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Historical Highway MarkersDr. Gordon Blaine Hancock (1884-1970)SA-131
Gordon B. Hancock, born to formerly enslaved parents, was a leader in the struggle for racial equality in the decades before the Civil Rights Movement. A Harvard-educated sociologist, he taught at Virginia Union University for more than 30 years. In frequent speeches and in a weekly column published in more than 100 Black newspapers, he promoted Black economic solidarity and self-help. In 1942 he helped organize and was director of a conference of Southern Black leaders that issued the Durham Manifesto, a call for interracial cooperation to achieve social reforms and end racial injustice. Hancock was pastor of Moore Street Baptist Church in Richmond from 1925 to 1963.
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References/Bibliographic Citation: Raymond Gavins, “Gordon Blaine Hancock (1884–1970),” Encyclopedia Virginia (Virginia Humanities, 22 Dec. 2021). Raymond Gavins, The Perils and Prospects of Southern Black Leadership: Gordon Blaine Hancock, 1884-1970 (Durham and London: Duke University Press, 1977). J. Douglas Smith, Managing White Supremacy: Race, Politics, and Citizenship in Jim Crow Virginia (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2002). John Egerton, Speak Out Now Against the Day: The Generation Before the Civil Rights Movement in the South (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1994). Norfolk Journal and Guide, 1 Aug. 1970. Richmond Times-Dispatch, 26, 28 July 1970. |