Ticket to Freedom

• Verfasst von: Berg, Manfred
• Titel: Ticket to Freedom
• Titelzusatz: The NAACP and the Struggle for Black Political Integration
• Ausgabe: Online-Ausg.
• Verlagsort: Gainesville
• Verlag: UPF
• Jahr: 2005
• Umfang: Online-Ressource (1 online resource (385 p.))
• Gesamttitel/Reihe: EBL-Schweitzer
• Fussnoten: Description based upon print version of record
• ISBN: 978-0-8130-3701-1
• Datenträger: Online-Ressource
• Sprache: eng
• Bibliogr. Hinweis: Erscheint auch als : Druck-Ausgabe: Berg, Manfred, 1959 - : "The ticket to freedom". - Gainesville, Fla. [u.a.] : Univ. Press of Florida, 2005. - XX, 352 S
• RVK-Notation: MG 70490
• Sach-SW: African Americans -- Politics and government
• Sach-SW: African Americans -- Suffrage -- History
• Sach-SW: National Association for the Advancement of Colored People -- History
• Sach-SW: United States -- Race relations -- History
• K10plus-PPN: 1653085975

Abstract

Front Cover; Table of Contents ix; List of Tables xi; Foreword xiii; Preface xvii; List of Abbreviations xix; Introduction: Writing the History of the NAACP 1; 1. The Making of an Integrationist Civil Rights Organization 10; 2. Educating Black Voters and White Politicians 40; 3. Chasing the Rainbow? Black Voting Rights in the Courts 69; 4. Protest and Loyalty: The NAACP in the Second World War 94; 5. Civil Rights and Liberal Anticommunism 116; 6. ""Aren't You an American Citizen?" The NAACP Voter Registration Campaigns in the South 140; 7. Voter Registration or Nonviolent Direct Action? 166

Abstract

8. The Politics of Civil Rights 1919. Black Power-White Backlash 221; Conclusion: The Ticket to Freedom? 250; Notes 265; Bibliography 323; Index 343

Abstract

The first full-scale political history of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, tracing its struggle for black civil and political equality from its founding in 1909 through the post-civil rights years