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