The Chicago NAACP and the rise of Black professional leadership, 1910-1966
By: Christopher Robert Reed.
Series: Blacks in the diaspora
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Published: 1997
Place of publication: Bloomington, Ind
Language: eng
Number of pages: 257
Subjects: National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. Chicago Branch -- History; African Americans -- Civil rights -- Illinois -- Chicago -- History -- 20th century; African American leadership -- Illinois -- Chicago -- History -- 20th century; Chicago (Ill.) -- Race relations
Description: The Chicago NAACP was one of the first branches created in an effort to attain first-class citizenship for African Americans. Through the first six decades of white resistance, black indifference, and internal group struggle, the branch endured the effects of two world wars, national depression, the Cold War, and growing class differentiation among blacks. Ida B. Wells-Barnett, Jane Addams, Dr. Charles E. Bentley, and Earl B.

Dickerson were some early reformers who influenced the development of the Chicago NAACP during these earliest days.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [203]-245) and index.