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  America's Cup Inductees: George L. Schuyler
George L. Schuyler was a civil engineer with steam ferry and railroad interests.
George Schuyler fought against the idea, urging that the Cup be presented to the New York Yacht Club as an international trophy to be raced for by foreign clubs.
His idea was accepted, and George Schuyler was responsible for writing the terms for the conveyance of the Cup to the Club, later known as the Deed of Gift.
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  George Schuyler - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
George S. Schuyler (1895-1977), an African American writer known for his conservative views, was born in 1895 in Providence, Rhode Island, U.S. In 1912, Schuyler dropped out of school to join the US Army and soon rose to the rank of lieutenant.
George Samuel Schuyler was born on Providence, Rhode Island in 1895 as the son of a fl chef, spending much of his childhood in Syracuse, New York.
Schuyler served in Seattle and Hawaii before going AWOL after a Greek immigrant who was supposed to shine his shoes refused to do so because of his skin colour.
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 The Life Of George Washington: General Schuyler was a man eminently calculated to
General Schuyler was a man eminently calculated to sympathize with Washington in all his patriotic views and feelings, and became one of his most faithful coadjutors.
Schuyler, the aunt of the general; a lady of aristocratical station, revered throughout her neighborhood.
Schuyler were again allied in military service, but under a different banner; and recollections of past times must have given peculiar interest to their present intercourse.
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 Justice to George S. schuyler   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
In fact, Schuyler, who died in 1977, was one of the great anti-communists of the twentieth century — it would not be an exaggeration to call him the fl Whittaker Chambers (Schuyler, like Chambers, even began his career as a socialist) — as well as a remarkable journalist.
Schuyler was an intellect who would travel miles simply to kick around ideas with other intellectuals, and after 1917 the exciting, if insane, ideas that were percolating were socialist ideas.
Schuyler rewrote the piece as "The Phantom American Negro," emphasizing in the new draft that the media were presenting the American public with of fls as perpetually aggrieved, angry, rebellious, and revolutionary.
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 Hoover Institution - Policy Review - Justice of George S. Schuyler
In fact, Schuyler, who died in 1977, was one of the great anti-communists of the twentieth century — it would not be an exaggeration to call him the fl Whittaker Chambers (Schuyler, like Chambers, even began his career as a socialist) — as well as a remarkable journalist.
Schuyler was an intellect who would travel miles simply to kick around ideas with other intellectuals, and after 1917 the exciting, if insane, ideas that were percolating were socialist ideas.
Schuyler rewrote the piece as "The Phantom American Negro," emphasizing in the new draft that the media were presenting the American public with of fls as perpetually aggrieved, angry, rebellious, and revolutionary.
www.hoover.org /publications/policyreview/3487202.html   (2997 words)

  
 George Samuel Schuyler (1895-1977)
Schuyler's persona seems to be an intelligent but "plain folks" fl man, literate and unafraid to speak the truth.
On an even larger scale, Schuyler, as noted before, was a satirist in the tradition of Juvenal, Swift, and Twain, all of whom he studied and admired.
Schuyler's audience was primarily fl--the essay appeared in a fl publication that was read by the very racial leaders Schuyler lampoons in the first part of his essay.
www.georgetown.edu /faculty/bassr/heath/syllabuild/iguide/schuyler.html   (1080 words)

  
 George Schuyler Biography and Summary   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
George S. Schuyler, Pittsburgh Courier associate editor, columnist, and reporter, was one of the first fl journalists to gain national prominence in the twentieth century.
George S. Schuyler(1895- 1977), an African American writer known for his conservative views, was born in 1895 in Providence, Rhode Island, U.S..
In 1912, Schuyler dropped out of school to join the US Army and soon rose to the rank of lieutenant.
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 George S. Schuyler Biography / Profile
Schuyler was later involved with Marcus Garvey’s Universal Negro Improvement Association, but became disillusioned with Garvey’s plan to return to Africa.
Schuyler often spoke publicly on political and cultural issues, and by the 1920’s, he had joined a fl socialist group, Friends of Negro Freedom, and had accepted a job on the staff of the organization’s official magazine, The Messenger.
Schuyler’s literary identity evolves from his career as a journalist and from his deep respect for his mother’s ideas and values.
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 George S. Schuyler, All-American - Nicholas Stix - MensNewsDaily.com™
George Samuel Schuyler was born in 1895 in Providence, Rhode Island, the son of a chef, and grew up in Syracuse, New York.
Schuyler’s anti-communism would become more and more influential in his thinking, just as fl Americans became less and less hostile towards socialism in general, and leading communists, in particular, as attested to by the acceptance of the circle around the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.
