Death blow to Jim Crow
Subtitle: the National Negro Congress and the rise of militant civil rights
By: Erik S. Gellman
Series: The John Hope Franklin series in African American history and culture
Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Chapel Hill
Language: eng
Number of pages: 354
ISBN-13: 9780807835319
Subjects: Race relations; Race discrimination; Southern Negro Youth Congress; Segregation; Civil rights; African Americans; Civil rights movements; National Negro Congress (U.S.); History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Labor's triumph and the "black magna carta" in the Chicago region, 1936-1939; title: Negro youth strike back against the "Virginia way" in Richmond, 1937-1940; title: Civilization has taken a holiday : violence and security in the nation's capital; title: Interlude : black and white, red, and over? : the Congress splits in Washington; title: Finding the north star in New York : home front battles during the Second World War; title: The world's "firing line" : South Carolina's postwar internationalism; title: Conclusion : gone with what wind?