Death blow to Jim Crow : the National Negro Congress and the rise of militant civil rights /

In this manuscript, Erik Gellman examines the civil rights movement that occurred a generation before the better known movement in the 1960s. In 1936, Black intellectuals, labor organizers, and artists formed the National Negro Congress (NNC), a group that demanded a "second emancipation"...

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Online Access:Electronic book from EBSCO
Main Author: Gellman, Erik S. (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published:Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, [2012]
©2012
Series:John Hope Franklin series in African American history and culture.
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