Black Manhood and Community Building in North Carolina, 1900–1930

Contents

Contents List of Figures xi Acknowledgments xiii Introduction 1 1. What Can He Do?: African-American Churchmen Confront the Black Women’s Era 17 2. Solving the Boy Problem: Fashioning Boys into Respectable Race Men 52 3. “Badge of a man”: Gender and Fraternity in North Carolina’s Black Secret Society 104 4. “Let the white man put himself in the negro’s place”: Black Men Navigate the Terrain of Race Ambassador 130 Conclusion 167 Notes 173 Bibliography 221 Index 237 ...