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Record Nr.

UNINA9910970357303321

Autore

Gellman Erik S

Titolo

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

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Chapel Hill, : University of North Carolina Press, c2012

ISBN

979-88-908845-8-9

979-88-9313-389-9

1-4696-0196-6

0-8078-6993-7

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (369 pages)

Collana

The John Hope Franklin series in African American history and culture

Disciplina

323.1196/073

Soggetti

African Americans - Segregation - History - 20th century

African Americans - Civil rights - History - 20th century

Race discrimination - United States - History - 20th century

Civil rights movements - United States - History - 20th century

African Americans - History - 1877-1964

United States Race relations History 20th century

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Labor's triumph and the "black magna carta" in the Chicago region, 1936-1939 -- Negro youth strike back against the "Virginia way" in Richmond, 1937-1940 -- Civilization has taken a holiday : violence and security in the nation's capital -- Interlude : black and white, red, and over? : the Congress splits in Washington -- Finding the north star in New York : home front battles during the Second World War -- The world's "firing line" : South Carolina's postwar internationalism -- Conclusion : gone with what wind?.

Sommario/riassunto

During the Great Depression, black intellectuals, labor organizers, and artists formed the National Negro Congress (NNC) to demand a ""second emancipation"" in America. Over the next decade, the NNC and its offshoot, the Southern Negro Youth Congress, sought to coordinate and catalyze local antiracist activism into a national movement to undermine the Jim Crow system of racial and economic



exploitation. In this pioneering study, Erik S. Gellman shows how the NNC agitated for the first-class citizenship of African Americans and all members of the working class, establishing civil rights as nece