Schuyler was denying that fls and whites lived in fundamentally different cultures and would produce fundamentally different art.
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 Hamilton-Schuyler Family Papers   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
George Schuyler's daughter, Louisa Lee Schuyler, was born on October 26, 1837, the second of three children.
Miss Schuyler championed the cause of humane care of the insane, and in 1890, arranged for the transfer of insane inmates from county almshouses to state hospitals.
George L. Schuyler's care of his family's financial affairs is documented in items 10 and 11, one of these written to the cousin who later became his wife.
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 Philippa Schuyler - I.S. #383
At four, Schuyler was composing, and she performed at the age of five on the radio.
Despite her abilities, Schuyler's parents shunned the word prodigy and attributed her talent to "hybrid genetics, proper nutrition, and intensive education." Her diet consisted exclusively of raw foods as a result of her mother's steadfast belief that cooking destroyed vitamin content.
While the country was awed by her genius, Philippa Schuyler's visibility and fame were significantly heightened by her father's media connections as well as his own regular coverage of her exemplary progress in the Pittsburgh Courier.
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 WashingtonPost.com: Composition in Black and White
George Schuyler, who was still recovering from the lingering effects of malaria contracted while on assignment in Liberia earlier that year, stayed at home until eight, when he had to leave to fulfill a series of lecture engagements, beginning at Brookwood College in Katonah, New York.
Schuyler was a steady contributor of editorials and features to the Pittsburgh Courier, one of America's oldest fl newspapers; he wrote for H. Mencken's American Mercury and for the Saturday Evening Post; he freelanced successfully for other magazines and was often invited to lecture.
George's homecomings were infrequent during that first year, but he could at least share with his wife, in a bittersweet way, the daily progress of his little girl through the scrapbooks--when she first uttered"mama,"when she first stood up on her own, when she first laughed.
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 George S. Schuyler: Black Conservative, Intellectual, and Iconoclast by Troy Kickler
Although Mencken was not color-blind, he decided to mentor Schuyler because the two had three things in common: respect for the middle class, a loathing for socialism, and a dislike for the South.
After World War II, Schuyler evolved into an iconoclastic conservative, or so Oscar R. Williams argues in George S. Schuyler: Portrait of a Black Conservative, although he never defines conservatism and leaves readers with the impression that post-war conservatism is strictly nationalism and the resistance to integration, or some combination of both.
Schuyler advocated racial integration (he married a white woman with whom he had an interracial daughter), but he preferred gradual social change.
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 George and Maude Buyce Schuyler of Gloversville - 3 war veteran
George and Maude were both baptized in the Emmanuel Baptist Church of Gloversville, NY, on 16 Jun 1940, which was rather unusual at their age.
I very quickly observed that George was not prone to telling "sea stories"; he simply related facts and happenings that were burned into his memory so long ago.
In his living room at home, George had an ashtray [not to be used] that was made form the metal of a Japanese Zero that was shot down on Bougainville.
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 Extravagant Crowd | Philippa Duke Schuyler
Known as “the baby genius of the Harlem Renaissance,” Philippa Duke Schuyler was a child prodigy who became quite famous for her youthful accomplishments as a composer and pianist.
Her father, George Schuyler, was a prominent and controversial African-American journalist.
Schuyler’s parents dedicated themselves to her success: Josephine Cogdell coached her daughter, pushed her to work hard, and acted as her agent; George Schuyler promoted Philippa Duke Schuyler in his newspaper columns and actively sought recognition for her successes in the white press.
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 PAL: George Schuyler (1895-1977)
Schuyler was gaining a reputation; and his work caught the attention of Ira F. Lewis -- the manager of the Pittsburgh Courier had a job with that paper until 1966 (policy); Schuyler worked in publication almost his entire life.
Schuyler did not completely aggravate everyone, and in fact, he pleased the fl community with his talent; from 1937 to 1944 he was the business manager of the NAACP, which he never hesitated to criticize (policy).
George Schuyler died in New York in 1977.
web.csustan.edu /english/reuben/pal/chap9/schuyler.html   (1599 words)

  
 ESR | February 23, 2004 | George S. Schuyler and Black History Month
George Samuel Schuyler was born in 1895 in Providence, Rhode Island, the son of a chef, and grew up in Syracuse, New York.
Schuyler's anti-communism would become more and more influential in his thinking, just as fl Americans became less and less hostile towards socialism in general, and leading communists, in particular, as attested to by the acceptance of the circle around the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.
Schuyler mocked fls' obsession with wanting to be white, whites' obsession with fls, and the way fl leaders such as DuBois and Marcus Garvey exploited the fl masses.
