| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 91.3

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Book Review

Charles S. Johnson: Leadership beyond the Veil in the Age of Jim Crow. By Patrick J. Gilpin and Marybeth Gasman. (Albany: State University of New York Press, 2003. xvi, 318 pp. Cloth, $78.50, ISBN 0-7914-5897-0. Paper, $23.95, ISBN 0-7914-5898-9.)

Although he wrote such classics of regional sociology as Shadow of the Plantation (1934) and Growing Up in the Black Belt (1941), Charles Spurgeon Johnson (1893–1956) is better known today as one of the "Big Six" (p. 19) promoters of the Harlem Renaissance or as the first black president of Fisk University than as a pioneering social scientist akin to W. E. B. Du Bois and E. Franklin Frazier. That he served instrumentally in the informal Black Cabinet that counseled American presidents from Franklin D. Roosevelt to Dwight D. Eisenhower has become as obscure as his founding of the 1940s annual Race Relations institutes that became southern interracial incubators of the coming civil rights movement.

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