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Einstein on race and racism

Author: Fred Jerome; Rodger Taylor
Publisher: New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, ©2005.
Edition/Format:   Print book : EnglishView all editions and formats
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"Nearly fifty years after his death, Albert Einstein remains one of America's foremost cultural icons. Among the ocean of Einsteinia - scientific monographs, biographies, anthologies, bibliographies, calendars, postcards, posters, and Hollywood films - there is a peculiar void when it comes to the connection that the brilliant scientist had with the African American community. Virtually nowhere is there any mention  Read more...
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Named Person: Albert Einstein; Albert Einstein; Albert Einstein; Albert Einstein; Albert Einstein
Material Type: Internet resource
Document Type: Book, Internet Resource
All Authors / Contributors: Fred Jerome; Rodger Taylor
ISBN: 0813536170 9780813536170 0813539528 9780813539522
OCLC Number: 56924838
Description: xii, 206 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Contents: pt. I. Einstein and Robeson on Witherspoon Street --
1. Escape from Berlin --
2. "Paradise" --
3. The other Princeton --
4. Witherspoon Street --
5. Einstein and Robeson, I --
6. "Wall of fame" --
7. The home front --
8. Civil rights activist --
9. From World War to Cold War --
10. Einstein and Robeson, II --
11. "My friend, Doctor Einstein" --
pt. II. Documents --
1. Einstein's statements on race and racism --
A. "To American Negroes," The Crisis, February 1932 --
B. Address at the inauguration of the "Wall of fame" at the World's Fair in New York, 1940 --
C. "The Negro Question," Pageant, January 1946 --
D. Speech to Lincoln University [Pennsylvania] students and faculty, May 3, 1946 --
E. Letter to President Harry S. Truman on antilynching law, September 1946 --
F. Message to the National Urban League, September 16, 1946 --
G. On Walter White, October 1947 --
H. Interview with the Cheney Record, October 1948 --
I. Message to the Southwide Conference on discrimination in higher education, sponsored by the Southern Conference Educational Fund (SCEF), Atlanta University, 1950 --
J. Interview with Peter A. Bucky --
K. Correspondence from W.E.B. Du Bois, 1951 --
2. From Einstein's FBI file : on civil rights.
Responsibility: Fred Jerome and Rodger Taylor.
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