The NAACP and the Black Political Struggle

No organization defines the history of the African American struggle for freedom like the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, commonly known as, the NAACP. Many organizations and movements have come and gone. The NAACP remains.In many local communities in the Jim Crow and the post Jim Crow South, the NAACP has been synonymous with the Black struggle. Sometimes new organizations emerged and coalesced with the NAACP. At other times new organizations emerged in contrast to the NAACP. None have replaced the NAACP and its special historical relationship with the African American community. Below, you will find links to many sources where you can explore for yourself, The NAACP and the Black Political Struggle.

 

National Association for the Advancement of Colored People …

The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) is an African-American civil rights organization in the United States, formed in 1909.

 

 

National Association for the Advancement of Colored People

This conference led to the formation (1910) of the NAACP, headed by eight prominent Americans, seven white and one, William E. B. Du Bois, black.

This channel highlights some of the NAACP activities and messages from the National office and Units from across the nation. Also, be sure to participate in …

 Trials of the Scottsboro Boys – UMKC School of Law

The NAACP, which might have been expected to rush to the defense of the Scottsboro Boys, did not. Rape was a politically explosive charge in the South, and …

 American Experience | Scottsboro: An American Tragedy | People …

A representative of the communists attended the first trial in Scottsboro and immediately … The NAACP’s interest in defending the Scottsboro Boys led to active …

THE CASE OF THE “SCOTTSBORO BOYS”

18 Jul 2007 … Moreover, although the “Scottsboro Boys” the defendants were … the virulently anticommunist NAACP secretary, Walter White, to develop a …

Scottsboro Boys – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

After a demonstration in Harlem, the Scottsboro case … The NAACP also offered to handle the case, …

 

National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP)

NAACP interracial American organization created to work for the abolition of segregation and discrimination in housing, education, employment, voting, and …

 

 

 

Lift Every Voice: The Naacp and the Making of the Civil Rights Movement
Patricia Sullivan, published 2009, 320 pages

The NAACP Crusade Against Lynching, 1909-1950
Robert L. Zangrando, published 1980, 309 pages

The NAACP’s Legal Strategy Against Segregated Education, 1925-1950
Mark V. Tushnet, published 1987, 222 pages

The Abolitionist Legacy: From Reconstruction to the NAACP
James M. McPherson, published 1995, 438 pages

Medgar Evers and the NAACP
Gary Jeffrey, published 2012, 24 pages

Freedom’s Sword: The NAACP and the Struggle Against Racism in America, 1909-1969
Gilbert Jonas, published 2005, 520 pages

In Search of Democracy : The NAACP Writings of James Weldon Johnson, Walter …
Sondra Kathryn Wilson Associate of the W. E. B. Du Bois Institute Harvard University, published 1999, 544 pages

Papers of the NAACP.: Discrimination in the U.S. armed forces, 1918-1955 …
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, Randolph Boehm, Richard M. Dalfiume, published 1989, 45 pages

NAACP Youth and the Fight for Black Freedom, 1936–1965
Thomas Bynum, published 2013, 304 pages

The NAACP, its fight for justice
Minnie Finch, published 1981, 275 pages

In Search of Democracy : The NAACP Writings of James Weldon Johnson, Walter …
Sondra Kathryn Wilson Associate of the W. E. B. Du Bois Institute Harvard University, published 1999, 544 pages

“Arkansas needs leadership”: Daisy Bates, black Arkansas and the NAACP
John Lewis Adams, published 2003, 268 pages

The Chicago NAACP and the Rise of Black Professional Leadership, 1910-1966
Christopher Robert Reed, published 1997, 257 pages

The Crisis
unknown, published unknown, 28 pages

Till Victory Is Won: Famous Black Quotations From the NAACP
Janet Cheatham Bell, published 2002, 208 pages

Summary report and recommendations of the NAACP Task Force Committee on …
NAACP Task Force on Africa, published 1978, 130 pages

J. E. Spingarn and the rise of the NAACP, 1911-1939
Barbara Joyce Ross, published 1972, 305 pages

Race Relations Litigation in an Age of Complexity
Stephen L. Wasby, published 1995, 421 pages

