13 Against The Odds PDF book by Edwin R. Embree (13 inspiring Black people success stories)





EDWIN R. EMBREE has been dealing with race relations during almost all of his adult life. For the past fifteen years, he has been president of the Julius Rosen- wald Fund, a chief interest of which is the betterment of the conditions of the Negro in America. Before that, he was secretary and then vice-president of the Rockefeller Foundation and set up for that organization a department for the study of “human biology.” In carrying out this special Job he traveled not only all over the United States but to China, Japan, the Pacific Islands, Central and South America, and Europe. His famous study of the Negro, Brown Amer- ica^ was first published ten years ago and brought out (as Brown Ajtiericans') in a completely new edition in 1943. Enlarge, thus, is one of the pioneer students of race relations, and his work has made him for almost three decades a leader in the fight for justice and tolerance.13 Against the Odds iMary McLeod Bethune — Amazon of God 9Richard Wright — Native Son 25Charles S. Johnson — A Scholar and a Gentleman 47Walter White — Little David 71George Washington Carver — Sweet Potato Wizard 97Langston Hughes — Shakespeare in Harlem 117Marian Anderson — Deep River of Song 139W. E. B. Du Bois — ^Elder Statesman 153Mordecai W. Johnson — Lord High Chancellor 175William Grant Still — Music Maker 197A. Philip Randolph — Saint Philip of thePullman Porters 21 1Joe Louis — Champion of the World 231Paul Robeson — ^Voice of Freedom 243Author: Edwin R. EmbreePublication Date: 1947