22 Facts About George Schuyler

George Samuel Schuyler was an American writer, journalist, and social commentator known for his outspoken political conservatism after repudiating his earlier advocacy of socialism.

George Schuyler's maternal great-grandmother was an ethnic-Malagasy servant who married a ship captain from Saxe-Coburg in Bavaria.

George Schuyler spent his early years in Syracuse, New York, where his mother moved their family after she remarried.

George Schuyler lived for a period in the Phyllis Wheatley Hotel, run by Black nationalist Marcus Garvey's Universal Negro Improvement Association and attended UNIA meetings.

George Schuyler dissented from Garvey's philosophy, and began writing about his own perspectives.

In 1924, George Schuyler accepted an offer from the Courier to author a weekly column.

In 1926, George Schuyler became the Chief Editorial Writer at the Courier.

Langston Hughes's "The Negro Artist and the Racial Mountain", a response to George Schuyler's piece, appeared in the same magazine.

In 1931, George Schuyler published Black No More, which tells the story of a scientist who develops a process that turns black people to white, a book that has since been reprinted twice.

George Schuyler's mother had been religious but not a regular churchgoer.

George Schuyler's alleged exploits, career, death and resurrection can only be wholly swallowed by the same gullible folk who swarm into the sideshows at Coney Island; who believe that George Washington never told a lie; that Congressmen are exceptionally honorable; that the YMCA is something other than a training school for young babbits, or that the common people rule this country.

George Schuyler cleans up for this old myth in a very effective manner.

Between 1936 and 1938 George Schuyler published in the Pittsburgh Courier a weekly serial, which he later collected and published as a novel entitled Black Empire.

George Schuyler published the highly controversial book Slaves Today: A Story of Liberia, a novel about the slave trade created by former American slaves who settled Liberia in the 1820s.

George Schuyler's journalism appeared in such mainstream magazines as The Nation and Common Ground, and in such newspapers as The Washington Post and The New York Evening Post.

George Schuyler was only one of a few prominent African Americans to oppose FDR's incarceration of Japanese Americans in concentration camps.

George Schuyler dismissed accusations that Japanese Americans presented any genuine national security threat.

George Schuyler's conservatism was a counterpoint to the predominant liberal philosophy of the civil rights movement in the 1960s and 1970s.

In 1964, George Schuyler wrote a controversial opinion column in the ultraconservative Manchester Union Leader that opposed Martin Luther King Jr.

Outlets for George Schuyler's written work diminished until he was a more obscure figure by the time of his death in 1977.

George Schuyler wrote a syndicated column for the North American Newspaper Alliance.

George Schuyler married Josephine Lewis Cogdell, a liberal white Texan heiress and writer, in 1928.