Lift Every Voice

Patricia Sullivan teaches history at the University of South Carolina and is a fellow in the W.E.B. Du Bois Institute at Harvard University. Her books include Days of Hope: Race and Democracy in the New Deal Era and Freedom Writer: Virginia Foster Durr, Letters from the Civil Rights Years. She lives in Washington, D.C.

A major contribution to our understanding of the political and cultural history of African Americans—indeed, of America itself.—Henry Louis Gates Jr., Alphonse Fletcher University Professor, Harvard UniversitySuperb new history . . . elegantly written. A compelling, exhaustively researched account that sweeps across much of the last century.—Jonathan Rosenberg, The Christian Science Monitor[A] vital account of 100 years of foundational civil rights activism.—Publishers Weekly (starred review)An overdue tribute to the organization most responsible for dismantling American apartheid.—Kirkus ReviewsA compelling story . . . includes enough action-packed material for a handful of historical novels, monographs, and biographies, as well as a few movies and a TV series or two.—American Reviews