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Documents the life of a gifted African American leader whose contributions were pivotal to the movement for social justice and racial equalityFranklin Hall Williams was a visionary and trailblazer who devoted his life to the pursuit of civil rights—not through acrimony and violence and hatred but through reason and example. A Bridge to Justice sheds new light on this practical, pragmatic bridge-builder and brilliant, complex individual whose life reflected the opportunities and constraints of an intellectually elite Black man in the twentieth century.Franklin H. Williams was considered a “bridge” figure, someone whose position outside the limelight allowed him to navigate both Black and white circles, span the more turbulent racial waters below, and persuade people to see the world in a new way. During his prolific lifetime, he was a civil rights leader, lawyer, diplomat, organizer of the Peace Corps, United Nations representative, foundation president, and associate of Thurgood Marshall on some of the seminal civil liberties cases of the past hundred years, though their relationship was so fraught with tension that Marshall had Williams sent to California. He worked in the Kennedy and Johnson administrations, served as a diplomat, and became an exceptionally persuasive advocate for civil rights. Even after enduring the segregated Army, suffering cruel discrimination, and barely escaping a murderous lynch mob eager to make him pay for zealously representing three innocent Black men falsely accused of rape, Franklin was not a hater. He believed that Americans, in general, were good people who were open to reason and, in their hearts, sympathetic to fairness and justice.Dr. Enid Gort, an anthropologist and Africanist who conducted hundreds of hours of exclusive interviews with Williams, his family, friends, colleagues, and compatriots, and John M. Caher, a professional writer and legal journalist, have co-written an exhaustively researched and scrupulously documented account of this civil rights champion’s life and impact. His story is an object lesson to help this nation heal and advance through unity rather than tribalism.

Ambassadors --- Lawyers --- American Veterans Committee. --- Batson. --- Fordham Law. --- Groveland. --- HBCU. --- Kwame Nkrumah. --- LDF. --- Lincoln University. --- NAACP. --- Thurgood Marshall.

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Freedom's Sword is the first history to detail the remarkable, lasting achievements of the NAACP's first sixty years. From its pivotal role in overturning the Jim Crow laws in the South to its twenty-year court campaign that culminated with Brown v. the Board of Education, the NAACP has been at the forefront of the struggle against American racism. Gilbert Jonas, a fifty-year veteran of the organization, tracks America's political and social landscape period by period, as the NAACP grows to 400,000 members and is recognized by both blacks and whites as the leading force for social jus

African Americans --- Civil rights movements --- Racism --- Civil rights --- History --- Politics and government --- National Association for the Advancement of Colored People --- NAACP (Organization) --- N.A.A.C.P. (Organization) --- History. --- United States --- Race relations. --- Race question

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This collection of writings offers a glimpse into the minds of three N.A.A.C.P. leaders who occupied the centre of black thought and action during some of the most troublesome and pivotal times of the civil rights movement.

African Americans --- Civil rights --- History --- Johnson, James Weldon, --- White, Walter, --- Wilkins, Roy, --- White, Walter Francis, --- White, Walter F., --- Johnson, J. W. --- Johnson, Jas. W. --- National Association for the Advancement of Colored People --- NAACP (Organization) --- N.A.A.C.P. (Organization) --- United States --- Race relations --- Johnson, James Weldon.

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School integration --- Segregation --- Desegregation in education --- Education --- Integration in education --- School desegregation --- Magnet schools --- Race relations in school management --- Segregation in education --- Desegregation --- Race discrimination --- Minorities --- Massive resistance movement --- Integration --- National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. --- NAACP (Organization) --- N.A.A.C.P. (Organization)

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An introduction to antiracism, a powerful tradition crucial for energizing American democracyOn August 12, 2017, in Charlottesville, Virginia, a rally of white nationalists and white supremacists culminated in the death of a woman murdered in the street. Those events made clear that racism is alive and well in the United States of America. However, they also brought into sharp relief another American tradition: antiracism. While racists marched and chanted in the streets, they were met and matched by even larger numbers of protesters calling for racism’s end. Racism is America’s original and most enduring sin, with well-known historic and contemporary markers: slavery, lynching, Jim Crow, redlining, mass incarceration, police brutality. But racism has always been challenged by an opposing political theory and practice. Alex Zamalin’s Antiracism tells the story of that opposition.The most theoretically generative and politically valuable source of antiracist thought has been the black American intellectual tradition. While other forms of racial oppression—for example, anti-Semitism, Islamophobia, and anti-Latino racism—have been and continue to be present in American life, antiblack racism has always been the primary focus of American antiracist movements. From antislavery abolition to the antilynching movement, black socialism to feminism, the long Civil Rights movement to the contemporary Movement for Black Lives, Antiracism examines the way the black antiracist tradition has thought about domination, exclusion, and power, as well as freedom, equality, justice, struggle, and political hope in dark times.Antiracism is an accessible introduction to the political theory of black American antiracism, through a study of the major figures, texts, and political movements across US history. Zamalin argues that antiracism is a powerful tradition that is crucial for energizing American democracy.

Anti-racism --- University of South Alabama --- United States. --- United States --- Race relations. --- American political tradition. --- Barack Obama. --- Black Lives Matter. --- Islamophobia. --- NAACP. --- abolitionism. --- antilynching. --- assimilation. --- civil rights movement. --- contemporary politics. --- democracy. --- dignity. --- education. --- equality. --- freedom. --- gender equality. --- historical amnesia. --- hope. --- intersectionality. --- justice. --- liberalism. --- philosophy. --- pluralism. --- policy reform. --- postracial. --- racial justice. --- racism. --- self-determination. --- social movements.