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Author Sullivan, Patricia, 1950-

Title Lift every voice : the NAACP and the making of the civil rights movement / Patricia Sullivan.

Imprint New York : New Press, 2009.

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Location Call No. OPAC Message Status
 Axe 3rd Floor Stacks  323.1196073 Su55l 2009    ---  Available
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."
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (p. [435]-497) and index.
Summary Delivers a solidly researched examination of the NAACP's growth and influence, from its inception in 1909 to the present.
Subject 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)
1595584463 (hc. : alk. paper)

 
    
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