TY - BOOK ID - 77896325 TI - Race harmony and black progress : Jack Woofter and the interracial cooperation movement PY - 2013 SN - 0253010667 9780253010667 9780253010599 0253010594 PB - Bloomington : Indiana University Press, DB - UniCat KW - Sociologists KW - African Americans KW - Afro-Americans KW - Black Americans KW - Colored people (United States) KW - Negroes KW - Africans KW - Ethnology KW - Blacks KW - Social conditions KW - Odum, Howard Washington, KW - Jones, Thomas Jesse, KW - Alexander, Will Winton, KW - Woofter, Thomas Jackson, KW - Alexander, W. W. KW - Woofter, Jack, KW - Commission on Interracial Cooperation. KW - Southern Regional Council KW - Commission on Inter-racial Cooperation KW - Southern States KW - Race relations KW - History KW - Black people UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:77896325 AB - Founded by white males, the interracial cooperation movement flourished in the American South in the years before the New Deal. The movement sought local dialogue between the races, improvement of education, and reduction of interracial violence, tending the flame of white liberalism until the emergence of white activists in the 1930's and after. Thomas Jackson (Jack) Woofter Jr., a Georgia sociologist and an authority on American race relations, migration, rural development, population change, and social security, maintained an unshakable faith in the ""effectiveness of cooperation rather ER -