{"id":49205,"date":"2016-09-25T21:22:03","date_gmt":"2016-09-25T21:22:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=49205"},"modified":"2022-02-23T16:03:36","modified_gmt":"2022-02-23T16:03:36","slug":"t-thomas-fortune-the-afro-american-agitator-a-collection-of-writings-1880-1928","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=49205","title":{"rendered":"T. Thomas Fortune, the Afro-American Agitator: A Collection of Writings, 1880-1928"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/upf.com\/book.asp?id=ALEXAF06\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em><strong>T. Thomas Fortune, the Afro-American Agitator: A Collection of Writings, 1880-1928<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/upf.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">University Press of Florida<\/a><br \/>\n2008-06-15<br \/>\n342 pages<br \/>\n6 x 9<br \/>\nHardcover ISBN 13: 978-0-8130-3232-0<br \/>\nPaper ISBN 13: 978-0-8130-3548-2<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/afs.ku.edu\/shawn-alexander\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Shawn Leigh Alexander<\/strong><\/a>, Associate Professor of African-American Studies<br \/>\n<em>University of Kansas<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/upf.com\/book.asp?id=ALEXAF06\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com\/images\/I\/41drR7-GOEL.jpg\" width=\"300\" border=\"0\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Born into slavery, <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Timothy_Thomas_Fortune\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">T. Thomas Fortune<\/a> was known as the dean of African American journalism by the time of his death in the early twentieth century. The editorship of three prominent black newspapers&#8211;the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/The_New_York_Globe\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>New York Globe<\/em><\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/New_York_Freeman\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>New York Freeman<\/em><\/a>, and <em><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/New_York_Age\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">New York Age<\/a><\/em>&#8211;provided Fortune with a platform to speak against racism and injustice.<\/p>\n<p>For nearly five decades his was one of the most powerful voices in the press. Contemporaries such as <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Ida_B._Wells\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Ida B. Wells<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/W._E._B._Du_Bois\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">W.E.B. Du Bois<\/a>, and <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Booker_T._Washington\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Booker T. Washington<\/a> considered him an equal, if not a superior, in social and political thought. Today&#8217;s histories often pass over his writings, in part because they are so voluminous and have rarely been reprinted. Shawn Leigh Alexander&#8217;s anthology will go a long way toward rectifying that situation, demonstrating the breadth of Fortune&#8217;s contribution to black political thought at a key period in American history.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>T. Thomas Fortune, the Afro-American Agitator: A Collection of Writings, 1880-1928 University Press of Florida 2008-06-15 342 pages 6 x 9 Hardcover ISBN 13: 978-0-8130-3232-0 Paper ISBN 13: 978-0-8130-3548-2 Shawn Leigh Alexander, Associate Professor of African-American Studies University of Kansas Born into slavery, T. Thomas Fortune was known as the dean of African American journalism [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,11,1196,8,20],"tags":[25038,25037,9833,9835,5799],"class_list":["post-49205","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anthologies","category-books","category-literary-criticism","category-media-archive","category-usa","tag-shawn-alexander","tag-shawn-leigh-alexander","tag-t-thomas-fortune","tag-timothy-thomas-fortune","tag-university-press-of-florida"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49205","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=49205"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49205\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":63225,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49205\/revisions\/63225"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=49205"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=49205"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=49205"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}