Origins of the Civil Rights Movements
Aldon D. Morris, published 1986, 354 pages

Historical Dictionary of the Civil Rights Movement
Christopher M. Richardson, Ralph E. Luker, published 2014, 662 pages

The Civil Rights Movement in Tennessee: A Narrative History
Bobby L. Lovett, published 2005, 483 pages

Rhetoric, Religion and the Civil Rights Movement, 1954-1965
unknown, published 2006, 1002 pages

Teaching the American Civil Rights Movement: Freedom’s Bittersweet Song
unknown, published 2002, 259 pages

Dissent in Wichita: The Civil Rights Movement in the Midwest, 1954-72
Gretchen Cassel Eick, published 2001, 312 pages

African American Civil Rights: Early Activism and the Niagara Movement …
Angela Jones, published 2011, 281 pages

Women in the Civil Rights Movement: Trailblazers and Torchbearers, 1941-1965
unknown, published 1990, 290 pages

Freedom Rights: New Perspectives on the Civil Rights Movement
unknown, published 2011, 402 pages

Courage to Dissent: Atlanta and the Long History of the Civil Rights Movement
Tomiko Brown-Nagin, published 2011, 608 pages

Brown v. Board of Education and the Civil Rights Movement
Michael J. Klarman James Monroe Professor of Law and Professor of History University of Virginia, published 2007, 296 pages

The Origins of the African-American Civil Rights Movement
Ai-min Zhang, published 2014, 188 pages

Montgomery: The Civil Rights Movement and Its Legacies
Robert Heinrich, published 2008, 351 pages

To Stand and Fight: The Struggle for Civil Rights in Postwar New York City
Martha BIONDI, Martha Biondi, published 2009, 368 pages

 

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The NAACP fights for your civil rights – Stand with us – NAACP – 100 Years of History
http://www.naacp.org/pages/naacp-history
Founding group The NAACP was formed partly in response to the continuing horrific practice of lynching and the 1908 race riot in Springfield, the capital of Illinois and resting place of President Abraham Lincoln.

National Association for the Advancement of Colored People
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naacp
… Jewish newspapers drew parallels between the Black movement out of the South … in October 1919, … of fellowship of American Jews with the NAACP and black

Civil Rights Movement (Twentieth Century) – Encyclopedia of …
http://www.encyclopediaofarkansas.net/encyclopedia/entry-detail.aspx?entryID=4704
The battle to end the white primaries came in 1950 when the Little Rock NAACP branch filed suit to win blackblack political power … Civil Rights Movement

NAACP | National Association for the Advancement of Colored …
http://www.naacp.org/
The mission of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People is to ensure the political, … NAACP is committed to leading the effort alongside …

Political Opportunities and the US Black Movement – SSCC – Home
http://www.ssc.wisc.edu/%7Eoliver/Soc626/Lectures/Political%20Opportunities%20and%20the%20US%20Black%20Movement.doc
Blacks lose all political power. … Black religious icons. 1919 Bloody race riots in many cities, … Lack of political unity among Black movement organizations .

List of books and articles about Black Power Movement
https://www.questia.com/library/politics-and-government/political-science/political-movements/black-power
… the Black Power movement … The 1967 book Black Power: The Politics … openly criticized the fundamentals of Black Power. In 1966, he addressed the NAACP

Primary Sources – History 093/191: The Black Panther Party …
http://researchguides.library.tufts.edu/content.php?pid=94602&sid=707244
Black Panther v. 5 (1970)-v. 20: no. 9 … Part 2 Personal Correspondence of Selected NAACP Officials,1919-1939. … The Black Power Movement.

