ABSTRACT
Rooted in one's perception is the very essence of one's idea of universal realities, and inherent in one's perception is one's vision of reality, which in the intellectual community, often-times gets translated into academic and scholarly equivalent of the real world. James Q. Wilson developed his concepts externally to the black community and then imposed his externally derived concepts to find and explain "Negro problem." Therefore, their resultant portraits and conceptualizations of black urban politics were destined to be in sharp contrast. Wilson offered a ringside view to the world of local black politics in 1958 just as the branch was neutralized by south side machine leader, Congressman William L. Dawson. Harold F. Gosnell's findings not only arose out of his black community study, but offered a balanced interpretation of events. Outside of the major southern cities, Wilson thought he saw in the rural black belt regions the rise of radical black leadership as exemplified by Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party.
