American politics through the origins, internal dynamics, and leadership of the major democratic and social justice movements between the early nineteenth century and the end of World War II. It focuses in particular on the abolitionists, the Populist Party, the Progressive reformers, and the women's suffrage, labor, and socialist and communist movements.
Despite their achievements, virt...