Down to the Crossroads – Civil Rights, Black Power, and the Meredith March Against Fear – PopMatters
http://www.popmatters.com/feature/179296-down-to-the-crossroads-civil-rights-black-power-and-the-meredith-mar/
At the annual NAACP convention in July 1963, Meredith disparaged the upcoming March on Washington, complaining to a banquet room of youth leaders about “the very low quality of leadership present among our young Negroes, and the childish nature of their activities.” He also called them “burrheads.” In response, delegat…

Free naacp Essays and Papers – 123helpme
http://www.123helpme.com/search.asp?text=naacp
A Contrast of the Black Power Movement and Civil Rights Movement – A Contrast of the Black Power Movementpolitical powerblack woman Rosa Parks (NAACP) …

The Cold War and the Civil Rights Movement
http://www.icl-fi.org/english/wv/957/civilrights-pt2.html
“It is the Negro movement which at the present moment … for black rights into pressure politics for the … black powermovement may become …

Prelude – NAACP: A Century in the Fight for Freedom …
http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/naacp/prelude.html
His power waned as racial violence and … While a professor at Atlanta University he cofounded the Niagara Movement and the NAACP, … http://www.loc.gov/exhibits …

Wiley: African American Voices: A Documentary Reader from …
http://www.wiley.com/WileyCDA/WileyTitle/productCd-1444339400.html
African American Voices: … 4 Program of the NAACP, 1919 94. … 4 Stokely Carmichael Explains Black Power, 1966 227.

The NAACP and the Civil Rights Movement – Oxford AASC – National Association For The Advancement …
http://www.oxfordaasc.com/oa/article/opr/t0005/e0862?p=oamonthAQWuRKXukG77k&d=/opr/t0005/e0862
Whereas many former advocates of nonviolence and integration embraced a militant and separatist black nationalism and heeded the battle cry of “Black Power,” the NAACP stuck to its integrationist program and its approach of working within the system NAACP leaders condemned Black Power as a reverse racism and denounced …

The African American Experience – ABC-CLIO
http://testaae.greenwood.com/doc_print.aspx?fileID=OXCIVR&chapterID=OXCIVR-683&path=books/greenwood
… by declining to serve blacks. Black political influence grew in the … In 1919 the NAACP called … the socialist political movement to replace …

Groups Fighting Voter Suppression Laws – Everyday Citizen
http://www.everydaycitizen.com/2012/10/groups_fighting_voter_suppression_laws.html
The joint report by the NAACP and the NAACP Legal Defense Fund examines scores of legislative proposals, ballot initiatives and voting laws enacted or proposed since the 2008 election.

Harlem Renaissance – Wikipedia
http://en2.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harlem_Renaissance
In 1917 Hubert Harrison, “The Father of Harlem Radicalism,” founded the Liberty League and The Voice, the first organization and the first newspaper, respectively, of the “New Negro Movement“.

Dr. William Edward Burghardt Du Bois, author sociologist, historian, civil rights activist, Pan-Africanist, and editor
http://aalbc.com/authors/dubois.htm
He was a founding member of both the Niagara Movement and the NAACP, and editor of the Crisis–the NAACP literary organ.

New Negro Movement – Wikipedia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Negro_Movement
Another landmark came in 1919, when the poet Claude McKay published his militant sonnet, “If We Must Die,” which introduced a dramatically political dimension to the themes of African cultural inheritance and modern urban experience featured in his 1917 poems “Invocation” and “Harlem Dancer” (published under the pseudo…

Creating Black Americans: African-American History and Its Meanings, 1619 to …
Nell Irvin Painter, published 2006, 458 pages

W. E. B. Du Bois, 1919-1963: The Fight for Equality and the American Century

W.E.B. Du Bois, the Historic Man and Founder of the NAACPW.E.B. Du Bois, the Historic Man and Founder of the NAACP

David Levering Lewis, published 2001, 608 pages

African American Political Thought: Integration vs. separatism, from the …
unknown, published 2003, 319 pages

Greater Than Equal: African American Struggles for Schools and Citizenship …
Sarah Caroline Thuesen, published 2013, 366 pages

Black Freedom Fighters in Steel: The Struggle for Democratic Unionism
Ruth Needleman, published 2003, 305 pages

Schooling Jim Crow: The Fight for Atlanta’s Booker T. Washington High School …
Jay Winston Driskell Jr., published 2014, 320 pages

Encyclopedia of the Harlem Renaissance: A-J
unknown, published 2004, 1341 pages

Harlem Renaissance Lives from the African American National Biography
unknown, published 2009, 595 pages

African-Americans and the Quest for Civil Rights, 1900-1990
Sean Dennis Cashman, Reinhard Schulze, published 1992, 338 pages

