ISBN: 9781595585448 - lift every voice: the naacp and the making of the civil rights movement (10 Ergebnisse)

Paperback. Zustand: Good. The first major history of America's oldest civil rights organisation is destined to become a classic in the field. When it was founded in 1909, The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People was an elite organisation of white reformers. By 1918, it had become a mass organisation with predominantly black members. Sullivan unearths the little-known early decades of NAACP's activism, telling startling stories of personal bravery, legal brilliance and political manoeuvring, before moving on to the critical post-war era.…

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Paperback. Zustand: Brand New. reprint edition. 544 pages. 9.10x6.00x1.40 inches. In Stock.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - An epic narrative of the struggle against injustice, hailed as "the definitive history of the NAACP" by Henry Louis Gates Jr."Superb new history . . . elegantly written. A compelling, exhaustively researched account that sweeps across much of the last century." Jonathan Rosenberg, The Christian Science MonitorA "civil rights Hall of Fame" (Kirkus) that was published to remarkable praise in conjunction with the NAACP's Centennial Celebration, Lift Every Voice is a momentous history of the struggle for civil rights told through the stories of men and women who fought inescapable racial barriers in the North as well as the Southkeeping the promise of democracy alive from the earliest days of the twentieth century to the triumphs of the 1950s and 1960s.Historian Patricia Sullivan unearths the little-known early decades of the NAACP's activism, telling startling stories of personal bravery, legal brilliance, and political maneuvering by the likes of W.E.B. Du Bois, Mary White Ovington, Walter White, Charles Houston, Ella Baker, Thurgood Marshall, and Roy Wilkins. In the critical postwar era, following a string of legal victories culminating in Brown v. Board of Education, the NAACP knocked out the legal underpinnings of the segregation system and set the stage for the final assault on Jim Crow.A sweeping and dramatic story woven deep into the fabric of American history"history that helped shape America's consciousness, if not its soul" (Booklist)Lift Every Voice offers a timeless lesson on how people, without access to the traditional levers of power, can create change under seemingly impossible odds. …

Zustand: New. &Uumlber den AutorPatricia Sullivan teaches history at the University of South Carolina and is a fellow in the W.E.B. Du Bois Institute at Harvard University. Her books include Days of Hope: Race and Democracy in the New .