Freedom's Sword: The NAACP and the Struggle Against Racism in America, 1909-1969 (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780415949859)

Freedom's Sword is the first history to detail the remarkable, lasting achievements of the NAACP's first sixty years. From its pivotal role in overturning the Jim Crow laws in the South to its twenty-year court campaign that culminated with Brown v. the Board of Education, the NAACP has been at the forefront of the struggle against American racism. Gilbert Jonas, a fifty-year veteran of the organization, tracks America's political and social landscape period by period, as the NAACP grows to 400,000 members and is recognized by both blacks and whites as the leading force for social justice.

Jonas recounts the historic combined efforts of ordinary citizens and black leaders such as W.E.B. Dubois, James Weldon Johnson, and Thurgood Marshall to root out white-only political primaries, separate schools, and segregated city buses. Freedom's Sword is a vivid and passionately written account of the single most influential secular organization in black America.

Author: Gilbert Jonas
ISBN-10: 0415949858
ISBN-13: 9780415949859
Publisher: Routledge
Language: English
Published: 11/01/2004
Pages: 520
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 2.23lbs
Size: 9.28h x 6.38w x 1.61d

Review Citation(s):
Multicultural Review 06/01/2005 pg. 74
New York Times 02/06/2005 pg. 21