Abstract
In his distinguished recent study, Negro Thought America, 1880-19 1 5, August Meier carefully analyzes the attitude of Negro leaders toward radical agrarian and labor movements and, with the exception of T. Thomas Fortune and one or two others, finds little interest these movements among Negro intellectuals before 1890.1 A striking but neglected exception to this general pattern is Peter H. Clark, who was principal of the Colored High School Cincinnati, Ohio. In 1877, he joined the Workingmen's Party of the United States (founded Philadelphia 1876) and publicly espoused the cause of democratic socialism. Clark's career as a pioneer Negro educator is described by L. D. Easton an essay published 1900.2 His record of public service, furthermore, according to Wendell P. Dabney, made him Cincinnati's most famous colored citizen and its outstanding Negro in school and public life.3 As this brief note and the document suggest and until further research is done, it is probable that Clark also can be regarded as the first American Negro socialist.
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