ammorris
12-20-2010, 11:46 PM
Reason has a post featuring an article about Rose Wilder Lane and her work to promote libertarian ideas to black audiences. Good ammunition for the next time someone tells you that only white males support individual liberty. Check it out:
http://reason.com/blog/2010/12/20/the-most-ambitious-effort-of-a#comments
The ideals of liberty, individualism, and self-reliance have rarely had a more enthusiastic champion than Rose Wilder Lane. A columnist and popular author, she held firm to these beliefs during the New Deal and World War II era, when faith in big government was at high tide. Through her book The Discovery of Freedom, she became a key transitional figure from the Old Right of the 1930s to the modern libertarian movement. Of equal fascination but much less known today is Lane’s sustained effort to promote laissez-faire ideas in columns for the Pittsburgh Courier, the largest black newspaper in the United States. Although Lane was white, she used this unusual venue creatively to promote the philosophy of limited government. During World War II especially, her outspoken activism generated headlines. She was not only investigated by the FBI for “subversive” remarks, but denounced by Walter Winchell, the leading nationally syndicated journalist and radio commentator in the country.
Here's the article:
http://www.as.ua.edu/history/html/faculty/Beito_Independent%20Review%20(3).pdf
http://reason.com/blog/2010/12/20/the-most-ambitious-effort-of-a#comments
The ideals of liberty, individualism, and self-reliance have rarely had a more enthusiastic champion than Rose Wilder Lane. A columnist and popular author, she held firm to these beliefs during the New Deal and World War II era, when faith in big government was at high tide. Through her book The Discovery of Freedom, she became a key transitional figure from the Old Right of the 1930s to the modern libertarian movement. Of equal fascination but much less known today is Lane’s sustained effort to promote laissez-faire ideas in columns for the Pittsburgh Courier, the largest black newspaper in the United States. Although Lane was white, she used this unusual venue creatively to promote the philosophy of limited government. During World War II especially, her outspoken activism generated headlines. She was not only investigated by the FBI for “subversive” remarks, but denounced by Walter Winchell, the leading nationally syndicated journalist and radio commentator in the country.
Here's the article:
http://www.as.ua.edu/history/html/faculty/Beito_Independent%20Review%20(3).pdf