"Ours is an immediate task" : Juanita Jackson and the origins of the NAACP youth movement -- To "keep our vision unclouded" : war and democracy -- To finish the fight : "freedom from fear!" -- "With all deliberate speed" : school desegregation, Emmett Till, and the Montgomery Bus Boycott -- "More than a hamburger and a cup of coffee" : NAACP youth and the 1960s freedom struggle -- "And if not now, when?" : securing our freedom.
Summary
"This book is very important in the wider context of related scholarship in themodern-day ciivil rights movement because it will be the first on the youthperspective in the NAACP. ... I believe that will be widely used by scholars andthe general public."--Linda Reed, author of Simple Decency and Common Sense: TheSouthern Conference Movement, 1938-1963 Historical studies of black youth activism have until now focused almost exclusively on the activities of the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) and the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC).
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