Ticket to freedom

Informationen zum Autor Manfred Berg is Curt Englehorn Professor of American History at the University of Heidelberg, Germany. Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung After criticism by activists! historians! and the media! Manfred Berg restores the NAACP to its place in the civil rights movement. He challenges the legalistic and bureaucratic image of the NAACP and reveals a resourceful! dynamic! and politically astute organization that did much to open up the electoral process to black participation.

Product details

• Authors: m smith Berg, Manfred Berg, University Press of Florida
• Assisted by: J. David Smith (Editor)
• Publisher: External catalogues US
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 04.06.2005
• EAN: 9780813028323
• ISBN: 978-0-8130-2832-3
• Dimensions: 165 mm x 240 mm x 30 mm
• Series: New Perspectives on the Histor; New Perspectives on the Histor
• Subject: Social sciences, law, business > Ethnology > Folklore