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Death blow to Jim Crow : the National Negro Congress and the rise of militant civil rights / Erik S. Gellman.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Gellman, Erik S.
- Series:
- John Hope Franklin series in African American history and culture.
- The John Hope Franklin series in African American history and culture
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- African Americans--Segregation--History--20th century.
- African Americans.
- African Americans--Civil rights--History--20th century.
- Race discrimination--United States--History--20th century.
- Race discrimination.
- Civil rights movements--United States--History--20th century.
- Civil rights movements.
- African Americans--History--1877-1964.
- United States--Race relations--History--20th century.
- United States.
- National Negro Congress (U.S.)--History.
- National Negro Congress (U.S.).
- Southern Negro Youth Congress--History.
- Southern Negro Youth Congress.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (369 pages)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, c2012.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- During the Great Depression, black intellectuals, labor organizers, and artists formed the National Negro Congress (NNC) to demand a ""second emancipation"" in America. Over the next decade, the NNC and its offshoot, the Southern Negro Youth Congress, sought to coordinate and catalyze local antiracist activism into a national movement to undermine the Jim Crow system of racial and economic exploitation. In this pioneering study, Erik S. Gellman shows how the NNC agitated for the first-class citizenship of African Americans and all members of the working class, establishing civil rights as nece
- Contents:
- Labor's triumph and the "black magna carta" in the Chicago region, 1936-1939
- Negro youth strike back against the "Virginia way" in Richmond, 1937-1940
- Civilization has taken a holiday : violence and security in the nation's capital
- Interlude : black and white, red, and over? : the Congress splits in Washington
- Finding the north star in New York : home front battles during the Second World War
- The world's "firing line" : South Carolina's postwar internationalism
- Conclusion : gone with what wind?.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 979-88-908845-8-9
- 979-88-9313-389-9
- 1-4696-0196-6
- 0-8078-6993-7
- OCLC:
- 773565311
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