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Long is the Way and Hard - One Hundred Years of the NAACP (Hardcover)
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Long is the Way and Hard - One Hundred Years of the NAACP (Hardcover)
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This groundbreaking collection looks at the NAACP at all levels.
Celebrating its one-hundredth anniversary in February 2009, the
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP)
has been the leading and best-known African American civil rights
organization in the United States. It has played a major, and at
times decisive, role in most of the important developments in the
twentieth century civil rights struggle. Drawing on original and
previously unpublished scholarship from leading researchers in the
United States, Britain, and Europe, this important collection of
sixteen original essays offers new and invaluable insights into the
work and achievements of the association. The first part of the
book offers challenging reappraisals of two of the NAACP's
best-known national spokespersons, Walter White and Roy Wilkins.
Other essays analyze the association's cultural initiatives and the
key role played by its public-relations campaigns in the mid 1950s
to counter segregationist propaganda and win over the hearts and
minds of American public opinion in the wake of the NAACP's
landmark legal victory in Brown v. Board of Education. Others
provide thought-provoking accounts of the association's complex and
difficult relationship with Martin Luther King, the post-World War
II Civil Rights movement, and Black Power radicals of the 1960s.
The second part of the collection focuses on the work of the NAACP
at state, city, and local levels, examining its grassroots
organization throughout the nation from Chicago, Cleveland, and
Detroit in the North, to California in the West, as well as states
across the South including Virginia, Arkansas, Alabama, Louisiana,
and Texas. Providing detailed and fascinating information on
hitherto little explored aspects of the association's work, these
studies complement the previous essays by demonstrating the impact
national initiatives had on local activists and analyzing the
often-strained relations between the NAACP national office in New
York and its regional branches.
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