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.

Other author Verney, Kevern, 1960-
Other author Sartain, Lee.
Format Book
Publication InfoFayetteville : University of Arkansas Press, ©2009.
Descriptionxxviii, 313 pages ; 23 cm
Subjects
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People--History. --20th century.
African Americans--Civil rights. --History. --20th century.
Civil rights movements--United States. --History. --20th century.
African Americans--Politics and government. --20th century.
United States--Race relations.

Contents The NAACP in historiographical perspective / Kevern Verney and Lee Sartain -- "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 -- 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 / 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 / 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.
Abstract 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.
General noteNot distributed; available at Arkansas State Library.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (p. 247-297) and index.
LCCN 2009021913
ISBN9781557289087 (clothbound : alk. paper)
ISBN1557289085 (clothbound : alk. paper)
ISBN9781557289094 (pbk. : alk. paper)
ISBN1557289093 (pbk. : alk. paper)
Other class# HI.F 3/178-8:L 663/2009

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