The Spirit of an Activist: The Life and Work of I. DeQuincey Newman

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vii Contents List of Illustrations ix Foreword xi Vernon E. Jordan, Jr. Acknowledgments xv Chronology xvii Prologue 1 Congressman James E. Clyburn Introduction 4 Isaiah DeQuincey Newman: The Servant Leader 8 Sadye L. M. Logan Making the Impossible Possible: Building Alliance between Religion and Politics 47 Sadye L. M. Logan and Josephine A. McRant The NAACP Years: Newman as South Carolina Field Director 63 Millicent E. Brown Leadership in Black and White: Newman’s Struggles with Race and Politics 83 Wim Roefs A Vision for Change: Community Planning and Development in Rural South Carolina 101 Wallace Brown, Sr., G. Robert Cook, Carrie Crawford Washington, and Karen Ross Grant viii Contents Impacting the State’s Economy: Challenging Discriminatory Practices in Employment 112 Tanya S. Brice and Sadye L. M. Logan Narratives: I. DeQuincey Newman Remembered 125 Gloria Blackwell (Rackley) 126 Donald L. Fowler 128 Robert E. McNair 130 Jerome Noble 132 Matthew J. Perry, Jr. 135 Harrison Reardon 139 Richard W. Riley 142 Alex Sanders 144 William “Bill” Saunders 149 Hiram Spain, Jr. 150 James S. Thomas 153 Isaac “Ike” W. Williams 155 Esther Nell Knuckles Glymph Witherspoon 159 Conclusion: Newman’s Vision of a “Just” South Carolina 161 Sadye L. M. Logan Appendix: Time Line of the Central Jurisdiction and Events Leading Up to Its Creation 175 Bibliography 177 Contributors 189 Index 193 ...