TY  - BOOK
AU  - Verney,Kevern
AU  - Sartain,Lee
AU  - Fairclough,Adam
TI  - Long Is the Way and Hard: One Hundred Years of the NAACP
SN  - 9781610752466
AV  - E185 
U1  - 973/.0496073 
PY  - 2009///
CY  - Fayetteville
PB  - University of Arkansas Press
KW  - African Americans - Politics and government - 20th century
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Intro -- Contents -- Foreword -- The NAACP In Historiographical Perspective -- I. The NAACP at the National Level -- 1. "All Shadows Are Dark" -- 2. In Harlem and Hollywood -- 3. "A Gigantic Battle to Win Men's Minds" -- 4. Leading from the Back -- 5. Uneasy Alliance -- 6. The NAACP and the Challenges of 1960s Radicalism -- II. The NAACP at the State, City, and Local Levels -- 7. The Falls Church Colored Citizens Protective League and the Establishment of Virginia's First Rural Branch of the NAACP -- 8. "To Hope Till Hope Creates" -- 9. "It's Worth One Dollar to Get Rid of Us" -- 10. "In No Event Shall a Negro Be Eligible" -- 11. Tensions in the Relationship between Local and National NAACP Branches -- 12. The Chicago NAACP -- 13. The NAACP in California,1914-1950 -- 14. "Your Work Is the Most Important, but without Branches There Can Be No National Work" -- 15. "They Say . . . New York Is Not Worth a D--to Them" -- A Chronology Of The NAACP -- Notes -- Contributors -- Index
N2  - Kevern Verney is associate head of the Department of English and History at Edge Hill University, England, and the author of The Debate on Black Civil Rights in America
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