Encyclopedia of African-American Civil Rights: From Emancipation to the Present
unknown, published 1992, 658 pages

Transnational Roots of the Civil Rights Movement: African American …
Sean Chabot, published 2012, 211 pages

Mr. Civil Rights: Thurgood Marshall and the NAACP - TrailerMr. Civil Rights: Thurgood Marshall and the NAA
From PBS – Civil rights attorney Thurgood Marshall’s triumph in the 1954 Brown v. Board of Education Supreme Court decision to desegregate America’s public s…

 

The Negro
W. E. B. Du Bois, published 2005, 152 pages

W. E. B. Du Bois, 1868-1919: Biography of a Race
David Levering Lewis, published 1994, 752 pages

The New Negro
Alain Locke, published 2014, 448 pages

Better Day Coming: Blacks and Equality, 1890-2000
Adam Fairclough, published 2002, 400 pages

Ella Baker and the Black Freedom Movement: A Radical Democratic Vision
Barbara Ransby, published 2003, 470 pages

Black Reconstruction in America 1860-1880
W. E. B. Du Bois, published 1935, 746 pages

Africana: The Encyclopedia of the African and African American Experience …
unknown, published 2003, 1135 pages

National Association for the Advancement of Colored People
The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) is an African-American civil rights organization in the United States, formed in

Jackie Robinson
advancing the cause of black people in commerce and industry. Robinson also chaired the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People’s (NAACP) million-dollar

The Civil Rights Movement: 1919-1960s, Freedom’s Story – National …
http://nationalhumanitiescenter.org/tserve/freedom/1917beyond/essays/crm.htm
Not until the late 1940s did the NAACP believe it politically feasible to challenge …. discomfort with Black Power’s separatism and proclamations of self-defense. …. Like the best of the local studies, this book presents an expanded definition of  …

The Communist Party USA and African Americans – Wikipedia, the …
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Communist_Party_USA_and_African_Americans
Early years (1919–1928)[edit]. When the Communist Party USA was founded it had almost no black members. …. After fierce disputes with the NAACP, with the ILD seeking to mount a broad-based political campaign to free the …. as Angela Davis became associated with the most militant wing of the Black Power movement.

The Long Road to Equality for African-Americans | History Today
http://www.historytoday.com/john-kirk/long-road-equality-african-americans
In July 1905, he led 29 black activists in forming the Niagara Movement, taking its name … Local branches mushroomed to a total of 220 in 1919. … Manfred Berg, The Ticket to Freedom: The NAACP and the Struggle for Black Political Integration (University Press of Florida, … Christmas Gift Subscription … Portraits of Power.

Rev. Dr. William Barber, II addresses the NAACP, July 11, 2012Rev. Dr. William Barber, II addresses the NAACP, July 11, 2012
The Reverend Dr. William Barber, II addresses the Plenary Session of the NAACP Convention in Houston, Texas on July 11, 2012. His speech here was the one tha…

 

NAACP: A Century in the Fight for Freedom Founding and Early Years
http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/naacp/founding-and-early-years.html
In response to the Springfield riot, a group of black and white activists, Jews and gentiles, … Among them were veterans of the Niagara Movement (a civil rights group), … to treat the negro on a plane of absolute political and social equality,” and he ….. to withdraw so that Franklin could assign power of attorney to the NAACP.

African American History Timeline: 1901-2000 – The Black Past
http://www.blackpast.org/timelines/african-american-history-timeline-1900-2000
No African American will serve in Congress for the next 28 years. 01-01. Black Politics …. 1910, The first issue of Crisis, the official publication of the NAACP, appears on …. 1919, The Ku Klux Klan is revived in 1915 at Stone Mountain, Georgia, and …. Four years later Elijah Muhammad assumes control of the movement and …

78.02.02: Booker T. Washington and W. E. B. DuBois: The Problem …
http://www.yale.edu/ynhti/curriculum/units/1978/2/78.02.02.x.html
Blacks were left at the mercy of ex-slaveholders and former Confederates, as the …. asked blacks to give up political power, insistence on civil rights, and higher … the Niagara Movement—the direct forerunner of the NAACP—to dissolve by 1910. …. Do modern black leaders agree on the best ways to bring about full equality …

