The first collaborative effort by two of America's preeminent scholars of the black experience not only provides new and insightful biographical information on some of the nation's better known black leaders but also supplies pertinent information on hitherto neglected people. A highly readable volume which vividly portrays the diversity of modern black leaders from nationalists to integrationalists, from politicians and municipal leaders to educators, and from charismatic and skillful orators to diligent and driven institutionalists...