NAACP youth and the fight for black freedom, 1936-1965
By: Thomas L. Bynum
Edition: First edition.
Publisher: The University of Tennessee Press
Published: 2013
Language: eng
Number of pages: 226
ISBN-13: 9781572339453
Subjects: National Association for the Advancement of Colored People; African Americans; Civil rights; Civil rights movements; African American college students; Youth movements; African American youth; Political activity; History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 193-208) and index.
Table of contents: title: "Ours is an immediate task" : Juanita Jackson and the origins of the NAACP youth movement; title: To "keep our vision unclouded" : war and democracy; title: To finish the fight : "freedom from fear!"; title: "With all deliberate speed" : school desegregation, Emmett Till, and the Montgomery Bus Boycott; title: "More than a hamburger and a cup of coffee" : NAACP youth and the 1960s freedom struggle; title: "And if not now, when?" : securing our freedom.