La Citadelle

Layle Lane and Social Activism in Twentieth-Century America

By (author) Leonard L. Bethel

Publication date:

23 December 2014

Length of book:

202 pages

Publisher

UPA

ISBN-13: 9780761864745

Layle Lane was an educator, a social activist, and a political leader. She was a key organizer of the first march on Washington, D.C., which led to the creation of the Fair Employment Practices Act and Commission after President Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s executive order in 1941. Lane also played a major role in the March on Washington Movement, headed by A. Philip Randolph. In 1948, Lane encouraged President Harry Truman to desegregate the American military through her involvement in the movement. After taking on Washington, D.C., Lane ran for political office in New York City where she played a major role in the city’s social changes. During the 1950s, she ran a camp for inner city boys in Doylestown, Pennsylvania, to expose them to a way of life different from the city streets. It is on this property that a street presently runs through called Layle Lane—the first street named after an African American woman in Bucks County, Pennsylvania. La Citadelle chronicles the life of a real American hero who paved the way for future social activists.

Foreword
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Chapter 1: Reconstruction
Chapter 2: Childhood
Chapter 3: From Howard to New York
Chapter 4: Calvin Lane
Chapter 5: Dunbar
Chapter 6: La Citadelle
Chapter 7: Co-op
Chapter 8: Days of Triumph
Chapter 9: Companeros(as)
Chapter 10: The Heart Is the Teacher
Chapter 11: Layle
Bibliography
Index

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