| Book Review | The American Historical Review, 107.5

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Canada and the United States

Mark Robert Schneider. "We Return Fighting": The Civil Rights Movement in the Jazz Age. Boston: Northeastern University Press. 2002. Pp. xi, 476 $35.00.

Students of the civil rights movement have benefited from a profusion of studies published in recent years. Many of these monographs, memories, biographies, and autobiographies have helped depict the role that the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) has played during the twentieth century. Mark Robert Schneider's book adds to this list by providing us with an account of the NAACP's activities to further the civil and political rights of African Americans during the Jazz Age. To accomplish this feat, the NAACP members "fought and won important battles in the streets, courts, press, meeting halls, state legislatures, city governments and Washington lobbies" (p. 4). No doubt the NAACP's job was difficult, dangerous, and challenging. The organization was besieged in the 1920s, not only from without by white governors determined to put it out of business, but also from within by other black organizations who often had sharply different strategies and tactics. . . .

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