A study of racial relations in Tennessee during years of increasing migration of Blacks from the Deep South and of ideological competition between the followers of Booker T. Washington and W. E. B. Dubois. An important contribution to Black history.
Lester C. Lamon is professor emeritus of history and former interim chancellor of IU South Bend. Lamon earned a B.A. and M.A.T. from Vanderbilt University and Ph.D. from the University of North Carolina. Lamon served as the interim chancellor of IUSB from 1995 to 1997.