Inheritors of the Spirit: Mary White Ovington and the Founding of the Naacp
Inheritors of the Spirit: Mary White Ovington and the Founding of the Naacp
John Wiley & Sons | Routledge | 367 pages | 1997 | ISBN: 0471168386 | PDF | 1 mb
John Wiley & Sons | Routledge | 367 pages | 1997 | ISBN: 0471168386 | PDF | 1 mb
Here, at last, is the untold story of the founding of America’s oldest civil rights organization "In its densely researched, sensitively interpreted, and crisply written evocation of her subject’s career, Professor Wedin’s biography opens a wide window onto much of the inner life of the NAACP as it evolves from a virtual one-person show scripted by the incomparable (and sometimes insufferable) Du Bois through the unflappable stewardship of James Weldon Johnson and the manic operational brilliance of Walter White to become, in classic Weberian progression, a well-honed bureaucracy of lawyers, accountants, field secretaries, and lobbyists—and, overwhelmingly, of African Americans…a vibrant, valuable chronicle of an eighty-year dedication to economic, racial, and gender justice." —from the Foreword by David Levering Lewis