Segregation and self-determination: the making of the NAACP -- Riot and reaction: the lineaments of reinvention -- Radicalism and liberal reform: the NAACP during the New Deal -- Civil rights and collective action: the battle for Black empowerment -- Popular fronts: from New Deal coalition to Black rights revolution -- Cold war civil rights: Brown v. Board of Education and the emerging power of the periphery
Summary
A comprehensive history of the African American fight for racial equality from the standpoint of the civil rights movement in South Carolina, Democracy Rising examines the struggle from the end of the Civil War through the modern civil rights movement of the 1960s. In an effort to broaden our understanding of civil rights and democracy in America, Peter F. Lau describes how conflicts born of the state's history of racial exclusion and discrimination continue to shape the social problems and promises of our time. At the center of the book is the National Association for the Advancement of Color
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 283-316) and index
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