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Long is the way and hard : one hundred years of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) / edited by Kevern Verney and Lee Sartain.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- African Americans--Civil rights--History--20th century.
- African Americans.
- Civil rights movements--United States--History--20th century.
- Civil rights movements.
- African Americans--Politics and government--20th century.
- United States--Race relations.
- United States.
- National Association for the Advancement of Colored People--History--20th century.
- National Association for the Advancement of Colored People.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (346 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Fayetteville : University of Arkansas Press, c2009.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Kevern Verney is associate head of the Department of English and History at Edge Hill University, England, and the author of The Debate on Black Civil Rights in America.
- Contents:
- The NAACP in historiographical perspective / Kevern Verney and Lee Sartain
- "All shadows are dark" : Walter White, racial identity, and national politics / Simon Topping
- In Harlem and Hollywood : the NAACP's cultural campaigns, 1910-1950 / Jenny Woodley
- "A gigantic battle to win men's minds" : the NAACP's public relations department and post-Brown propaganda / George Lewis
- Leading from the back : Roy Wilikins's leadership of the NAACP / Yvonne Ryan
- Uneasy alliance : the NAACP and Martin Luther King / Peter J. Ling
- The NAACP and the challenges of 1960's radicalism / Simon Hall
- The Falls Church Colored Citizens Protective League and the establishment of Virginia's first rural branch of the NAACP / Beverly Bunch-Lyons and Nakeina Douglas
- "To hope till hope creates" : the NAACP in Alabama, 1913-1945 / Kevern Verney
- "It's worth one dollar to get rid of us" : middle-class persistence and the NAACP in Louisiana, 1915-1945 / Lee Sartain
- "in no event shall a Negro be eligible" : the NAACP takes on the Texas all-white primary, 1923-1944 / Charles L. Zelden
- Tensions in the relationship between local and national NAACP branches : the example of Detroit, 1919-1941 / Patrick Flack
- The Chicago NAACP : a century of challenge, triumph, and inertia / Christopher Robert Reed
- The NAACP in California, 1914-1950 / Jonathan Watson
- "Your work is the most important, but without branches there can be no national work" : Cleveland's branch of the NAACP, 1929-1968 / Andrew M. Fearnley
- "They say ... New York is not worth a d
- - to them" : the NAACP in Arkansas, 1918-1971 / John A. Kirk.
- Notes:
- Not distributed; available at Arkansas State Library.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 247-297) and index.
- ISBN:
- 1-61075-246-5
- OCLC:
- 769187834
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