| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 92.2

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Book Review

Luther P. Jackson and a Life for Civil Rights. By Michael Dennis. (Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2004. xiv, 254 pp. $55.00, ISBN 0-8130-2727-6.)

Titans of African American history such as Carter G. Woodson, W. E. B. Du Bois, and Rayford Logan, more often than not, have overshadowed Luther Porter Jackson. More is the shame for this because Luther P. Jackson is an excellent example of the black public intellectual of the past: one whose scholarship was utilized for political action for democratic reform. The main reform in this case was increasing the voter registration among Virginia's eligible African American populace. Despite the paternalistic velvet-glove approach to race relations by the white elites in Virginia, the stifling indignities of segregation still blocked the chances of blacks to obtain true freedom, equality, and democracy. Luther P. Jackson's lifelong work sought to break down those barriers.

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