[PDF] Naacp eBook

Author : Patricia Sullivan
Publisher : New Press, The
Page : 724 pages
File Size : 32,15 MB
Release : 2009-07-29
Category : History
ISBN : 1595585117

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A “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 South—keeping 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 post-war era, following 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. 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.

Author : Mark V. Tushnet
Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 23,95 MB
Release : 1987
Category : Segregation in education
ISBN : 9780807841730

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Mark Tushnet presents the story of the NAACP's legal campaign against segregated schools as a case study in public interest law, which in fact began in the United States with that very campaign.

Author : Brian J. Daugherity
Publisher : University of Virginia Press
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 18,62 MB
Release : 2016-08-03
Category : History
ISBN : 0813938902

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Virginia was a battleground state in the struggle to implement Brown v. Board of Education, with one of the South’s largest and strongest NAACP units fighting against a program of noncompliance crafted by the state’s political leaders. Keep On Keeping On offers a detailed examination of how African Americans and the NAACP in Virginia successfully pursued a legal agenda that provided new educational opportunities for the state’s black population in the face of fierce opposition from segregationists and the Democratic Party of Harry F. Byrd Sr. Keep On Keeping On is the first book to offer a comprehensive view of African Americans’ efforts to obtain racial equality in Virginia in the later twentieth century. Brian J. Daugherity considers the relationship between the various levels of the NAACP, the ideas and actions of other African American organizations, and the stances of Virginia’s political leaders, white liberals and moderates, and segregationists. In doing so, the author provides a better understanding of the connections between the actions of white political leaders and those of black civil rights activists working to bring about school desegregation. Blending social, legal, southern, and African American history, this book sheds new light on the civil rights movement and white resistance to civil rights in Virginia and the South.

Author : Gloria J. Browne-Marshall
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 259 pages
File Size : 27,49 MB
Release : 2016-08-22
Category : Law
ISBN : 1442266902

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The Voting Rights War tells the story of the courageous struggle to achieve voting equality through more than one hundred years of work by the NAACP at the Supreme Court. Readers take the journey for voting rights from slavery to the Plessy v. Ferguson case that legalized segregation in 1896 through today’s conflicts around voter suppression. The NAACP brought important cases to the Supreme Court that challenged obstacles to voting: grandfather clauses, all-White primaries, literacy tests, gerrymandering, vote dilution, felony disenfranchisement, and photo identification laws. This book highlights the challenges facing American voters, especially African Americans, the brave work of NAACP members, and the often contentious relationship between the NAACP and the Supreme Court. This book shows the human price paid for the right to vote and the intellectual stamina needed for each legal battle. The Voting Rights War follows conflicts on the ground and in the courtroom, from post-slavery voting rights and the formation of the NAACP to its ongoing work to gain a basic right guaranteed to every citizen. Whether through litigation, lobbying, or protest, the NAACP continues to play an unprecedented role in the battle for voting equality in America, fighting against prison gerrymandering, racial redistricting, the gutting of the Voting Rights Act, and more. The Voting Rights War highlights the NAACP’s powerful contribution and legacy.

Author : Kenneth Robert Janken
Publisher : UNC Press Books
Page : 516 pages
File Size : 27,44 MB
Release : 2006
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780807857809

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Walter White (1893-1955) was among the nation's preeminent champions of civil rights. With blond hair and blue eyes, he could "pass" as white even though he identified as African American, and his physical appearance allowed him to go undercover to invest

Author : National Association for the Advancement of Colored People
Publisher : Gibbs Smith
Page : 457 pages
File Size : 40,77 MB
Release : 2009
Category : African Americans
ISBN : 1423607783

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The NAACP--as seen in this visually stunning volume--is built on the collective courage of thousands of people of all races, nationalities and faiths united in one premise--that all men and women are created equal.

Author : Carol Anderson
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 385 pages
File Size : 27,9 MB
Release : 2015
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0521763789

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Bourgeois Radicals explores the NAACP's key role in the liberation of Africans and Asians across the globe even as it fought Jim Crow on the home front during the long civil rights movement. In the eyes of the NAACP's leaders, the way to create a stable international system, stave off communism in Africa and Asia, and prevent capitalist exploitation was to embed human rights, with its economic and cultural protections, in the transformation of colonies into nations. Indeed, the NAACP aided in the liberation struggles of multiple African and Asian countries within the limited ideological space of the Second Red Scare. However, its vision of a "third way" to democracy and nationhood for the hundreds of millions in Asia and Africa was only partially realized due to a toxic combination of the Cold War, Jim Crow, and die-hard imperialism. Bourgeois Radicals examines the toll that internationalism took on the organization and illuminates the linkages between the struggle for human rights and the fight for colonial independence.

Author : Mary White Ovington
Publisher : Feminist Press at CUNY
Page : 188 pages
File Size : 25,76 MB
Release : 1996
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781558611566

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Mary White Ovington, a white selement worker, "vividly describes the experiences that shaped her life," Booklist, including her pivotal role in the founding of the NAACP in the early 20th century.

Author : Diane Bailey
Publisher : The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc
Page : 82 pages
File Size : 49,71 MB
Release : 2014-07-15
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 1477777482

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Founded in 1909 in response to violence against African Americans, the NAACP is the nation's oldest and largest civil rights organization. In the last century, it won landmark court cases, including Brown v. Board of Education, that demolished the legal basis for segregation. It advanced legislation in employment, housing, and voting, and helped change public sentiment on racial equality. This title presents the little-known story of the NAACP, its leaders, and its role in promoting civil rights. Sure to enhance readers' grasp of American history, it also provides practice analyzing the development of individuals, events, and ideas, a Common Core ELA requirement.