Defining the struggle : national racial justice organizing, 1880-1915 / Susan D. Carle.
Publisher: New York : Oxford University Press, 2014Description: 1 online resource : illustrations (black and white)Content type: text | still image Media type: computer Carrier type: online resourceISBN: 9780199369843 (ebook) :Subject(s): African Americans -- Legal status, laws, etc. -- History | Civil rights movements -- United States -- History
| Civil rights lawyers -- United States -- HistoryAdditional Physical Form: Print version : 9780199945740DDC classification: 323.1196073009034 LOC classification: KF4757 | .C37 2014Online resources: Oxford scholarship online Summary: This study uncovers the forgotten contributions of late 19th and early 20th century national organisations - including the National Afro-American League, the National Afro-American Council, the National Association of Colored Women's Clubs, and the Niagara Movement - in developing strategies for racial justice organising, which they then passed on to the NAACP and the National Urban League. It tells the story of these organisations' leaders and motivations, the initiatives they undertook, and the ideas about law and racial justice activism they developed and passed on to future generations.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
This study uncovers the forgotten contributions of late 19th and early 20th century national organisations - including the National Afro-American League, the National Afro-American Council, the National Association of Colored Women's Clubs, and the Niagara Movement - in developing strategies for racial justice organising, which they then passed on to the NAACP and the National Urban League. It tells the story of these organisations' leaders and motivations, the initiatives they undertook, and the ideas about law and racial justice activism they developed and passed on to future generations.
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