The Ticket to Freedom
Subtitle: The NAACP and the Struggle for Black Political Integration (New Perspectives on the History of the South)
Contributors: John David Smith (Foreword)
Publisher: University Press of Florida
Published: June 30, 2005
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 353
ISBN-13: 9780813028323
Subjects: Black studies; Civil rights & citizenship; 20th century; National Association for the A; History; Ethnic Issues; Sociology; History: American; USA; Political Freedom & Security - Civil Rights; Ethnic Studies - African American Studies - Histor; Political History; United States - 20th Century; African Americans; Politics and government; Suffrage
Description: "After many years of neglect and faultfinding by contemporary activists, historians, and the media, Manfred Berg restores the NAACP to its rightful place at the heart of the civil rights movement. Berg reveals the group's eminently political character as he assesses both its historical achievements and its failures. He suggests that while the NAACP did make significant gains in furthering the progress of America's black citizens at the grassroots level, its national agenda should not be discounted. Berg challenges criticisms of recent years that the NAACP's goals and methods were half-hearted, ineffective, and irrelevant and reveals a resourceful, dynamic, and politically astute organization that has done much to open up the electoral process to greater black participation."--BOOK JACKET.