Freedom's sword : the NAACP and the struggle against racism in America, 1909-1969

"Freedom's Sword" is the first account to detail the remarkable, lasting achievements of the NAACP's first sixty years.

From its pivotal role in overturning the Jim Crow laws in the South to the twenty-year court campaign culminating with "Brown v. the Board of Education", the NAACP has been at the forefront of the struggle against American racism.

Gilbert Jonas, a fifty-year veteran of the organization, tracks America's political and social landscape period by period, as the NAACP grew to 400,000 members and was recognized by both blacks and whites as the leading force for social justice.

Jonas recounts the historic combined efforts of ordinary citizens and black leaders such as W.E.B.

Du Bois, James Weldon Johnson, and Thurgood Marshall to root out white-only political primaries, separate schools, and segregated city buses. "Freedom's Sword" is a vivid and passionately written account of the single most influential secular organization in black America.