Lift Every Voice: The NAACP and the Making of the Civil Rights Movement by Patri

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Provides an extensively researched examination of the NAACP's growth and influence, from its inception in 1909 to the present.

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An epic narrative of the struggle against injustice, hailed as "the definitive history of the NAACP" by Henry Louis Gates Jr.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 postwar 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 Biography

Patricia 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 Deal Era and Freedom Writer: Virginia Foster Durr, Letters from the Civil Rights Years. She lives in Washington, D.C.

Review

A major contribution to our understanding of the political and cultural history of African Americans—indeed, of America itself.—Henry Louis Gates Jr., Alphonse Fletcher University Professor, Harvard UniversitySuperb new history . . . elegantly written. A compelling, exhaustively researched account that sweeps across much of the last century.—Jonathan Rosenberg, The Christian Science Monitor[A] vital account of 100 years of foundational civil rights activism.—Publishers Weekly (starred review)An overdue tribute to the organization most responsible for dismantling American apartheid.—Kirkus ReviewsA compelling story . . . includes enough action-packed material for a handful of historical novels, monographs, and biographies, as well as a few movies and a TV series or two.—American Reviews

Long Description

An epic narrative of the struggle against injustice, hailed as "the definitive history of the NAACP" by Henry Louis Gates Jr. 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 postwar 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.

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A major contribution to our understanding of the political and cultural history of African Americans

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The first major book on the NAACP, America's oldest civil rights organisation. Published in conjunction with the NAACP centennial celebration. An epic narrative of the struggle against institutional racial discrimination. Now available in paperback.

Details ISBN1595585443 Author Patricia Sullivan Short Title LIFT EVERY VOICE Language English ISBN-10 1595585443 ISBN-13 9781595585448 Media Book Format Paperback Year 2010 Pages 522 Illustrations Yes Affiliation University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill Imprint The New Press Subtitle The NAACP and the Making of the Civil Rights Movement Place of Publication New York Publication Date 2010-12-16 UK Release Date 2010-12-16 Country of Publication United Kingdom NZ Release Date 2010-12-16 Publisher The New Press DEWEY 973.0496073 Audience General AU Release Date 2010-11-21 We've got this

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