Race Harmony and Black Progress: Jack Woofter and the Interracial Cooperation Movement

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notes Introduction 1. Woofter, The Basis of Racial Adjustment, 23. 2. moton, What the Negro Thinks, 260–61. 3. dykeman and stokely, Seeds of Southern Change; dykeman, Prophet of Plenty; Brazil, Howard W. Odum; salmond, Southern Rebel; salmond, Miss Lucy of the CIO; elna c. green, “Introduction,” in Hammond, In Black and White, vii–liii; Fitzpatrick, Gerald W. Johnson; leidholdt, Editor for Justice. 4. mckee, Sociology and the Race Problem, 131. see also Rees, Shades of Difference, 91–92, and Roediger, Working toward Whiteness, 23–24. 5. samuel c. mitchell, “The nationalization of southern sentiment,” 109, 112. dennis, Lessons in Progress, 44, 161–91, 192–216. Thomas Pearce Bailey, Race Orthodoxy in the South. 6. stanfield, “The ‘negro Problem’ within and beyond the Institutional nexus of Pre–World War I sociology,” 195–96. 7. grantham, South in Modern America, 147. see also grantham, “Regional Imagination,” 3–32. For examples of citations of Woofter, see Wiese, “Blacks in the suburban and Rural Fringe,” 158, 166–70; Badger, Prosperity Road, 240; Brundage, Under Sentence of Death, 7; killian, White Southerners, 93–94; lowry, “Population and Race in mississippi,” 576, 588. during and after World War II, Woofter’s demographic studies helped develop federal welfare provision and planning for the postwar baby boom. In the 1950s, he undertook population studies for the central Intelligence agency. see ellen Winston, “Thomas Jackson Woofter,” 6. 8. aiken, William Faulkner and the Southern Landscape, 225. see also aiken, Cotton Plantation South Since the Civil War, 35–39, 52–53. aiken describes Woofter’s work as “the apogee of a genre of technical plantation studies.” 9. Woofter, Negro Migration, 8. 10. Platt, History of Sociological Research Methods in America, 32, 76–77. see also turner, “does Funding Produce Its effects?,” 213–26. 11. singal, The War Within, 112. 12. Woofter, The Basis of Racial Adjustment, 13. 13. moton, What the Negro Thinks, 266. 14. stanfield, Philanthropy and Jim Crow, 9–10. 15. Brewer, Review of Southern Race Progress, 161–63. 16. Howard W. odum to leonard outhwaite, oct. 27, 1927, box 62, laura spelman Rockefeller memorial collection (lsRm), Rockefeller archive center (Rac), sleepy Hollow, n.y. myrdal, An American Dilemma, 456, 466, 1441–83. 17. gruening, These United States, 322–45. du Bois, “georgia: Invisible empire state,” 66. godshalk, Veiled Visions, 157–61. 18. morton sosna defined liberals as “white southerners who perceived that there was a serious maladjustment of race relations in the south, who recognized that the existing system resulted in grave injustices for blacks, and who either actively endorsed or engaged in programs to aid southern blacks in their fight against lynching, disfranchisement, segregation, and blatant discrimination in such areas as education, employment, and law enforcement.” sosna, In 245 246 | Notes to Pages 7–13 Search of the Silent South, viii. notable white liberals included Will W. alexander, Willis d. Weatherford, John J. eagan, Thomas Jesse Jones, anson Phelps stokes, James Hardy dillard, george Foster Peabody, Howard odum, and Thomas Jackson Woofter Jr. Black associates included Robert Russa moton, John Hope, Isaac Fisher, george e. Haynes, and Forrester B. Washington . 19. on the “tendential unity” of social movements, see Barker et al., “leadership matters: an Introduction,” in Leadership and Social Movements, 4. 20. Thomas Jesse Jones to R. R. moton, march 25, 1920, box 14, moton Family Papers, manuscript division, library of congress (lc), Washington, d.c.; edward t. Ware to t. J. Woofter , nov. 15, 1921, box 6, series vII, atlanta University collection, auburn avenue Research library of african american culture and History, atlanta, ga. 21. tindall, “southern negroes since Reconstruction,”341. 22. tindall, Emergence of the New South, 175. 23. White, Liberty and Justice for All, xiii. see also goodstein, “Rare alliance,” 245. 24. see Judson, “solving the girl Problem,” 152–73; dowden-White, “to see Past the differences to the Fundamentals,” 174–203; Robertson, Christian Sisterhood, Race Relations, and the YWCA; Frystak, Our Minds on Our Freedom, 33–37; greenwood, Bittersweet Legacy; Joan marie Johnson, “The shape of the movement to come,” 201–23; Higginbotham, Righteous Discontent , passim. 25. Jacquelyn dowd Hall, Revolt against Chivalry, 59. 26. gilmore, Gender and Jim Crow, xix, 45–59. Brooks,”Unlikely allies,” 120–52. 27. montgomery, Politics of Education in the New South, 61. 28. Hammond, In Black and White, 28. 29. montgomery, Politics of Education in the New South, 129, 232. see also kuhn et al., Living Atlanta, 249–51. 30. murphy, Problems of the Present South, 233. Hugh c. Bailey, Liberalism in the New...