Death Blow to Jim Crow : The National Negro Congress and the Rise of Militant Civil Rights /

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In this manuscript, Erik Gellman examines the civil rights movement that occurred a generation before the better known movement in the 1960s. In 1936, Black intellectuals, labor organizers, and artists formed the National Negro Congress (NNC), a group that demanded a "second emancipation"...

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Main Author: Gellman, Erik S. (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, [2012]
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Southern Negro Youth Congress.
National Negro Congress (U.S.)
Southern Negro Youth Congress > History.
National Negro Congress (U.S.) > History.
Bürgerrechtsbewegung
Schwarze
Race relations.
Race discrimination.
Civil rights movements.
African Americans > Segregation.
African Americans > Civil rights.
African Americans.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Ethnic Studies > African American Studies.
Noirs americains > Histoire > 1877-1964.
Mouvements des droits de l'homme > États-Unis > Histoire > 20e siecle.
Noirs americains > Droits > Histoire > 20e siecle.
African Americans > History > 1877-1964.
Civil rights movements > United States > History > 20th century.
Race discrimination > United States > History > 20th century.
African Americans > Civil rights > History > 20th century.
African Americans > Segregation > History > 20th century.
USA
United States.
États-Unis > Relations raciales > Histoire > 20e siecle.
United States > Race relations > History > 20th century.
History.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Labor's triumph and the "black magna carta" in the Chicago region, 1936-1939
  • Negro youth strike back against the "Virginia way" in Richmond, 1937-1940
  • Civilization has taken a holiday : violence and security in the nation's capital
  • Interlude : black and white, red, and over? : the Congress splits in Washington
  • Finding the north star in New York : home front battles during the Second World War
  • The world's "firing line" : South Carolina's postwar internationalism
  • Conclusion : gone with what wind?

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