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Long is the way and hard : one hundred years of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), edited by Kevern Verney and Lee Sartain ; foreword by Adam Fairclough

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Summary
Celebrating its one-hundredth anniversary in February 2009, the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) has been the leading and best-known African American civil rights organization in the United States. It has played a major, and at times decisive, role in most of the important developments in the twentieth century civil rights struggle. Drawing on original and previously unpublished scholarship from leading researchers in the United States, Britain, and Europe, this important collection of sixteen original essays offers new and invaluable insights into the work and achievements of the association
Language
eng
Work
Publication
Extent
xxviii, 313 pages
Contents
  • Leading from the back : Roy Wilikins's leadership of the NAACP
  • Yvonne Ryan
  • Uneasy alliance : the NAACP and Martin Luther King
  • Peter J. Ling
  • The
  • NAACP and the challenges of 1960s radicalism
  • Simon Hall
  • The Falls Church Colored Citizens Protective League and the establishment of Virginia's first rural branch of the NAACP
  • Beverly Bunch-Lyons and Nakeina Douglas
  • "To hope till hope creates" : the NAACP in Alabama, 1913-1945
  • The NAACP in historiographical perspective
  • Kevern Verney
  • "It's worth one dollar to get rid of us" : middle-class persistence and the NAACP in Louisiana, 1915-1945
  • Lee Sartain
  • "in no event shall a Negro be eligible" : the NAACP takes on the Texas all-white primary, 1923-1944
  • Charles L. Zelden
  • Tensions in the relationship between local and national NAACP branches : the example of Detroit, 1919-1941
  • Patrick Flack
  • The Chicago NAACP : a century of challenge, triumph, and inertia
  • Christopher Robert Reed
  • The NAACP in California, 1914-1950
  • Kevern Verney and Lee Sartain
  • Jonathan Watson
  • "Your work is the most important, but without branches there can be no national work" : Cleveland's branch of the NAACP, 1929-1968
  • Andrew M. Fearnley
  • "They say ... New York is not worth a d----- to them" : the NAACP in Arkansas, 1918-1971
  • John A. Kirk
  • "All shadows are dark" : Walter White, racial identity, and national politics
  • Simon Topping
  • In Harlem and Hollywood : the NAACP's cultural campaigns, 1910-1950
  • Jenny Woodley
  • "A gigantic battle to win men's minds" : the NAACP's public relations department and post-Brown propaganda
  • George Lewis
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9781557289094
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Label
Long is the way and hard : one hundred years of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP)
Title
Long is the way and hard
Title remainder
one hundred years of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP)
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edited by Kevern Verney and Lee Sartain ; foreword by Adam Fairclough
Contributor
Subject
Genre
Language
eng
Summary
Celebrating its one-hundredth anniversary in February 2009, the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) has been the leading and best-known African American civil rights organization in the United States. It has played a major, and at times decisive, role in most of the important developments in the twentieth century civil rights struggle. Drawing on original and previously unpublished scholarship from leading researchers in the United States, Britain, and Europe, this important collection of sixteen original essays offers new and invaluable insights into the work and achievements of the association
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DLC
Dewey number
973/.0496073
Government publication
government publication of a state province territory dependency etc
Index
index present
LC call number
E185.5.N276
LC item number
L66 2009
Literary form
non fiction
Nature of contents
bibliography
http://library.link/vocab/relatedWorkOrContributorDate
1960-
http://library.link/vocab/relatedWorkOrContributorName
  • Verney, Kevern
  • Sartain, Lee
http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
  • National Association for the Advancement of Colored People
  • African Americans
  • Civil rights movements
  • African Americans
  • United States
Label
Long is the way and hard : one hundred years of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), edited by Kevern Verney and Lee Sartain ; foreword by Adam Fairclough
