Angela Jones, PhD, is assistant professor of sociology at Farmingdale State College, State University of New York.

Jones is right to point our attention to dialogue and debate as underappreciated facets of early civil rights activism. She does so compellingly with fine and creative use of primary documents (many of which are reproduced in the text or elaborated in an appendix).

• AcknowledgmentsIntroduction1: The Niagara Movement, 1905–1910: An Overview2: A Revisionist Approach to the History of the Civil Rights Movement3: The Making of Black Publics4: Black Publics and Affectual Relations: The Du Bois–Washington Debate Revisited5: Secular Organizing and Networking in the Early Civil Rights Movement6: The Beginnings of a New Negro7: Niagara Women and Political Action8: Electoral Activism and Democracy9: Conclusion: Rethinking the Civil Rights Movement, 1887–1976Appendix: Collective Biography of the Founders of the Niagara MovementNotesSelected BibliographyIndex

Angela Jones, PhD, is assistant professor of sociology at Farmingdale State College, State University of New York.

Jones is right to point our attention to dialogue and debate as underappreciated facets of early civil rights activism. She does so compellingly with fine and creative use of primary documents (many of which are reproduced in the text or elaborated in an appendix).

• AcknowledgmentsIntroduction1: The Niagara Movement, 1905–1910: An Overview2: A Revisionist Approach to the History of the Civil Rights Movement3: The Making of Black Publics4: Black Publics and Affectual Relations: The Du Bois–Washington Debate Revisited5: Secular Organizing and Networking in the Early Civil Rights Movement6: The Beginnings of a New Negro7: Niagara Women and Political Action8: Electoral Activism and Democracy9: Conclusion: Rethinking the Civil Rights Movement, 1887–1976Appendix: Collective Biography of the Founders of the Niagara MovementNotesSelected BibliographyIndex