| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 91.2

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The Ticket to Freedom: Die NAACP und das Wahlrecht der Afro-Amerikaner (The ticket to freedom: The NAACP and the Afro-American's right to vote). By Manfred Berg. (Frankfurt/Main: Campus, 2000. 499 pp. Paper, €69.00, ISBN 3-593-36534-0.) In German.

The Ticket to Freedom is a first-rate study of the struggle for voting rights waged by the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) over several decades. Manfred Berg has utilized much of the relevant published secondary literature and also made extensive use of archival materials, especially the NAACP collection at the Library of Congress. In addition, he has drawn upon some interviews with key civil rights personnel. Following an introductory section that outlines various forms of political discrimination aimed at African Americans, the book, as concerns the period 1910–1940, proceeds to discuss the establishment and consolidation of the NAACP, the question of voting rights and political discourse, and the topics of voter mobilization and party politics. There then comes a section on the race question and political change, 1940–1955, and finally a section on political reform and social movement, 1955–1970. The subject matter is set in the context of national and international politics.

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