The Ticket to Freedom: The NAACP and the Struggle for Black Political Integration (New Perspectives on the History of the South)
Berg, a German historian, directs this work to scholars and general readers in an effort to correct what he views as the underrating of the contributions of the NAACP to American racial equality. The NAACP took a bold approach, not accommodating the slow timetable for racial equality favored by whites. The group pushed ahead with public protests of customs and legal challenges to laws that segregated and disadvantaged blacks, its efforts culminating in theBrown v. Board of Educationtriumph. The NAACP early on targeted lynching as the violent and grievous signifier of race hatred. The organization saw efforts to secure voting rights as central to full citizenship for black Americans. Berg details the growth of the NAACP, its successes and failures, and the major figures who helped advance the NAACP, including W. E. B. DuBois, Thurgood Marshall, Moorfield Storey, Walter White, and Oswald Garrison Villard. This book, first written in German, is part of a series of new perspectives on the history of the South.Vanessa BushCopyright © American Library Association. All rights reserved