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Colored Memories: A Biographer's Quest for the Elusive Lester A. Walton
Susan Curtis
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Description for Colored Memories: A Biographer's Quest for the Elusive Lester A. Walton
Hardcover. Lester A Walton was African American journalist, cultural critic, diplomat, and political activist. This book, while exploring the contours of his life, seeks to discover why our collective memory of Walton has failed. Num Pages: 304 pages, 15 illustrations, bibliography, index. BIC Classification: 1KBB; BGH; HBJK; HBLW. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 156 x 27. Weight in Grams: 653.
Lester A. Walton was a well-known public figure in his day. An African American journalist, cultural critic, diplomat, and political activist, he was an adviser to presidents and industrialists in a career that spanned the first six decades of the twentieth century. He was a steadfast champion of democracy and lived to see the passage of major civil rights legislation. But one word best describes Walton today: forgotten.Exploring the contours of this extraordinary life, Susan Curtis seeks to discover why our collective memory of Walton has failed. In a unique narrative of historical research, she recounts a fifteen-year journey, from ... Read more
Lester A. Walton was a well-known public figure in his day. An African American journalist, cultural critic, diplomat, and political activist, he was an adviser to presidents and industrialists in a career that spanned the first six decades of the twentieth century. He was a steadfast champion of democracy and lived to see the passage of major civil rights legislation. But one word best describes Walton today: forgotten.Exploring the contours of this extraordinary life, Susan Curtis seeks to discover why our collective memory of Walton has failed. In a unique narrative of historical research, she recounts a fifteen-year journey, from ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
University of Missouri
Condition
New
Number of Pages
304
Place of Publication
Missouri, United States
ISBN
9780826217868
SKU
V9780826217868
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About Susan Curtis
Susan Curtis is Professor of History and American Studies at Purdue University. She is the author of A Consuming Faith: The Social Gospel and Modern American Culture, Dancing to a Black Man's Tune: A Life of Scott Joplin, and The First Black Actors on the Great White Way, all published by the University of Missouri Press.
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