The New Crisis in Leadership Among Negroes

Since the coming of freedom in the United States, there have been certain tensions developing between different types of Negro leaders, which may well be termed crises. These crisis situations have been modified and determined by the general relationship of Negroes to the larger American society. Indeed, leadership among Negroes is peculiarly conditioned by the fact that Negroes are neither an autonomous people nor one conceivably destined to become so. Their leadership, therefore, has frequently been assumed by white persons. We may thus think of a leader among Negroes as any person who defines the common cause of the Negro people and makes significant suggestions to them for action in the resolution of that cause

Political science · Race, History, and American Society

• Capitalism, racism, and the struggle for democracy

  George Snedeker•Socialism and Democracy•1988

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