Death Blow to Jim Crow

Erik S. Gellman

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 (SNYC), sought to coordinate and catalyze local antiracist activism into a national movement to undermine America's 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 members of the working class, which established civil rights as a necessity for reinvigorating American democracy.|Death Blow to Jim Crow: The National Negro Congress and the Rise of Militant Civil Rights

  • Format: Paperback
  • ISBN: 9781469618999
  • Publication Date: Aug 2014
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Militant Citizenship

Belinda A. Stillion Southard

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  • ISBN: 9781603442824
  • Publication Date: May 2012
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