Lift Every Voice: The NAACP and the Making of the Civil Rights Movement
Description
Sullivan spent ten years unearthing 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, James Weldon Johnson, Walter White, Charles Houston, Ella Baker, Thurgood Marshall, and Roy Wilkinsas well as a host of unknown but pivotal figures whom Lift Every Voice brings to light for the first time. With fascinating new information on the preWorld War I decades of the NAACP, the book culminates in 1963, altering the chronology of the civil righ...
ISBN(s)
1595585443, 9781595585448
