The University of North Carolina Press announced a new book, With Faith in God and Heart and Mind: A History of Omega Psi Phi Fraternity. Among the authors is Associate Dean of Graduate Studies at North Carolina Central University, Jim C. Harper II.
Harper is a Cook Center Faculty Affiliate and Inequality Studies Instructor, having participated in multiple iterations of the History of Inequality course.
This book offers a comprehensive, authoritative history of the historically Black fraternity Omega Psi Phi, Inc, emphasizing its vital role through multiple eras of the Black freedom struggle. The authors address both the individual work of its membership, which has included such figures as Carter G. Woodson, Bayard Rustin, Roy Wilkins, James L. Farmer Jr., Benjamin Elijah Mays, James Clyburn, Jesse Jackson, and Benjamin Crump, and the collective efforts of the fraternity’s leadership to encourage its general membership to contribute to the struggle in concrete ways over the years.
Learn more about the book here: With Faith in God and Heart and Mind
