The Negro Wants First Class Citizenship Summary
In “The Negro wants First Class Citizenship,” Rayford Logan discusses the wants of African-Americans in the mid-twentieth century. Logan claims that it will take African-Americans another one hundred and sixty years to become first class citizens. He describes how blacks have been relegated to third class citizens, what blacks seek to feel like first class citizens, and how to get what they want. One of the first things that came to mind while reading Logan’s chapter is wondering if Logan would now believe blacks to be second class citizens and in eighty years finally becoming first class citizens. Then I noticed how this article coming out towards the end of World War Two and the Navy was just starting desegregation and Marine Corps just
getting around to allowing blacks to join. I never knew it took the Marine Corps so long to include blacks, also if I am not mistaken did the Navy not desegregate in the early 1900’s, then Woodrow Wilson re-segregated the Navy?