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Redding, J. Saunders

J. Saunders Redding

Remembered as the first African American to hold a faculty position at an Ivy League university, J. Saunders Redding (1906-1988) first made his name as a historian, novelist, literary critic, and distinguished English professor at Morehouse, Hampton, and other historically black colleges.  He wrote widely in several genres over five decades, publishing To Make a Poet Black (1939), a groundbreaking study of African American literature in its social context; No Day of Triumph (1944), a midlife memoir of his southern origins; Stranger and Alone (1950), a novel of mixed-race identity and black higher education; and Cavalcade (1970), an inclusive anthology of African American literature co-edited by Arthur P. Davis.  They Came in Chains (1950) cast a critical eye on black nationalism.  The FBI cast a critical eye on what it considered the dangerous emotionalism of Redding’s writing and watched him closely from 1953 to 1968.

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Title
Redding, J. Saunders

Description
FBI documents studying J. Saunders Redding.

Creator
FBI

Publisher
FBI

Date
1953-1968

Rights
Material is in the public domain.

Format
text, 136 PDFs, 400 ppi

Language
English

Type
text

Coverage
1953-1968
Redding, J. Saunders