Lift Every Voice
The NAACP and the Making of the Civil Rights Movement
New York : New Press, 2009.
Format: Book
Description: xii, 514 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm
Delivers a solidly researched examination of the NAACP's growth and influence, from its inception in 1909 to the present.
Contents:
Call to action -- Welding the hammers -- Going south: the NAACP in the World War I era -- Making a way: the "new Negro" in postwar America -- Radical visions: the depression years -- Crossroads: protest and politics in the New Deal era -- In the shadow of war: battlefields for freedom -- Justice now: claiming the postwar moment -- The beginning of the end: segregation must go -- "On the threshold of victory."
Subjects:
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People -- History.
Civil rights movements -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
African Americans -- Civil rights -- History -- 20th century.
United States -- Race relations.
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People -- History.
Civil rights movements -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
African Americans -- Civil rights -- History -- 20th century.
United States -- Race relations.
ISBN:
9781595584465 (hc. : alk. paper)
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Call Number | Location | Shelf Location | Status |
HISTORY North Am. US AF AM Civil Rights Sul | Northeast Indoors | Nonfiction | In |
Includes bibliographical references (pages [435]-497) and index.