La Citadelle
Layle Lane and Social Activism in Twentieth-Century America
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2014
University Press of America (Verlag)
978-0-7618-6474-5 (ISBN)
University Press of America (Verlag)
978-0-7618-6474-5 (ISBN)
Layle Lane was an educator, social activist, and political leader. She played a major role in the March on Washington Movement. She became an innovative groundbreaker in New York City and Pennsylvania where she enacted social transformations and educational camps for inner city boys.
Layle Lane was an educator, a social activist, and a political leader. She was a key organizer of the first march on Washington, D.C., which led to the creation of the Fair Employment Practices Act and Commission after President Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s executive order in 1941. Lane also played a major role in the March on Washington Movement, headed by A. Philip Randolph. In 1948, Lane encouraged President Harry Truman to desegregate the American military through her involvement in the movement. After taking on Washington, D.C., Lane ran for political office in New York City where she played a major role in the city’s social changes. During the 1950s, she ran a camp for inner city boys in Doylestown, Pennsylvania, to expose them to a way of life different from the city streets. It is on this property that a street presently runs through called Layle Lane—the first street named after an African American woman in Bucks County, Pennsylvania. La Citadelle chronicles the life of a real American hero who paved the way for future social activists.
Layle Lane was an educator, a social activist, and a political leader. She was a key organizer of the first march on Washington, D.C., which led to the creation of the Fair Employment Practices Act and Commission after President Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s executive order in 1941. Lane also played a major role in the March on Washington Movement, headed by A. Philip Randolph. In 1948, Lane encouraged President Harry Truman to desegregate the American military through her involvement in the movement. After taking on Washington, D.C., Lane ran for political office in New York City where she played a major role in the city’s social changes. During the 1950s, she ran a camp for inner city boys in Doylestown, Pennsylvania, to expose them to a way of life different from the city streets. It is on this property that a street presently runs through called Layle Lane—the first street named after an African American woman in Bucks County, Pennsylvania. La Citadelle chronicles the life of a real American hero who paved the way for future social activists.
Leonard Bethel is a retired Presbyterian minister and professor emeritus from Rutgers University. Bethel is the author of Advancement Through Service: A History of the Frontiers International, Plainfield’s African American: From Northern Slavery to Church Freedom, Africana: An Introduction and Study, and Educating African Leaders: Missionism in America.
Foreword
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Chapter 1: Reconstruction
Chapter 2: Childhood
Chapter 3: From Howard to New York
Chapter 4: Calvin Lane
Chapter 5: Dunbar
Chapter 6: La Citadelle
Chapter 7: Co-op
Chapter 8: Days of Triumph
Chapter 9: Companeros(as)
Chapter 10: The Heart Is the Teacher
Chapter 11: Layle
Bibliography
Index
| Verlagsort | Lanham, MD |
|---|---|
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 161 x 231 mm |
| Gewicht | 440 g |
| Themenwelt | Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte |
| Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte | |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung | |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie | |
| ISBN-10 | 0-7618-6474-1 / 0761864741 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0-7618-6474-5 / 9780761864745 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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