Lift Every Voice: The NAACP and the Making of the Civil Rights Movement

Sullivan, Patricia

ISBN 10: 1595585443 / ISBN 13: 9781595585448

Published by The New Press, 2010

About this Item

As New/1st ed. This copy does not appear to have been read. No crease to cover, no writing or soiling to the interior of book. Cover lays flat. 560pp., notes, index. Book comes to you in an acid free document bag for storage, mailed boxed, and I can have it in the mail tomorrow. BRBC 3/2nd shelf.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Lift Every Voice: The NAACP and the Making of the Civil Rights Movement
• Publisher: The New Press
• Publication Date: 2010
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1595585443
• ISBN 13: 9781595585448
• Binding: Soft cover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Printing: 1st Printing
• Condition: As New
• Seller catalogs:
  • Black Americana-Black Interest
  • Americana
  • History--Civil and Otherwise

About this title

Synopsis

An epic narrative of the struggle against injustice, hailed as "the definitive history of the NAACP" by Henry Louis Gates Jr.

A "civil rights Hall of Fame" (Kirkus) that was published to remarkable praise in conjunction with the NAACP's Centennial Celebration, Lift Every Voice is a momentous history of the struggle for civil rights told through the stories of men and women who fought inescapable racial barriers in the North as well as the South―keeping the promise of democracy alive from the earliest days of the twentieth century to the triumphs of the 1950s and 1960s.

Historian Patricia Sullivan unearths the little-known early decades of the NAACP's activism, telling startling stories of personal bravery, legal brilliance, and political maneuvering by the likes of W.E.B. Du Bois, Mary White Ovington, Walter White, Charles Houston, Ella Baker, Thurgood Marshall, and Roy Wilkins. In the critical postwar era, following a string of legal victories culminating in Brown v. Board, the NAACP knocked out the legal underpinnings of the segregation system and set the stage for the final assault on Jim Crow.

A sweeping and dramatic story woven deep into the fabric of American history―"history that helped shape America's consciousness, if not its soul" (Booklist)―Lift Every Voice offers a timeless lesson on how people, without access to the traditional levers of power, can create change under seemingly impossible odds.

About the Author

Patricia Sullivan teaches history at the University of South Carolina and is a fellow in the W.E.B. Du Bois Institute at Harvard University. Her books include Days of Hope: Race and Democracy in the New Deal Era and Freedom Writer: Virginia Foster Durr, Letters from the Civil Rights Years. She lives in Washington, D.C.