Death Blow to Jim Crow: The National Negro Congress and the Rise of Militant Civil Rights

by Erik S. Gellman

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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...

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:1469618990

ISBN13:9781469618999

Release Date:August 2014

Publisher:University of North Carolina Press

Length:368 Pages

Weight:1.29 lbs.

Dimensions:0.9" x 6.2" x 9.4"

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