Up from Washington: William Pickens and the Negro Struggle for Equality, 1900-1954A political biography of William Pickens (1881-1954) who helped make the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People the Negro's most effective civil rights organization. |
Contents
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Up from Washington 18811914 | 15 |
The New Negro 19141919 | 35 |
The Field Secretary and The Emperor of Africa | 51 |
The Reluctant Republican 19201928 | 75 |
The NAACP Comes of Age 19201931 | 89 |
Pickens the Communists and the Scottsboro Boys | 112 |
New Deal or Old Deal? 19331940 | 135 |
A War on Two Fronts 19341942 | 159 |
The Last Battle 19431954 | 181 |
Notes | 200 |
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Page 9 - Negroes seem to be held in a state of eternal preparedness for a great number of contradictory opinions—ready to accept one type or another depending on how they are driven by pressures or where they see an opportunity.