Days of Hope
December 03, 2012
http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1496121.Days_of_Hope Days of Hope: Race and Democracy in the New Deal Era by Patricia A. Sullivan …
Patricia A. Sullivan
Specializes in modern United States history, with an emphasis on African American history, race relations, and the history of the Civil Rights Movement. Professor Sullivan teaches courses in twentieth century U.S. history. Areas of interest include African American history; the South since the Civil War; race, reform and politics in the United States; and the history of the Civil Rights Movement. She teaches graduate courses on modern African American history and on civil rights struggles in the twentieth century. She is the author of Days of Hope: Race and Democracy in the New Deal Era; Freedom Writer: Virginia Foster Durr, Letters from the Civil Rights Years; New Directions in Civil Rights Studies, co-edited with Armstead L. Robinson, and Civil Rights in the United States, a 2-volume encyclopedia, coedited with Waldo E. Martin Jr. She and Waldo Martin are editors of the John Hope Franklin Series in African American History and Culture, published by the University of North Carolina Press. Current Activities: Lift Every Voice: The NAACP and the Making of the Civil Rights Movement, my most recent book, was published in August 2009, and I am currently involved in a number of seminars and speaking engagements relating to the book. Based on a decade of research, the book is not an institutional history, in the traditional sense, but rather a history of how a movement dedicated to fighting racial barriers and advancing an inclusive democracy was imagined, debated, organized and sustained across several generations. The history of the NAACP bridges the divide scholars have constructed between “southern” and “northern” movements, providing a national context for analyzing the formative role of race in the American experience and illuminating the challenges faced by those seeking to eliminate the color line and its legacies from American life. The book is being hailed as a work that fundamentally alters our understanding of the civil rights movement by illuminating the foundational role of the NAACP in the struggle for civil rights and racial justice during the twentieth century. I am also currently collaborating with Waldo Martin on an oral history of the Civil Rights Movement, which will be published by the New Press.
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