Professional Affiliation

University of South Carolina

Expert Bio

Patricia Sullivan is a professor of history at the University of South Carolina. Her previous book, Lift Every Voice: The NAACP and the Making of the Civil Rights Movement (2009) is a story of how legal brilliance, grass roots organizing, Black culture and institutions, interracial alliances, and a fundamental faith in democracy built and sustained long-term struggles to uproot racism and advance justice. It is also a story of the deep and tangled roots of racism in America.

 

Wilson Center Project

"Struggle toward Freedom: A History of the NAACP."