African American Citizenship – Oxford Handbooks
http://www.oxfordhandbooks.com/view/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780195188059.001.0001/oxfordhb-9780195188059-e-1
The Oxford Handbook of African American Citizenship, 1865-Present … and the Poor · African American Politics and Citizenship, 1865–Present: An Overview … Emancipation and Reconstruction: African American Education, 1865–1919 · From the ….. With the rise of the Black Power movement, black leaders retreated from …

Political Opportunities and the US Black Movement
http://www.ssc.wisc.edu/~oliver/Soc626/Lectures/Political%2520Opportunities%2520and%2520the%2520US%2520Black%2520Movement.doc
Blacks lose all political power. … Black migration (cowboys; movements into cities ) … 1919 Bloody race riots in many cities, Whites attacking and killing Blacks. • 1920s NAACP under James Weldon Johnson begins the concerted campaign of …. “Black power,” “Black pride” magnifies themes long present in the culture.

African Americans and World War I
http://exhibitions.nypl.org/africanaage/essay-world-war-i.html
Black southerners faced a host of social, economic, and political challenges that … a social movement propelled by black people and their desires for a better life. … in the economic, political, social, and cultural growth of modern black America. … war on the side of the Central Powers, became public and enflamed pro-war …

Farrakhan NAACPFarrakhan NAACP
Minister Farrakhan addresses the NAACP Unity Summit in 1997 – 9 minutes.

 

The Civil Rights Movement
http://exhibitions.nypl.org/africanaage/essay-civil-rights.html
The maintenance of white power had been pervasive and even innovative, and … Voting districts cut through black neighborhoods to undermine the possibility of political power. … The NAACP’s Legal Defense and Educational Fund, whose members …. reality that could not be addressed by legal protection in the present.

African Americans History & Politics (Shorter thematic overview …
http://www.africanafrican.com/folder12/african%2520african%2520american3/aboloitionists/African%2520Americans%2520SHORTER%2520THematic.pdf
power of the nation. • US Black/White racial definitions a product of slavery: … After 1890 most of White women’s movement is overtly racist …. Blacks lose all political power. … 1919 Wave of bloody race riots: Whites … In 1920s, NAACP and others urge Blacks to …. “Black pride” magnifies themes long present in the culture.

Racial Segregation in the American South: Jim Crow – GIC | Article
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The historical plight of black Americans presents a classic example of what … They became highly resistant to challenge by social movements and even new laws … then the Southern states would have greater political power in relation to the …. People (NAACP) in 1919 titled Thirty Years of Lynching in the United States: …

Free Civil Rights Essays and Papers
http://www.123helpme.com/search.asp%3Ftext%3DCivil%2BRights
In the time of the Civil Rights movement, lots of African American people were … cases, the National Association for the Advancement of Color People (NAACP), were ….. He believes that African Americans should get more political power. ….. homosexuality and at the same time present a view of black culture that was highly …

Attorney General Eric Holder at the NAACPAttorney General Eric Holder at the NAACP
Attorney General Eric Holder addresses the 104th Annual NAACP Convention in Orlando, Florida on 07/16/13 and discusses the Trayvon Martin verdict.

 

History of the NAACP 1 of 2History of the NAACP 1 of 2
Highlights the contributions and efforts made by individuals from 1909 to the presidency to help in the Quest for Black Citizenship in the Americas.

 

National Association for the Advancement of Coloured People
http://spartacus-educational.com/USAnaacp.htm
In 1919 it published Thirty Years of Lynching in the United States: 1889-1918. … of the NAACP claimed that Walter Francis White had too much power in the … It was not too difficult for the NAACP to provide information to show that black and … action and was to have a considerable influence on the civil rights movement.

Timeline of the NAACP – 1909 to 1965 – African-American History
http://afroamhistory.about.com/od/timelines/a/Timeline-Of-The-Naacp-1909-To-1965.htm
The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) is … With more than 500,000 members, the NAACP works locally and nationally to “to “ensure the political, … 1919: The pamphlet, Thirty Years of Lynching in the United States: … Machu Picchu HDR – The Power of Forever Photography/ Vetta/ Getty …

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