Ticket to Freedom: The NAACP and the Struggle for Black Political Integration

Front Cover; Table of Contents ix; List of Tables xi; Foreword xiii; Preface xvii; List of Abbreviations xix; Introduction: Writing the History of the NAACP 1; 1. The Making of an Integrationist Civil Rights Organization 10; 2. Educating Black Voters and White Politicians 40; 3. Chasing the Rainbow?...

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Main Author: Berg, Manfred (Author)
Format: Book/Monograph
Language:English
Published: Gainesville UPF 2005
Edition:Online-Ausg.
Series:EBL-Schweitzer
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Summary:Front Cover; Table of Contents ix; List of Tables xi; Foreword xiii; Preface xvii; List of Abbreviations xix; Introduction: Writing the History of the NAACP 1; 1. The Making of an Integrationist Civil Rights Organization 10; 2. Educating Black Voters and White Politicians 40; 3. Chasing the Rainbow? Black Voting Rights in the Courts 69; 4. Protest and Loyalty: The NAACP in the Second World War 94; 5. Civil Rights and Liberal Anticommunism 116; 6. ""Aren't You an American Citizen?" The NAACP Voter Registration Campaigns in the South 140; 7. Voter Registration or Nonviolent Direct Action? 166
8. The Politics of Civil Rights 1919. Black Power-White Backlash 221; Conclusion: The Ticket to Freedom? 250; Notes 265; Bibliography 323; Index 343
The first full-scale political history of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, tracing its struggle for black civil and political equality from its founding in 1909 through the post-civil rights years
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Physical Description:Online Resource
ISBN:9780813037011