Elliott Rudwick – författare

".. . a well-researched and thoughtful inquiry into the circumstances andsocial forces producing one of the most violent of twentieth-century Americanrace riots."-- American Historical Review"His work fills a seriousgap in the history of racial violence in the United States. Never beforeanalyzed by sociologists in the way that the Chicago and Detroit riotswere, the East St. Louis riot outranked both as measured by the numberof deaths."-- American Journal of Sociology

Along the Color Line is a diverse collection of essays by two of the most accomplished historians of the modern African American experience, first published more than a quarter of a century ago. This informed study addresses such topics as black nationalism, nonviolent action, the changing patterns of interracial violence in the twentieth century, and the ways African American leaders have functioned and coped with racism in their quest to ensure the rights of full citizenship for African Americans. David Levering Lewis’s foreword to this first paperback edition attests to the book’s lasting relevance and importance.“Meier and Rudwick’s intellectual passion, professional integrity, and almost manic involvement in virtually every aspect of their academic specialty were of inestimable value to the coming of age of African American history.” -- from the foreword