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The Heart of the Race Problem: The Life of Kelly Miller

Ida E. Jones

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Description:In 1910, Kelly Miller, a Howard alumnus cum Dean of Arts and Science, sought to establish a National Negro Library and Museum on the campus of Howard University. This idea introduced by Miller sought to provide the raw historical and sociological material needed to study African Americans. He believed that rising African American scholars as well as other scholars would benefit from learning about the rich African past and contribution to human history. Crafted in the era of pseudoscience, Charles Darwin’s theory reduced to the pedestrian “survival of the fittest” was appropriated by academic, legal and governmental agencies to circumscribe the boundaries of African American achievements. Concurrently, popular culture feasted on a bevy of minstrel shows where white men depicted contrived antebellum southern plantation life. This work is not solely a tribute to the creation of Moorland Spingarn Research Center nor the politics at Howard University during Kelly Miller’s tenure. This work attempts to situate the life of Kelly Miller in three areas the private, the public and the polemic. I have been able to reconstruct Miller from his early childhood in Winnsboro, South Carolina surrounded by a loving family to prominent educator, pamphleteer, author, and lecturer. Clearly, the issue of race was an urgent matter that all men and women of his generation sought to refute and recast. Miller’s life and ideological position is a unique example of a religious conservative who sought to navigate the explosive racial terrain of early twentieth century America. I cast Miller as a daysman, a biblical mediator found in the book of Job. Miller was an opinionated and passionate educator. His ideas were expressed in writings published in newspapers, journals, magazines and books. The vast majority of his writings involve some aspect of racial uplift or racial reconciliation. He sought to harmonize divergent opinions and find common ground to reconcile differences. His outlook on racial strife was optimistic, in part from his childhood as well as a Christian ethos. Unlike his two most famous contemporaries Booker T. Washington and W.E.B. DuBois, Miller did not create lasting an ideology such as DuBois’s pan-Africanism or institution such as Tuskegee Institute. Still his contributions to rising generations as well as the national conversations on race matters cannot be ignored. A, former student of Miller’s, W.A.C. Hughes, noted that there was a special “something” about Miller. That something in my opinion was his solution to the heart of race problem which revolved around education. Born in July 1863 six months after Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation, Kelly Miller, was a renowned educator, author, lecturer, and columnist who sought to raise the moral consciousness and cooperative action of African American leadership. Mathematically gifted Miller shifted his focus to the race problem in the mid-1890s to abate deteriorating race relations and strengthen the African American community. Jones’s tripartite theory is placed within the biblical context of a daysman. The daysman served as an Old Testament mediator seeking to reconcile disparate opinions. Jones believes that Miller’s entire life sought to harmonize divergent ideas and ideologies. Miller wrote: It is not sufficient for the leaders of the Negro race to rely upon denunciation of others, however deserved.to order visit http://www.portofharlem.net/iejones.htmlWe have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with The Heart of the Race Problem: The Life of Kelly Miller. To get started finding The Heart of the Race Problem: The Life of Kelly Miller, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Description: In 1910, Kelly Miller, a Howard alumnus cum Dean of Arts and Science, sought to establish a National Negro Library and Museum on the campus of Howard University. This idea introduced by Miller sought to provide the raw historical and sociological material needed to study African Americans. He believed that rising African American scholars as well as other scholars would benefit from learning about the rich African past and contribution to human history. Crafted in the era of pseudoscience, Charles Darwin’s theory reduced to the pedestrian “survival of the fittest” was appropriated by academic, legal and governmental agencies to circumscribe the boundaries of African American achievements. Concurrently, popular culture feasted on a bevy of minstrel shows where white men depicted contrived antebellum southern plantation life. This work is not solely a tribute to the creation of Moorland Spingarn Research Center nor the politics at Howard University during Kelly Miller’s tenure. This work attempts to situate the life of Kelly Miller in three areas the private, the public and the polemic. I have been able to reconstruct Miller from his early childhood in Winnsboro, South Carolina surrounded by a loving family to prominent educator, pamphleteer, author, and lecturer. Clearly, the issue of race was an urgent matter that all men and women of his generation sought to refute and recast. Miller’s life and ideological position is a unique example of a religious conservative who sought to navigate the explosive racial terrain of early twentieth century America. I cast Miller as a daysman, a biblical mediator found in the book of Job. Miller was an opinionated and passionate educator. His ideas were expressed in writings published in newspapers, journals, magazines and books. The vast majority of his writings involve some aspect of racial uplift or racial reconciliation. He sought to harmonize divergent opinions and find common ground to reconcile differences. His outlook on racial strife was optimistic, in part from his childhood as well as a Christian ethos. Unlike his two most famous contemporaries Booker T. Washington and W.E.B. DuBois, Miller did not create lasting an ideology such as DuBois’s pan-Africanism or institution such as Tuskegee Institute. Still his contributions to rising generations as well as the national conversations on race matters cannot be ignored. A, former student of Miller’s, W.A.C. Hughes, noted that there was a special “something” about Miller. That something in my opinion was his solution to the heart of race problem which revolved around education. Born in July 1863 six months after Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation, Kelly Miller, was a renowned educator, author, lecturer, and columnist who sought to raise the moral consciousness and cooperative action of African American leadership. Mathematically gifted Miller shifted his focus to the race problem in the mid-1890s to abate deteriorating race relations and strengthen the African American community. Jones’s tripartite theory is placed within the biblical context of a daysman. The daysman served as an Old Testament mediator seeking to reconcile disparate opinions. Jones believes that Miller’s entire life sought to harmonize divergent ideas and ideologies. Miller wrote: It is not sufficient for the leaders of the Negro race to rely upon denunciation of others, however deserved.to order visit http://www.portofharlem.net/iejones.htmlWe have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with The Heart of the Race Problem: The Life of Kelly Miller. To get started finding The Heart of the Race Problem: The Life of Kelly Miller, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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