Lift every voice : the NAACP and the making of the civil rights movement
Title:
Lift every voice : the NAACP and the making of the civil rights movement
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Publication Date(s):
2009
ISBN:
9781595584465
Publication Information:
New York : New Press : Distributed by Perseus Distribution, 2009.
Physical Description:
xii, 514 p., [16] p. of plates : ill. ; 25 cm.
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."
Summary:
Delivers a solidly researched examination of the NAACP's growth and influence, from its inception in 1909 to the present.
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