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Lift Every Voice

The NAACP and the Making of the Civil Rights Movement

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An edition of Lift every voice (2009)

Lift Every Voice

The NAACP and the Making of the Civil Rights Movement

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Ten years in the making, Lift Every Voice is the first major history of America's oldest civil rights organization and destined to be a classic in the field. Founded in 1909, the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) got its start as an elite organization dominated by white reformers at a time when segregation had triumphed in the South and the color line was tightening its hold in the North. By the end of World War I, the NAACP had become a mass-black membership organization reaching from Boston to Los Angeles and into the Mississippi Delta; after World War II, it had become synonymous with the freedom movement itself.

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. The book then moves into the critical postwar era, when, with a string of legal victories culminating in Brown v. Board, the NAACP knocked out the legal underpinnings of the segregation system and set the stage for the final assault on Jim Crow. An epic narrative of struggle against injustice, Lift Every Voice lays a new foundation for understanding the modern civil rights movement.

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Publisher
New Press
Language
English
Pages
528

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Lift Every Voice: The NAACP and the Making of the Civil Rights Movement
August 2009, New Press
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Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Published in
New York, NY
Genre
Non-fiction

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
973/.0496073
Library of Congress
E185.5.N276 S85 2009, E185.5.N276S85 2009

The Physical Object

Format
Hardcover
Pagination
xii, 514 p., [16] p. of plates, ill.
Number of pages
528
Dimensions
25 cm.

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL23180604M
Internet Archive
lifteveryvoicena00sull
ISBN 10
1595584463
ISBN 13
9781595584465
LCCN
2009009473
OCLC/WorldCat
286490663
Library Thing
8291347
Goodreads
6336027

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