Research Catalog

John Hervey Wheeler, black banking, and the economic struggle for civil rights

Title

John Hervey Wheeler, black banking, and the economic struggle for civil rights / Brandon K. Winford.

Author

Winford, Brandon K.

Publication

Lexington, Kentucky : University Press of Kentucky, [2020]
©2020

Items in the Library & Off-site

Filter by

1 Item

Item details
Status	Format	Access	Call Number	Item Location
Request for On-site Use Request Scan Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person.	Text	Use in library	Sc E 20-322	Schomburg Center - Research & Reference

Details

Description

xi, 337 pages : illustrations, facsimile, map, portraits; 24 cm.

Summary

"John Hervey Wheeler (1908-1978) was one of the civil rights movement's most influential leaders. In articulating a bold vision of regional prosperity grounded in full citizenship and economic power for African Americans, this banker, lawyer, and visionary would play a key role in the fight for racial and economic equality throughout North Carolina. Utilizing previously unexamined sources from the John Hervey Wheeler Collection at the Atlanta University Center Robert W. Woodruff Library, this biography explores the black freedom struggle through the life of North Carolina's most influential black power broker. After graduating from Morehouse College, Wheeler returned to Durham and began a decades-long career at Mechanics and Farmers (M&F) Bank. He started as a teller and rose to become bank president in 1952. In 1961, President Kennedy appointed Wheeler to the President's Committee on Equal Employment Opportunity, a position in which he championed equal rights for African Americans and worked with Vice President Johnson to draft civil rights legislation. One of the first blacks to attain a high position in the state's Democratic Party, Wheeler became the state party's treasurer in 1968, and then its financial director. Wheeler urged North Carolina's white financial advisors to steer the region toward the end of Jim Crow segregation for economic reasons. Straddling the line between confrontation and negotiation, Wheeler pushed for increased economic opportunity for African Americans while reminding the white South that its future was linked to the plight of black southerners"--

Series Statement

Civil rights and the struggle for black equality in the twentieth century

Uniform Title

Civil rights and the struggle for Black equality in the twentieth century.

Subject

Genre/Form

Biographies.
History.

Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references (pages 299-317) and index.

Contents

From Slavery to Middle-Class Respectability -- Black Business Activism in the Great Depression -- The Battle for Educational Equality in the Postwar New South -- Direct Action and the Search for "Freedom of Movement" -- Equal Employment, Voting Rights, and Public Policy at the National Level -- Urban Renewal and the Prospects of a Free and Open Society.

Call Number

Sc E 20-322

ISBN

9780813178257
0813178258
9780813178271 (canceled/invalid)
9780813178288 (canceled/invalid)

LCCN

2019037387

OCLC

1118976750

Author

Winford, Brandon K., author.

Title

John Hervey Wheeler, black banking, and the economic struggle for civil rights / Brandon K. Winford.

Publisher

Lexington, Kentucky : University Press of Kentucky, [2020]

Copyright Date

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

Civil rights and the struggle for black equality in the twentieth century

Civil rights and the struggle for Black equality in the twentieth century.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (pages 299-317) and index.

Chronological Term

1900-1999

Local Subject

Black author.

Research Call Number

Sc E 20-322

View in Legacy Catalog