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Lift Every Voice: The NAACP and the Making of the Civil Rights Movement Paperback – September 14, 2010

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An epic narrative of the struggle against injustice, hailed as "the definitive history of the NAACP" by Henry Louis Gates Jr.

A "civil rights Hall of Fame" (Kirkus) that was published to remarkable praise in conjunction with the NAACP's Centennial Celebration, Lift Every Voice is a momentous history of the struggle for civil rights told through the stories of men and women who fought inescapable racial barriers in the North as well as the South―keeping the promise of democracy alive from the earliest days of the twentieth century to the triumphs of the 1950s and 1960s.

Historian Patricia Sullivan unearths the little-known early decades of the NAACP's activism, telling startling stories of personal bravery, legal brilliance, and political maneuvering by the likes of W.E.B. Du Bois, Mary White Ovington, Walter White, Charles Houston, Ella Baker, Thurgood Marshall, and Roy Wilkins. In the critical postwar era, following a string of legal victories culminating in Brown v. Board, the NAACP knocked out the legal underpinnings of the segregation system and set the stage for the final assault on Jim Crow.

A sweeping and dramatic story woven deep into the fabric of American history―"history that helped shape America's consciousness, if not its soul" (Booklist)―Lift Every Voice offers a timeless lesson on how people, without access to the traditional levers of power, can create change under seemingly impossible odds.

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A major contribution to our understanding of the political and cultural history of African Americans―indeed, of America itself.
―Henry Louis Gates Jr., Alphonse Fletcher University Professor, Harvard University

Superb new history . . . elegantly written. A compelling, exhaustively researched account that sweeps across much of the last century.
―Jonathan Rosenberg, The Christian Science Monitor

[A] vital account of 100 years of foundational civil rights activism.
―Publishers Weekly (starred review)

An overdue tribute to the organization most responsible for dismantling American apartheid.
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A compelling story . . . includes enough action-packed material for a handful of historical novels, monographs, and biographies, as well as a few movies and a TV series or two.
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Patricia Sullivan teaches history at the University of South Carolina and is a fellow in the W.E.B. Du Bois Institute at Harvard University. Her books include Days of Hope: Race and Democracy in the New Deal Era and Freedom Writer: Virginia Foster Durr, Letters from the Civil Rights Years. She lives in Washington, D.C.

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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ The New Press; Reprint edition (September 14, 2010)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Paperback ‏ : ‎ 560 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1595585443
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1595585448
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 1.73 pounds
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 6 x 1.5 x 9.4 inches
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Patricia Sullivan teaches history at the University of South Carolina and is a fellow in the W.E.B. Du Bois Institute at Harvard University. Her books include Days of Hope: Race and Democracy in the New Deal Era and Freedom Writer: Virginia Foster Durr, Letters from the Civil Rights Years. She lives in Washington, D.C.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Learning more about the lead up to the civil rights movement
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I wanted to know more about what happened in the fight for justice for all before the civil rights movement. This book and Slavery by Another Name taught me a great deal. If you have read Michelle Alexander’s book and want to know more. This book will help.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Fascinating
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This is a fascinating history of the NAACP. It gave me a clearer idea of what living under Jim Crow laws meant as well as the thinking and planning that went into the fight for equal rights in the 1960s. This is a document of American history that should be studied by every student in the US.
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In the Author’s own words, “Lift Every Voice explores how an unprecedented opening toward interracial collaboration and anti-segregationist activism became the vanguard of one of the most powerful social and political movement in modern history ”. Lift Every Voice is the story of the NAACP, how it got started, its struggles, its triumphs, and the men and women who struggled and worked with the association. It is written from the NAACP’s own archival records, and the personal collections of letters, records, and notes from many involved. Patricia Sullivan’s Lift Every Voice affords the reader a greater, more historic view and deeper insight into the inner workings and foundations of the NAACP. We learn of philanthropists and racially engaged whites such as Oswald Garrison Villard, Mary White Ovington, Joel Spingarn, and others like them.
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