The Voices of Negro Protest in America
By: [by] W. Haywood Burns ; with a foreword by John Hope Franklin.
Contributors: Institute of Race Relations.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 1963
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 89
First sentence: First sentence from the introduction:

In his classic study "An American Dilemma," Gunnar Myrdal concluded his chapter on 'The Negro Protest' with a prophesy that the years following the Second World War would see increased ferment and protest in the Negro community.
Description: From the back cover:

"The gap between hope and reality" that exists for 20 million Negro Americans can no longer be filled with abstract promises. Now, urgent voices of protest challenge the slow arguments of tradition. This book is an appraisal of the new anger and new militancy.

"Mr. Burns describes first the slave rebellions and attempts at Negro organization that preceded legal and social movements of today. After depicting the rise of the N.A.A.C.P., the first association to carry civil reform effectively through the courts, he takes up the direct protest movement that has been gathering force since the Second World War. This movement expresses a "breakdown of faith" in the conventional methods of protest. The Southern Christian Leadership Conference, led by the Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr., the Student Non-violent Co-ordinating Committee, and CORE all demand full citizenship by passive resistance in sit-ins, Freedom Rides, and boycotts."

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Notes: Issued under the auspices of the Institute of Race Relations, London.
Table of contents: title: Foreword by Professor John Hope Franklin
class: chapter
label: Foreword; title: Introduction
label: Introduction; label: Chapter I
pagenum: 1
title: Echoes; label: Chapter II
pagenum: 18
title: Through the Courts of Justice; title: We Shall Overcome
pagenum: 37
label: Chapter III; label: Chapter IV
pagenum: 61
title: Let My People Go; label: Conclusion
pagenum: 82
title: Conclusion; title: Select Bibliography
pagenum: 87
label: Bibliography