| Description |
1 online resource (xxviii, 313 pages) |
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polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Note |
Not distributed; available at Arkansas State Library. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 247-297) and index. |
| Contents |
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 -- NAACP and the challenges of 1960s radicalism / Simon Hall -- 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 -- Chicago NAACP : a century of challenge, triumph, and inertia / Christopher Robert Reed -- 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. |
| Summary |
<Div>Kevern Verney is associate head of the Department of English and History at Edge Hill University, England, and the author of The Debate on Black Civil Rights in America.</div> |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People -- History -- 20th century.
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National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. |
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History. |
| Chronological Term |
20th century |
| Subject |
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People -- History -- 20th century. |
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African Americans -- Civil rights -- History -- 20th century.
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African Americans -- Civil rights. |
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Civil rights movements -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
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Civil rights movements. |
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United States. |
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African Americans -- Politics and government -- 20th century.
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African Americans -- Politics and government. |
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United States -- Race relations.
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Race relations. |
| Chronological Term |
1900-1999 |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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History.
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| Added Author |
Verney, Kevern, 1960-
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Sartain, Lee.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Verney, Kevern. Long Is the Way and Hard : One Hundred Years of the NAACP. Chicago : University of Arkansas Press, ©2009 9781557289094 |
| ISBN |
9781610752466 (electronic book) |
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1610752465 (electronic book) |
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9781557289087 (clothbound ; alkaline paper) |
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1557289085 (clothbound ; alkaline paper) |
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9781557289094 (paperback ; alkaline paper) |
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1557289093 (paperback ; alkaline paper) |
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