Gentlemen: If I had the choosing of a motto for this meeting, I should select the words of the patriotic and humane Abraham Lincoln, “With malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right as God gives us to see the right.”
These words, so full of that charity which we should exercise toward each other, are especially suited to this day and time, when wrongs long condemned have at last been resisted and men are bleeding and dying in the busy center of our population, and all over the land other men, with heated passions, are assembling to denounce the needless slaughter of innocent men who, driven by want, have appealed to force for that justice which was otherwise refused to them…
I sympathize in this struggle with the strikers, and I feel sure that in this I have the cooperation of nine tenths of my fellow citizens. The poor man’s lot is at best a hard one. His hand to hand struggle with the wolf of poverty leaves him no leisure for any of the amenities of life, his utmost rewards are a scanty supply for food, scanty clothing, scanty shelter, and if perchance he escapes a pauper’s grave [he] is fortunate. Such a man deserves the aid and sympathy of all
Peter H. Clark educated generation of city's black teachers
Peter Humphries Clark fell by the wayside of history. The acclaimed teacher had been the leading African-American voice in Cincinnati during the mids. Contemporaries considered Clark the equal to Frederick Douglass as an intellectual and politician, but Clark’s shifting politics cost him the support of the city’s black community and, ultimately, his legacy.
Only recently has Clark’s place in black history been reexamined. “Clark deserves a seat at the table with the giants,” wrote Nikki M. Taylor in “America’s First Black Socialist: The Radical Life of Peter H. Clark,” the first in-depth biography of Clark.
Journalist Wendell P. Dabney, in his book “Cincinnati’s Colored Citizens,” called Clark “Cincinnati’s greatest colored product from the standpoints of intellectuality, courage and racial loyalty.”
Clark was born in Cincinnati in , the son of a former slave, and grew up amidst racial tension and violence in the city’s First Ward around Sixth and Broadway streets. He attended Cincinnati High School, the first black school in the state, at a time when formal education was a luxury for African Americans.
Clark’s
RESCUED FROM OBSCURITY: PETER H. CLARK, AMERICA&#;S FIRST BLACK SOCIALIST
Nikki M. Taylor. America’s First Black Socialist: The Radical Life of Peter H. Clark. Lexington: University of Kentucky Press, pages. Photos. Hardback $ Also available as an e-book.
Nikki Taylor’s America’s First Black Socialist: The Radical Life of Peter H. Clark rescues from obscurity the Cincinnati African American activist and politician who until now was known only to a handful of specialists in that city’s history or in African American or labor history. Taylor, who has constructed this biography from exhaustive research in local and national African American newspapers as well as the private papers of major and minor figures in black history, argues that Clark was an idealist and even “a visionary” (p. ) who late in life succumbed to political corruption and became a political and social conservative. Yet the evidence that Taylor presents suggests that from early on and throughout his life Clark was a political chameleon, a charlatan, and an opportunist, ever on the lookout for the main chance of political preferment and power, but who, because of his politi
America's First Black Socialist
Growing up in the free state of Ohio before the Civil War, Peter H. Clark dedicated himself to the abolitionist cause. In pursuit of equal citizenship for African Americans, Clark was at various times a loyal supporter of the Republican Party, and an advocate for the Democrats, and the country's first black socialist. Clark led the fight for African Americans' access to Ohio's public schools and became the first black principal in the state.
America's First Black Socialistdraws upon speeches, correspondence, and outside commentary to provide a balanced account of this influential yet neglected figure. Charting Clark's changing allegiances and ideologies from the antebellum era through the s, this comprehensive biography illuminates the life and legacy of an important activist while also highlighting the black radical tradition that helped democratize America.
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