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 Carver And Schuyler: Teachers Of Lessons That Hold True Today
One American, notable for his faith, is George Washington Carver, who was born around the time the Civil War came to a close, only to have his father killed in an accident while he was still an infant.
Schuyler delivered a talk in 1950 called "The Negro Question Without Propaganda" that still stands today as an effective rebuke to today's multiculturalists who are so intent on disparaging the American system as one that deserves condemnation for being racist.
Schuyler said: "Actually, the progressive improvement of interracial relations in the United States is the most flattering of the many examples of the superiority of the free American civilization over the soul-shackling reactionism of totalitarian regimes.
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 A Different Drummer: Nicholas Stix
Schuyler had never attended college, much less journalism school, and yet he was arguably the greatest American journalist of his day, of any color.
Schuyler, who was quite the celebrity in fl America, personally engaged pop historian Joel A. Rogers to contribute the long-running series on fl history that would become the Courier's most popular feature.
The Times' silence regarding Schuyler was not surprising, given that the bosses of the "newspaper of record" have made it their business — with the cooperation of "their fls" — to alternately ignore, impugn, and misrepresent Schuyler's life and work.
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 BLACK No More : A Novel | Buy cheap Book with low price
George Schuyler worked from a few basic premises: Most of humanity is a damned sight closer to the Devil than to the angels; most men are con artists; and the few who truly believe in anything are even worse!
For Schuyler, fl nationalist rhetoric was merely a smokescreen to obscure its practitioners' class contempt for their erstwhile constituents, whose pockets they were busy picking.
Schuyler may have been a conservative, but his novel is as forward-think today as it had been decades ago.
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 Books on NRO Weekend
George Samuel Schuyler (1895-1977) was the most prolific, influential journalist of the golden age of what was known as the Negro press, and one of the most important journalists America has ever produced.
Although contemptuous of all racial chauvinism, the mercurial Schuyler's own nationalistic feelings sometimes bubbled to the surface, as when, in 1936, Mussolini invaded Ethiopia, and he called for a fl expeditionary force to wreak revenge on the Fascists.
Or to raise a monument to Alger Hiss.
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George Schuyler worked from a few basic premises: Most оf humanity is a damned sight closer to the Devil than to the angels; most men are con artists; and the few who truly believe in anything are even worse!
Schuyler may have been a conservative, but his novel is as forward-think today as it had been decades ago.
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 TRAGIC MULATTO GIRL WONDER: The paradoxical life of Philippa Duke Schuyler by Lise Funderburg
(Her father was the conservative fl journalist and satirical novelist George Schuyler; her mother, a rebellious white Southern belle who married across the color line.) She seemed trapped at times by her talents and the constraints of relentlessly watchful parents whose aspirations for her were often suffocating.
As Talalay found in her research into George Schuyler's papers, to this day the manuscript has not one, but three blank pieces of paper taped over each of the five pages concerning Philippa.
From her relationships with her parents and with the many men who were first drawn to but ultimately repelled by her, as well as in her profound lack of friendships, she obviously did not possess social skills and psychological insight to match her intellect.
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 Prodigy and Prejudice - New York Times
THIS enthralling, heartbreaking book restores to attention Philippa Schuyler, child prodigy of the 1930's, pianist, composer, Harlem's Mozart, "the Shirley Temple of American Negroes." Her father was George Schuyler, a well-known fl journalist.
Her mother was Josephine Cogdell Schuyler, the white daughter of a Texas rancher.
She had contributed pieces to The Messenger, a left-wing fl publication whose editor was George Schuyler.
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 George S. Schuyler, All-American - Nicholas Stix - MensNewsDaily.com™
Though Schuyler joined the Socialist Party, would be identified early in his career with socialism, and would experiment with some allied ideas, such as cooperatives, he would never be a true believer, and would always be an anti-communist.
In 1936, Schuyler called for a fl expeditionary force to free Ethiopia from the grip of the Italian Fascists, who under Mussolini had attacked the country in October, 1935, and successfully invaded and annexed it in May, 1936.
Schuyler’s career at the Courier ended in 1966, with the purchase of the newspaper by John H. Sengstacke, the biggest owner of negro newspapers, who also owned the Chicago Defender.
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 Can Science Do Something About Race?   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
Schuyler imagines that in the 1930s most American fls become white, voluntarily.
Schuyler is satirical and cynical (like H.L. Mencken, who was fond of him), but he's also serious.
Williams recalls that Schuyler was fanatically anit-communist, and also anti-everything else.
www.sdsmt.edu /student-orgs/tfs/reading/freethought/race.html   (437 words)

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