Augie Meier was a very interesting guy -- a white guy who taught at Fisk and Morgan State and other HBCU's for many years (finally he gave up and went to Kent State). As a leftist and a political agitator (in addition to being a scholar), Meier was once picked by his students at Fisk (I believe) to debate the integrationist side against Malcolm X, who had come to visit -. Most of the book contains selections of his political writings -- Old Left 1950's stuff. But the introduction is autophiographical and is of interest. The book is available here:
http://books.google.com/books/about/A_White_Scholar_and_the_Black_Community.html?id=vn_MlpkPjtsC
His scholarly work, mainly Negro Thought in America, 1880-1915 (1963), looks solid -- though I've only scanned the book:
Here's his bio:
http://www.oberlin.edu/archive/holdings/finding/RG30/SG74/biography.html