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

Delivers a solidly researched examination of the NAACP's growth and influence, from its inception in 1909 to the present.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Sullivan, Patricia, 1950-
Language:English
Published: New York : New Press : Distributed by Perseus Distribution, 2009.
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.
Physical Description:xii, 514 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm
Format: Book
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."