We Return Fighting The Civil Rights Movement in the Jazz Age

Name: We Return Fighting The Civil Rights Movement in the Jazz Age
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ISBN: 9781555534905

ISBN-10: 1555534902

ISBN-13: 9781555534905

Edition: 2001

Authors: Mark Robert Schneider

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These crucial struggles are traditionally overlooked by scholars who focus instead on other dynamic movements of the period, namely Marcus Garvey's United Negro Improvement Association and the Harlem Renaissance. In "We Return Fighting," Mark Robert Schneider restores to history the significant contributions and pioneering efforts of the leaders and rank-and-file in the NAACP during the Jazz Age. He tells the complex and multi-layered story of courageous campaigns for voting rights and equal education, against segregation and lynching, that were fought in the streets, courts, press, meeting halls, city offices, state legislatures, and Washington lobbies. Schneider's engrossing account…

Book details

List price: $50.00
Copyright year: 2001
Publisher: University Press of New England
Publication date: 11/8/2001
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 476
Size: 6.25" wide x 9.50" long x 1.50" tall
Weight: 2.090
Language: English



Illustrations


Introduction



Make Way for Democracy!



It Just Explodes



America's NAACP



On the Road



"There Is No Justice in Phylips Country"



Land of His Ancestors



Hope and Terror in the South



Election Day in Florida



The Emperor of Harlem



The Horror



The Prophet of Pan-Africa



The Antilynching Bill



Follow the North Star



"The Cornerstone of the Temple"



Clemency



The Hooded Order



The Ship and the Sea



Dr. Nixon Goes to the Polls



The Capitol, the Canal Street Shaft, the Statue of Liberty



Home Sweet Home



"I Can't Go Back to Aiken County"



"The Supreme Court Will Some Day ..."



"I Forgive You All and Hope to Meet You in Heaven"



"Never Let a Nigger Pick Up a Tool"



Poems and Novels: Jazz and Baseball



"The Hounds of God Howling in His Hills"


Abbreviations


Notes


Selected Bibliography


Index