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The Right Man confirms, challenges, and analyzes the image of the South as a monolithic environment. Shepard often referred to the 1900 National Negro Business League conference in Boston as a source of a good deal of negativity about blacks. This convention attracted every major leadership, business, religious, and cultural organization in Amer- ica. Instead of this collective mass of leaders pushing forward, however, they were stymied and compromised by a white reporter who focused on Booker T. Washington's untimely joke about a farm animal instead of his economic self-help philosophy. Nevertheless, the delegates left the convention pumped up and determined to push forward to create a new society and a new people. Shepard, Young, and Henry P. Cheatham left determined to make Washington's philosophy of economic self-help a shield against increased segregation and disfranchisement.

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Henry Lewis Suggs is professor emeritus of American history at Clemson University. His academic concentrations are the American South, African American history, and African American journalism. Dr. Suggs earned his Ph.D. in American history from the University of Virginia in Charlottesville, Virginia in 1976. At Virginia, he was awarded the Martin Luther King, Jr. Woodrow Wilson Fellowship. His first teaching assignment was at Western Carolina University, Cullowhee, North Carolina. He was WCU's first African American faculty member. An academic scholarship was later named in his honor. He taught at Howard University, Washington, D.C., for a number of years, and was selected for the faculty of Clemson University in Clemson, South Carolina, in August 1983. In the late 1980s, Dr. Suggs became the first African American to serve as an intern at the Historical Office of the Office of the Secretary of Defense at the Pentagon. In 1992 he became the second African American faculty member at Clemson to be promoted to the rank of full professor.

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