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SCHOOL: ADVISORS: COMMITTEE MEMBERS: MPACT Status: Fully Complete Title: Kelly Miller, 1895--1939: Portrait of an African American intellectual Abstract: The historiography of the African American intellectual tradition from the turn of the twentieth century to World War II has been almost entirely dominated by two figures, Booker T. Washington and W.E.B. DuBois. Since the 1960s historians have focused on Washington and DuBois\\\' personal differences and emphasized their conflicting agendas, to the detriment not only of a nuanced understanding of the richness of the issues that concerned the Negro world but also to the contributions of other major black intellectuals. Although there is no denying that both men exerted a tremendous impact on Negro thought, they alone did not frame the race\\\'s agenda nor did they represent the totality of opinion in the black intellectual world. This dissertation will show that Kelly Miller and other like-minded intellectuals played a pivotal role in shaping the discourse on the Negro problem in America and in voicing the concerns and hope of millions of voiceless Negroes. The son of a free Negro father and a slave mother, Kelly Miller was born a slave in Winnsboro, South Carolina, in 1863. Trained as a mathematician at Howard and Johns Hopkins universities, he became one of the race\\\'s premier sociologists, essayists, and newspaper columnists. A pioneer in the study of race relations and a theorist of racial uplift, Miller was representative of most black intellectuals and valued equally Washington and DuBois\\\' visions of racial progress. Miller and his cohorts never readily followed either Washington or DuBois as mere puppets of masters of the race game, instead they were pragmatists who supported whatever tactics---radical, moderate, or conservative---the circumstances dictated. Between 1895 and his death in 1939, Kelly Miller achieved national renown among his race as an intellectual who influenced its agenda and struggle toward equality. |
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