In 1903, when white settlement worker Mary White Ovington was 38, she had no sense that there was a "racial problem" in the United States. Six years later, she, W.E.B. DuBois, and 50 others founded the NAACP. Their goals included ending racial discrimination and segregation, and achieving full civil and legal rights for African-Americans-a dream that is still alive today, along with the organization they founded. Ovington's candid memoir reveals a corageous woman who defied the social restrictions placed on women of her ...
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In 1903, when white settlement worker Mary White Ovington was 38, she had no sense that there was a "racial problem" in the United States. Six years later, she, W.E.B. DuBois, and 50 others founded the NAACP. Their goals included ending racial discrimination and segregation, and achieving full civil and legal rights for African-Americans-a dream that is still alive today, along with the organization they founded. Ovington's candid memoir reveals a corageous woman who defied the social restrictions placed on women of her generation, race, and class, nd became part of an inner circle that made the decisions for the NAACP in its first forty years. Her actions often brought unwelcome notoriety-as wehn lurid newspaper headlines announced her attendance at a biracial dinner in 1908-yet she continued working side-by-side with such colleagues as DuBois, James Wheldon Johnson, amd Walter White, and began travelling across the country to help establish NAACP chapters in the deep south, the Midwest, and California. Serialized in the Baltimore Afro-American newspaper in 1932 and 1933, Ovington's memoirs are here available for the first time in book form. Black and White Sat Down Together offers an insider's view of a seminal phase in the struggle for civil rights, and a moving encounter with a woman who was hailed in her time as a "fighting saint."
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Fair. Item in acceptable condition including possible liquid damage. As well answers may be filled in. May be missing DVDs, CDs, Access code, etc. 100%Money-Back Guarantee! Ship within 24 hours! ! This is a ex library book, stickers and markings accordingly.
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Like New in Like New jacket. First Edition, First Printing. Not price-clipped ($19.95 price intact). Published by Feminist Press, 1995. Octavo. Book is like new with very light toning to the top page ends. Dust jacket is like new with light creasing to the top edges. 100% positive feedback. 30 day money back guarantee. NEXT DAY SHIPPING! Excellent customer service. Please email with any questions or if you would like a photo. All books packed carefully and ship with free delivery confirmation/tracking. All books come with free bookmarks. Ships from Sag Harbor, New York.
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Fine in Fine jacket. Book New York: The Feminist Press At CUNY, 1995. First Edition, First Printing. Fine/Fine. Fine first edition in clean unclipped dust jacket. Very clean beige cloth boards with burgundy lettering on cover and spine. No fading, bumping or wear. Binding is tight and square, pages and edges are clean and bright. Clean lavender endpapers-no names, writing or marks. Frontispiece photo of Mary White Ovington in her youth; additional black and white photos at rear of book. Edited and with a Foreword by Ralph E. Luker. Afterword by Carolyn E. Wedin. 168 pages. Clean dust jacket is unchipped, no tears, not price clipped. Enclosed in new archival quality removable mylar cover. "An important contribution to the literature of the African-American freedom struggle."-Coretta Scott King.
