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Their faces were black, but the elites were untrue.
In her classic study Exodusters: Black Migration to Kansas After Reconstruction (1977), Nell Irvin Painter argued that the proper function of black leadership should be to act as servants of the people. She pointed to the example of Benjamin "Pap" Singleton, who took up the cause of black folks in the Deep South who desired to escape the racial oppression of the post-Reconstruction period. (1) In contrast, some of the best known national black leaders urged black southerners to stand their ground. In her invaluable study of the early reparations movement, historian Mary Frances Berry informs us that a generation later, prominent black spokespersons were out of ...
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