Lift Every Voice
Subtitle: The NAACP and the Making of the Civil Rights Movement
By: [by] Patricia Sullivan.
Publisher: New Press
Published: August 2009
Place of publication: New York, NY
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 528
ISBN-13: 9781595584465
Subjects: National Association for the Advancement of Colored People -- History; Civil rights movements -- United States -- History -- 20th century; African Americans -- Civil rights -- History -- 20th century; United States -- Race relations
Genres: Non-fiction
Description: Ten years in the making, Lift Every Voice is the first major history of America's oldest civil rights organization and destined to be a classic in the field. Founded in 1909, the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) got its start as an elite organization dominated by white reformers at a time when segregation had triumphed in the South and the color line was tightening its hold in the North. By the end of World War I, the NAACP had become a mass-black membership organization reaching from Boston to Los Angeles and into the Mississippi Delta; after World War II, it had become synonymous with the freedom movement itself.

Historian Patricia Sullivan unearths the little-known early decades of the NAACP's activism, telling startling stories of personal bravery, legal brilliance, and political maneuvering by the likes of W.E.B. Du Bois, Mary White Ovington, Walter White, Charles Houston, Ella Baker, Thurgood Marshall, and Roy Wilkins. The book then moves into the critical postwar era, when, with a string of legal victories culminating in Brown v. Board, the NAACP knocked out the legal underpinnings of the segregation system and set the stage for the final assault on Jim Crow. An epic narrative of struggle against injustice, Lift Every Voice lays a new foundation for understanding the modern civil rights movement.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: label: Chapter 1
title: Call to Action
pagenum: 1; label: Chapter 2
title: Welding the Hammers
pagenum: 25; label: Chapter 3
title: Going South: The NAACP in the World War I Era
pagenum: 61; label: Chapter 4
title: Making a Way: The "New Negro" in Postwar America
pagenum: 101; label: Chapter 5
title: Radical Visions: The Depression Years
pagenum: 145; label: Chapter 6
title: Crossroads: Protest and Politics in the New Deal Era
pagenum: 190; label: Chapter 7
title: In the Shadow of War: Battlefields for Freedom
pagenum: 237; label: Chapter 8
title: Justice Now: Claiming the Postwar Moment
pagenum: 287; label: Chapter 9
title: The Beginning of the End: Segregation Must Go
pagenum: 333; label: Chapter 10
title: "On the Threshold of Victory"
pagenum: 384