Title Death blow to Jim Crow : the National Negro Congress and the rise of militant civil rights / Erik S. Gellman

Published Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, [2012] ©2012

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Description 1 online resource (xiii, 354 pages) : illustrations Series The John Hope Franklin series in African American history and culture John Hope Franklin series in African American history and culture. Contents Labor's triumph and the "black magna carta" in the Chicago region, 1936-1939 -- Negro youth strike back against the "Virginia way" in Richmond, 1937-1940 -- Civilization has taken a holiday : violence and security in the nation's capital -- Interlude : black and white, red, and over? : the Congress splits in Washington -- Finding the north star in New York : home front battles during the Second World War -- The world's "firing line" : South Carolina's postwar internationalism -- Conclusion : gone with what wind? Summary In this manuscript, Erik Gellman examines the civil rights movement that occurred a generation before the better known movement in the 1960s. In 1936, Black intellectuals, labor organizers, and artists formed the National Negro Congress (NNC), a group that demanded a "second emancipation" for African Americans. For the next decade, the NNC and its offshoot, the Southern Negro Youth Congress (SNYC) sought to coordinate anti-racist activism of its more than 75 local councils into a national movement against Jim Crow Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes English Online resource (HeinOnline, viewed July 8, 2021) Subject National Negro Congress (U.S.) -- History Southern Negro Youth Congress -- History SUBJECT National Negro Congress (U.S.) fast Southern Negro Youth Congress fast Subject African Americans -- Segregation -- History -- 20th century African Americans -- Civil rights -- History -- 20th century Race discrimination -- United States -- History -- 20th century Civil rights movements -- United States -- History -- 20th century African Americans -- History -- 1877-1964. SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Ethnic Studies -- African American Studies. African Americans African Americans -- Civil rights African Americans -- Segregation Civil rights movements Race discrimination Race relations Bürgerrechtsbewegung SUBJECT United States -- Race relations -- History -- 20th century Subject United States USA Genre/Form Electronic books History Form Electronic book LC no. 2011022145 ISBN 9780807869932 0807869937 9781469601960 1469601966

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