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Book Review

Canada and the United States

David Henry Anthony III. Max Yergan: Race Man, Internationalist, Cold Warrior. New York: New York University Press. 2006. Pp. xiii, 376. $49.00.
This book tells the story of one of the most intriguing African Americans of modern times. Born in 1892, Max Yergan was a pioneer YMCA missionary in India and Africa during World War I and the 1920s, a leading black radical during the 1930s and early 1940s, and a prominent cold warrior from the late 1940s until his death in 1975. His life, as David Henry Anthony III suggests, affords readers the opportunity to explore some of the most important developments of the twentieth century, most centrally the problem of the color line around the globe.	1
Raised in Raleigh, North Carolina, during the heyday of Booker T. Washington's influence, Yergan grew up believing in the importance of education and uplift. Pursuing this creed, he enrolled at Shaw University, where he began his long association with the YMCA and commitment to Christian service. In the early 1920s, Yergan became one of the first African American missionaries in Africa, working as a field secretary for the YMCA in South Africa. There he promulgated Washington's ideals of education and uplift mixed with a touch of pan-Africanism.	2
Yergan's career with the YMCA reached it zenith in 1930 with the "Bantu European Student Christian Association Conference." Held in Fort Hare, this "unprecedented interracial ... gathering" brought together a "veritable who's who of South African liberalism" as well as racial moderates from around the world. "Such a conclave," which Yergan spearheaded, "would have been a major event anywhere in the world at the time, including the United States," writes Anthony," but that it occurred in South Africa was astounding" (p. 106).	. . .

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