Long Is the Way and Hard: One Hundred Years of the NAACP

Celebrating its one-hundredth anniversary in February 2009, the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People has been the leading and best-known African American civil rights organization in the United States. It has played a major, and at times decisive, role in most of the important developments in the twentieth-century civil rights struggle. Drawing on original and previously unpublished scholarship from leading researchers in the United States, Britain, and Europe, this important collection of sixteen original essays offers new and invaluable insights into the work and achievements of the association.