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Publication
Bibliography note
Includes bibliographical references and index
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volume
Carrier category code
  • nc
Carrier MARC source
rdacarrier
Content category
text
Content type code
  • txt
Content type MARC source
rdacontent
Contents
  • Leading from the back : Roy Wilikins's leadership of the NAACP
  • Yvonne Ryan
  • Uneasy alliance : the NAACP and Martin Luther King
  • Peter J. Ling
  • The
  • NAACP and the challenges of 1960s radicalism
  • Simon Hall
  • The Falls Church Colored Citizens Protective League and the establishment of Virginia's first rural branch of the NAACP
  • Beverly Bunch-Lyons and Nakeina Douglas
  • "To hope till hope creates" : the NAACP in Alabama, 1913-1945
  • The NAACP in historiographical perspective
  • Kevern Verney
  • "It's worth one dollar to get rid of us" : middle-class persistence and the NAACP in Louisiana, 1915-1945
  • Lee Sartain
  • "in no event shall a Negro be eligible" : the NAACP takes on the Texas all-white primary, 1923-1944
  • Charles L. Zelden
  • Tensions in the relationship between local and national NAACP branches : the example of Detroit, 1919-1941
  • Patrick Flack
  • The Chicago NAACP : a century of challenge, triumph, and inertia
  • Christopher Robert Reed
  • The NAACP in California, 1914-1950
  • Kevern Verney and Lee Sartain
  • Jonathan Watson
  • "Your work is the most important, but without branches there can be no national work" : Cleveland's branch of the NAACP, 1929-1968
  • Andrew M. Fearnley
  • "They say ... New York is not worth a d----- to them" : the NAACP in Arkansas, 1918-1971
  • John A. Kirk
  • "All shadows are dark" : Walter White, racial identity, and national politics
  • Simon Topping
  • In Harlem and Hollywood : the NAACP's cultural campaigns, 1910-1950
  • Jenny Woodley
  • "A gigantic battle to win men's minds" : the NAACP's public relations department and post-Brown propaganda
  • George Lewis
Control code
351302884
Dimensions
23 cm
Extent
xxviii, 313 pages
Isbn
9781557289094
Isbn Type
(pbk. : alk. paper)
Lccn
2009021913
Media category
unmediated
Media MARC source
rdamedia
Media type code
  • n
System control number
(OCoLC)351302884
Label
Long is the way and hard : one hundred years of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), edited by Kevern Verney and Lee Sartain ; foreword by Adam Fairclough
Publication
Bibliography note
Includes bibliographical references and index
Carrier category
volume
Carrier category code
  • nc
Carrier MARC source
rdacarrier
Content category
text
Content type code
  • txt
Content type MARC source
rdacontent
Contents
  • Leading from the back : Roy Wilikins's leadership of the NAACP
  • Yvonne Ryan
  • Uneasy alliance : the NAACP and Martin Luther King
  • Peter J. Ling
  • The
  • NAACP and the challenges of 1960s radicalism
  • Simon Hall
  • The Falls Church Colored Citizens Protective League and the establishment of Virginia's first rural branch of the NAACP
  • Beverly Bunch-Lyons and Nakeina Douglas
  • "To hope till hope creates" : the NAACP in Alabama, 1913-1945
  • The NAACP in historiographical perspective
  • Kevern Verney
  • "It's worth one dollar to get rid of us" : middle-class persistence and the NAACP in Louisiana, 1915-1945
  • Lee Sartain
  • "in no event shall a Negro be eligible" : the NAACP takes on the Texas all-white primary, 1923-1944
  • Charles L. Zelden
  • Tensions in the relationship between local and national NAACP branches : the example of Detroit, 1919-1941
  • Patrick Flack
  • The Chicago NAACP : a century of challenge, triumph, and inertia
  • Christopher Robert Reed
  • The NAACP in California, 1914-1950
  • Kevern Verney and Lee Sartain
  • Jonathan Watson
  • "Your work is the most important, but without branches there can be no national work" : Cleveland's branch of the NAACP, 1929-1968
  • Andrew M. Fearnley
  • "They say ... New York is not worth a d----- to them" : the NAACP in Arkansas, 1918-1971
  • John A. Kirk
  • "All shadows are dark" : Walter White, racial identity, and national politics
  • Simon Topping
  • In Harlem and Hollywood : the NAACP's cultural campaigns, 1910-1950
  • Jenny Woodley
  • "A gigantic battle to win men's minds" : the NAACP's public relations department and post-Brown propaganda
  • George Lewis
Control code
351302884
Dimensions
23 cm
Extent
xxviii, 313 pages
Isbn
9781557289094
Isbn Type
(pbk. : alk. paper)
Lccn
2009021913
Media category
unmediated
Media MARC source
rdamedia
Media type code
  • n
System control number
(OCoLC)351302884

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