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  2. Feb 28, 2021 · Greener published an essay titled The White Problem. In the introduction, he argued that whatever the problem, waas African Americans were better off solving it on their own. There was no Negro problem that it was upto whites to solve.

  3. Richard Theodore Greener (1844–1922) was a pioneering African-American scholar, excelling in elocution, philosophy, law and classics in the Reconstruction era. He broke ground as Harvard College's first Black graduate in 1870.

  4. Mar 21, 2012 · In one 1894 essay, he reframed the “Negro Problem” as “The White Problem.” In 1898, President McKinley appointed him U.S. commercial agent at Vladivostok in Siberia. Greener left his American family and took a Japanese common-law wife, with whom he had three children.

  5. Mar 14, 2012 · In 1894, Greener published one of his most notable essays, “The White Problem,” in which he recast the so-called “Negro Problem” as one of discrimination practiced by whites who needed to...

  6. Sep 17, 2020 · In an 1894 essay, he wrote that the so-called “Negro Problem” was actually the “White Problem,” attributing America’s racial divide to “white bigotry” rather than Black inferiority.

  7. Oct 4, 2018 · In 1894 Greener published “his eloquent and creative approach to race relations, ‘The White Problem.’” Making “a large splash,” he there blamed “white bigotry,” not Black inferiority, for America’s racial problems (121–22).

  8. The White Problem dramatizes the remarkable life of Richard Greener, the first African-American to graduate from Harvard and one of the leading black intellectuals of the post-Reconstruction era.

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