"We Return Fighting": The Civil Rights Movement in the Jazz Age

by Mark Robert Schneider

Enhanced with illustrations, this book provides a look a the many people and diverse organizations that played a role in the battle for civil rights for African Americans during the 1950s and 1960s.

Genres: History, Race, African American

476 pages, Hardcover

First published November 8, 2001

Reviews

[Lynn · Rating 5 out of 5]

Extra good history of of the Civil Rights Movement in the 1920s. African Americans came back from WWI with higher expectations as citizens of the United States. They experienced war and abroad differently and as more accepted human beings. Life in the US varied from Harlem in NYC and jobs up North with the Great Migration to harsh segregation in the South. This history book discusses how organizations such as the NAACP, set up the groundwork that was able to go farther in the 1950s and 1960s. It discusses lynching and execution in legal proceedings as well as the development of HCBU colleges. Walter White who lived until Brown vs. Education was ruled on the Supreme Court is a major figure as well as WEB DuBois. The Klan which had come back after The Birth of a Nation was released infiltrated the Republican Party in the 1920s after the Democratic Party began less enamored with their dealings with the organization, is a major focus of the NAACP and ACLU in promoting African American rights. This was an amazing book.