Download or read book William Hooper Councill: The Greatest Negro the Race Ever Produced written by Eddie E. Davis (Jr.) and published by . This book was released on 2013-11-01 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: William Hooper Councill became the first ex-slave in America to found and to become president of a school for higher learning, known today as Alabama A&M University, opening the door for Booker T. Washington to teach in Alabama six years later. Multifaceted, Councill became an editor of his own newspaper, an author, a religious leader, a famed orator, a politician, a lawyer, and a civil rights pioneer. Councill stood his ground on the battlefield of prejudicial practices years before Homer Plessy and Rosa Parks. According to former Secretary of Alabama Frank Julian, Councill was ?the greatest man of the Negro race?. Undoubtedly the greatest benefactor of his own people that the Negro race has ever produced.? This compelling biography reveals how conditions were in the segregated South and revisits the strategies Councill used in order to help elevate his race, while also attempting to mend the racial divide among all men in the country he loved. Read and learn about William Hooper Councill, a man whom the world once knew; explore his story of sacrifice and witness the impact that his work generated, that is still producing today.