Death Blow to Jim Crow: The National Negro Congress and the Rise of Militant Civil Rights

by Erik S. Gellman

Book Overview

During the Great Depression, black intellectuals, labor organizers, and artists formed the National Negro Congress (NNC) to demand a "second emancipation" in America. Over the next decade, the NNC and its offshoot, the Southern Negro Youth Congress, sought to coordinate and catalyze local antiracist activism into a national movement to undermine the Jim Crow system of racial and economic exploitation. In this pioneering study, Erik S. Gellman shows...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1469618990
• ISBN13: 9781469618999
• Release Date: August 2014
• Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
• Length: 368 Pages
• Weight: 1.29 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.2" x 9.4"