TY  - BOOK
AU  - Logan,Sadye Louise
TI  - The spirit of an activist: the life and work of Isaiah Dequincey Newman 
SN  - 9781611173284
AV  - F275.42.N49 S68 2014eb
U1  - 328.73/092 23
PY  - 2014///
CY  - Columbia, South Carolina
PB  - University of South Carolina Press
KW  - Newman, I. DeQuincy,
KW  - South Carolina
KW  - General Assembly
KW  - Biography
KW  - fast
KW  - African American legislators
KW  - Legislators
KW  - African American political activists
KW  - Methodist Church
KW  - Clergy
KW  - African Americans
KW  - Civil rights
KW  - History
KW  - 20th century
KW  - Civil rights movements
KW  - Parlementaires noirs américains
KW  - Caroline du Sud
KW  - Biographies
KW  - Activistes noirs américains
KW  - Église méthodiste
KW  - Clergé
KW  - Noirs américains
KW  - Droits
KW  - Histoire
KW  - 20e siècle
KW  - Mouvements des droits de l'homme
KW  - HISTORY
KW  - United States
KW  - State & Local
KW  - South (AL, AR, FL, GA, KY, LA, MS, NC, SC, TN, VA, WV)
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY
KW  - Political
KW  - POLITICAL SCIENCE
KW  - Government
KW  - Legislative Branch
KW  - Social Activists
KW  - Politics and government
KW  - Race relations
KW  - 1951-
KW  - Politique et gouvernement
KW  - Relations raciales
KW  - Electronic books
KW  - collective biographies
KW  - aat
KW  - lcgft
KW  - rvmgf
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index
N2  - "The Spirit of an Activist chronicles the life and distinguished career of Isaiah DeQuincey Newman (1911-1985), a Protestant pastor, civil rights leader, and South Carolina statesman. Known as a tenacious advocate for racial equality, Newman was also renowned for his diplomatic skills when working with opponents and his advocacy of nonviolent protest over confrontation. His leadership and dedication to peaceful change played an important role in the dismantling of segregation in South Carolina. The thirteen narratives in this volume by such diverse contributors as Richard W. Riley, William Saunders, Esther Nell Witherspoon, and Donald L. Fowler attest to Newman's impact on South Carolina. Editor Sadye L.M. Logan orchestrates these many contributions into an informative, moving, and sometimes passionate collage of Newman's challenges, triumphs, and small and significant everyday acts of courage. Through this collection Logan takes the reader on an extraordinary journey from Newman's childhood in Darlington County, South Carolina, to his death at the age of seventy-four. Along that journey Newman led the state's African Americans to join the Democratic Party and was a delegate to several Democratic Presidential Conventions. In 1983 he became the first African American South Carolinian elected to the State Senate in nearly a century. The Spirit of an Activist is essentially biographical, but it uses a diverse chorus of voices to capture Newman's rich and varied contributions in transforming South Carolina's rigid and unjust social systems. His quiet dignity and appeals to reason won him the confidence, and ultimately the support, of key white political and economic leaders. In effect Newman served both as chief strategist for the protest movement and as chief negotiator at the conference table, becoming the "unofficial liaison" between South Carolina's African American citizens and the state's white power structure. In the years that followed formal desegregation, Newman remained active in politics and became a trusted confidant of state leaders, many of whom are featured in this volume. The Spirit of an Activist includes a foreword by attorney and civil rights activist Vernon E. Jordan, Jr., and a prologue by South Carolina congressman James E. Clyburn, both personal friends of Newman who worked with him during the civil rights struggle. Contributors: Gloria Blackwell (Rackley), Tanya S. Brice, Millicent E. Brown, Wallace Brown, Sr., James E. Clyburn, G. Robert Cook, Carrie Crawford Washington, Donald L. Fowler, Karen Ross Grant, Vernon E. Jordan, Jr., Sadye L.M. Logan, Robert E. McNair, Josephine A. McRant, Jerome Noble, Matthew J. Perry, Jr., Harrison Reardon, Richard W. Riley, Wim Roefs, Alex Sanders, William "Bill" Saunders, Hiram Spain, Jr., James S. Thomas, Isaac "Ike" W. Williams, Esther Nell Knuckles Glymph Witherspoon"--
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