The Ticket to Freedom: The NAACP and the Struggle for Black Political Integration

by Manfred Berg

Book Overview

The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People is the United States' largest and oldest civil rights organization. After many years of neglect and faultfinding by contemporary activists, historians, and the media, Manfred Berg restores the NAACP to its rightful place at the heart of the civil rights movement. Berg reveals the group's eminently political character as he assesses both its historical achievements and its failures. He...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0813028329
• ISBN13: 9780813028323
• Release Date: June 2005
• Publisher: University Press of Florida
• Length: 376 Pages
• Weight: 1.58 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.4" x 9.4"