mattrohn's review
informative
medium-paced
4.0
This is a really solid institutional history of the National Afro-American Council and other national civil rights organizations that preceded the NAACP from the 1880s through the first decade of the 1900s. It provides a useful framework for thinking about formal legal and political strategies used to fight for rights during and after the collapse of reconstruction and establishing strategies that would later be used more successfully by the organizations of the classical and long civil rights movement. It's definitely very useful for area specialists, especially anyone with an interest in Booker T. Washington, W.E.B. Du Bois, or T. Thomas Fortune, but might be a bit long for a general interest audience, although I'd recommend the introduction for everybody
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