Death Blow to Jim Crow: The National Negro Congress and the Rise of Militant Civil Rights by Erik S. Gellman

Death Blow to Jim Crow: The National Negro Congress and the Rise of Militant Civil Rights

Erik S. Gellman

368 pages first pub 2012 (view editions)

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During the Great Depression, black intellectuals, labor organizers, and artists formed the National Negro Congress (NNC) to demand a second emancipation in America. Over the next decade, the NNC and its offshoot, the Southern Negro Youth Congress,...

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