The Path to the Greater, Freer, Truer World: Southern Civil Rights and Anticolonialism, 1937-1955

by Lindsey R. Swindall

Book Overview

The Southern Negro Youth Congress and the Council on African Affairs were two organizations created as part of the early civil rights efforts to address race and labor issues during the Great Depression. They fought within a leftist, Pan-African framework against disenfranchisement, segregation, labor exploitation, and colonialism. By situating the development of the SNYC and the Council on African Affairs within the scope of the long civil rights...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0813056349
• ISBN13: 9780813056340
• Release Date: May 2019
• Publisher: University Press of Florida
• Length: 254 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"