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activism
Author_University Press of Florida
black civil and political equality
black equality
black lives matter
Category=JBSL
Category=JPVC
civil rights
civil rights organization
contemporary activists
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eq_society-politics
equal rights
equality
NAACP
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People
political movements
struggle
Product details
- ISBN 9780813028323
- Weight: 700g
- Dimensions: 163 x 239mm
- Publication Date: 30 Jun 2005
- Publisher: University Press of Florida
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Hardback
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After many years of neglect and misplaced criticism by contemporary activists, historians, and the media, Manfred Berg restores the NAACP to its rightful place at the heart of the civil rights movement. Where others have dismissed the NAACP's goals and methods as half-hearted, ineffective, and irrelevant, Berg 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 greater black participation. Readers interested in the African American freedom struggle will find a nuanced and judiclous portrait of America's veteran civil rights organization.
Manfred Berg is Curt Englehorn Professor of American History at the University of Heidelberg, Germany.
