NAACP Youth and the Fight for Black Freedom, 1936-1965

This book is very important in the wider context of related scholarship in the modern-day civil rights movement because it will be the first on the youth perspective in the NAACP. . . . I believe that it will be widely used by scholars and the general public.”—Linda Reed, author of Simple Decency and Common Sense: The Southern Conference Movement, 1938-1963

“A recent trend in the historiography of the civil rights movement is the increased understanding of the role that young people played i...