Overview
Ovington's candid memoir reveals a corageous woman who defied the social restrictions placed on women of her generation, race, and class, and became part of an inner circle that made the decisions for the NAACP in its first forty years. Her actions often brought unwelcome notorietyas when lurid newspaper headlines announced her attendance at a biracial dinner in 1908yet she continued working side-by-side with such colleagues as DuBois, James Wheldon Johnson, and Walter White, and began travelling across the country to help establish NAACP chapters in the Deep South, the Midwest, and California.
Serialized in the Baltimore Afro-American newspaper in 1932 and 1933, Ovington's memoirs are here available for the first time in book form. Black and White Sat Down Together offers an insider's view of a seminal phase in the struggle for civil rights, and a moving encounter with a woman who was hailed in her time as a "fighting saint."
This book title, Black and White Sat Down Together (The Reminiscences of an NAACP Founder), ISBN: 9781558611566, by Mary White Ovington, Ralph E. Luker, Carolyn E. Wedin, published by The Feminist Press at CUNY (September 1, 1996) is available in paperback. Our minimum order quantity is 25 copies. All standard bulk book orders ship FREE in the continental USA and delivered in 4-10 business days.
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