Death blow to Jim Crow : the National Negro Congress and the rise of militant civil rights / Erik S. Gellman.
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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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Chapel Hill :
The University of North Carolina Press,
[2012]
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| Series: | John Hope Franklin series in African American history and culture.
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| Summary: | 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" for African Americans. For the next decade, the NNC and its offshoot, the Southern Negro Youth Congress (SNYC) sought to coordinate anti-racist activism of its more than 75 local councils into a national movement against Jim Crow. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xiii, 354 pages) : illustrations. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780807869932 0807869937 9781469601960 1469601966 |