Art for equality : the NAACP's cultural campaign for civil rights / Jenny Woodley.

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"The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) is the nation's oldest civil rights organization, having dedicated itself to the fight for racial equality since 1909. While the group helped achieve substantial victories in the courtroom, the struggle for civil rights extended...

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Main Author: Woodley, Jenny, 1980-
Language:English
Published: Lexington, Kentucky : University Press of Kentucky, 2014.
Series:Civil rights and the struggle for Black equality in the twentieth century.
Subjects:
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People > History > 20th century.
Arts > Political aspects > United States > History > 20th century.
Anti-racism > United States > History > 20th century.
African Americans > Civil rights > History > 20th century.
Civil rights movements > United States > History > 20th century.
African American artists > History > 20th century.
African Americans in art > History > 20th century.
African Americans > Intellectual life > 20th century.
United States > Intellectual life > 20th century.
United States > Race relations > History > 20th century.
Physical Description:258 pages.
Format: Book
Contents:
  • Introduction: "The national mental attitude"
  • The birth of a cultural strategy
  • Representing the new Negro
  • Du Bois's crisis and the Black image on the page
  • "A union of art and propaganda"
  • White in Hollywood
  • Blacks, Reds, white
  • Conclusion: "The true picture of America".