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African Americans --- Civil rights movements --- Afro-Amerikanen --- Mensenrechten --- National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) --- Rassenrelaties --- Civil rights --- History --- mensenrechten --- geschiedenis --- Verenigde Staten --- National Association for the Advancement of Colored People --- History. --- United States --- Race relations. --- geschiedenis. --- Verenigde Staten.

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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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In August, 1933, dozens of people gathered amid seven large, canvas tents in a field near Amenia, in upstate New York. Joel Spingarn, president of the board of the NAACP, had called a conference to revitalize the flagging civil rights organization. In Amenia, such old lions as the 65 year-old W.E.B. DuBois would mingle with ""the coming leaders of Negro thought."" It was a fascinating encounter that would transform the civil rights movement. With elegant writing and piercing insight, historian Eben Miller narrates how this little-known conference brought together a remarkable young group of Af

Civil rights movements --- African Americans --- History --- Civil rights --- Economic conditions --- Redding, Louis L. --- Harris, Abram Lincoln, --- Jackson, Juanita C. --- Weston, M. Moran, --- Bunche, Ralph J. --- National Association for the Advancement of Colored People --- Amenia Conference

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When Aaron Henry returned home to Mississippi from World War II service in 1946, he was part of wave of black servicemen who challenged the racial status quo. He became a pharmacist through the GI Bill, and as a prominent citizen, he organized a hometown chapter of the NAACP and relatively quickly became leader of the state chapter. From that launching pad he joined and helped lead an ensemble of activists who fundamentally challenged the system of segregation and the almost total exclusion of African Americans from the political structure. These efforts were most clearly evident in his leadership of the integrated Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party delegation, which, after an unsuccessful effort to unseat the lily-white Democratic delegation at the Democratic National Convention in 1964, won recognition from the national party in 1968. The man who the New York Times described as being "at the forefront of every significant boycott, sit-in, protest march, rally, voter registration drive and court case" eventually became a rare example of a social-movement leader who successfully moved into political office. Aaron Henry of Mississippi covers the life of this remarkable leader, from his humble beginnings in a sharecropping family to his election to the Mississippi house of representatives in 1979, all the while maintaining the social-change ideology that prompted him to improve his native state, and thereby the nation.

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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.