03563nam 2200709 a 450 991077894960332120221215230630.01-4696-0196-60-8078-6993-7(CKB)2550000000083091(EBL)837884(OCoLC)773565311(SSID)ssj0000589698(PQKBManifestationID)11363976(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000589698(PQKBWorkID)10664855(PQKB)11226798(MiAaPQ)EBC837884(OCoLC)966926208(MdBmJHUP)muse48640(Au-PeEL)EBL837884(CaPaEBR)ebr10528252(CaONFJC)MIL929861(OCoLC)785776874(EXLCZ)99255000000008309120110606d2012 ub 0engur|||||||nn|ntxtccrDeath blow to Jim Crow the National Negro Congress and the rise of militant civil rights /Erik S. GellmanChapel Hill University of North Carolina Pressc20121 online resource (369 pages)The John Hope Franklin series in African American history and cultureDescription based upon print version of record.1-4696-1899-0 0-8078-3531-5 Includes bibliographical references and index.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?.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 neceJohn Hope Franklin series in African American history and culture.African AmericansSegregationHistory20th centuryAfrican AmericansCivil rightsHistory20th centuryRace discriminationUnited StatesHistory20th centuryCivil rights movementsUnited StatesHistory20th centuryAfrican AmericansHistory1877-1964United StatesRace relationsHistory20th centuryAfrican AmericansSegregationHistoryAfrican AmericansCivil rightsHistoryRace discriminationHistoryCivil rights movementsHistoryAfrican AmericansHistory323.1196/073Gellman Erik S1511725MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910778949603321Death blow to Jim Crow3745217UNINA